Oil filter, bellhousing brace conflict

Every early A body V8 car that I have ever seen had a 90 degree adapter from the factory. There is a small rib on top of the adapter, and a rib on the side of the block. If you line those 2 ribs up, the filter will be ever so slightly pointed downward. That is how I'm aiming the adapter on my 65 Barracuda's 273. Never seen any braces on an early A V8 stick car. The filter adapter always pointed the filter backwards, and never down. It can't point down because it would hit the torsion bar. There ain't room to cuss a cat in an early A engine bay! LOL :BangHead: :realcrazy: