Glad to see you hittin back at these guys. The big block will work fine in the little early cars if everything is right and the details paid attention to.
problem is that the magazines back in the day and the freaking oldheads back then (guess at 52 i'm an oldhead now..lol) spit out garbage information like a bigblock won't fit in an early a, it won't handle, it is a waste of time..bla...bla...bla... and way too many people over the years took it as gospel...