Intake distribution issues

Question for the intake gurus, sorry if it's a long post guys.
Engine I'm working with is 360 60 over, stoke stroke with 273 rods and speed tec pistons, 11.2 comp. Cam is hr 530/536 230/234@50 110lsa, Heads are promaxx cnc'd and milled to 60cc with 2.08 1.60 valves. M1 intake unported. Holley sniper efi.

Problem I was having was once around 2k and up afr was going crazy and missing and popping thru exhaust under light excelleration or even steady cruising unless you went from idle to full throttle then it would rip. Tried many other things to remedy but didn't help at all. So on a recommendation from my tuner i started adding spacers to increase plenum. Well that fixed my issues amazingly car runs like it should.

issue I'm at now is this intake needed 2.5" of spacers added to run correctly. Currently the sniper tb is above my hood line and into my hood scoop its so tall, and to me it visually looks terrible when I open the hood aswell.
Does anyone have any ideas I could try to remedy the issues and keep the m1 intake?
Also I've been looking at other intakes I see lots of people on here recommend air gap or a victor 340 not so sure I need a super victor. Any help or recommendations are welcome guys. Thanks