Conversion: B-body steering column in an A-body

Well, last night I completed the swap of a B-body power steering column (from a '72 roadrunner, floor shift) into my '73 Swinger with a manual steering box. I wanted a column without the column-shift lever and I didn't want to collapse and extend an original, unmolested A-body power-steering column.

Issues met during the swap:
The steering shaft needed to be shortened just a hair, which was convenient because I manage to accidentally collapse the B-body column during my test-fits (a blessing in disguise?). Also, the lower steering column support plate (underneath the column) and firewall plate needed to be re-used from the original A-body column to mount the B-body column in the correct position.

My only question is this:
If I collapsed the column slightly to make it SHORTER, are there any safety issues that I am overlooking, or will this setup work fine? The way I look at it, the column is pre-collapsed, so any front-end collisions that send the steering box toward the driver will already allow the steering shafts to collapse in on each other.
Thanks all for viewing.

-Mike