Scat Crank Repair

Tell me more about this stuff. I have two PTC converters. One has washers welded on the c0nverter lugs and it will go into the crank/flexplate and mate right up with no gap. The other converter has about a 0.070 gap between the vert and the flexplate, and it has no washers. That vert was used on an adapter to allow a A-fuel crank to be used with the flexplate in an automatic. It is now back back at PTC and I have not heard back from them. The issue is the ARP flexplate bolt heads contact the vert front side, not the snout bottoming out.

I cannot see pulling the vert/flexplate together that much and bending it. Is this gap you guys speak of what you see when the vert is all the way into the trans and the engine/flexplate is bolted up, with the 4 vert bolts yet to be put in? I am planning to mate my 540 and tranny together before I stuff it into the car, hopefully soon.