8 singles on a 1973 340

See I don't want to do the 6x2's b/c I've heard that it leaves some cylinders starved and i don't want that. 2x4 is just to generic for me. I don't have a hemi so i can do 4x4. 8x2 would work but i don't like the elongate-ness of the two's. I like blowing peoples minds so... I know how to Tig but getting the welder and everything. I'll talk to a guy. I think he knows a guy that might be able to cast one for not too much. The guy he knows made a set of custom 400 pontiac heads for 300 each.
Thanks though.
If you got any other ideas i'm listening. Any thought is progressive.