No offense taken, nobody can debate that it's hanging way out because...it is!

I think they actually look cleaner in stock form with no distributor at all, coil on plug '06 and later or 6.1, etc. That doesn't apply to ones like my '03 though, with the crossover wires running all over the place....

Seems like the cap area of the dist. and the head + valve cover are all trying to occupy the same area. Nowhere to go but up I guess? I think the distributor comes from an AMC but would have to check.