Nex, you are absolutely right. Im sure everyone knows that offset head dowels are available for the SBC and BBC engines, as well as others, so im sure there would be benefits to shifting the head to help this problem on these engines. You just need to find a compromise between keeping the additional grinding and clearancing for pushrods and water passages covered to a comfortable "happy medium", so it will be a benefit instead of just an exercise in futility. Im sure it could be helpful to try it, and might even see some surprising results from it.
