A/C and heater box removal

I going to be pulling the old wore out 318 in my 73 dart and replacing it with a rebuilt 360. The A/C doesn't work and the heater constantly blows hot air into the cabin no matter what, so I just want to get rid of it. I also want to get rid of as much stuff under the hood as possible so I can show off my aluminum headed 360 lol. I know there are two hoses that run from the water pump through the firewall and I assume to the heater box, can I remove all that? or do I run into issues with the actual functioning of the water pump? A/C I assume is easy to remove. This car will never be driven in the cold and on hot days. I just run with open windows anyways so in reality all that stuff is just in the way, also its more of a weekend car anyways.