Hood Clearance

I don't know if this helps with your question about possible interference with A/C but here's a couple pictures of my engine with an Eddy Air-gap on it. It looks like to me there's plenty of room up front for the compressor as the coolant crossover looks pretty much the same on the air-gap as I remember a performer being but looking at your pics I think I see a bracket coming off the compressor on the rear pass side going back to the intake and if that's the case I don't see a spot on the air-gap to bolt it down. I can't say positively but judging by pics I think it'll work as long as you can work around the bracket issue.

If you'd like I can take some closer more detailed pics of it tomorrow and post them