I had a similar problem, I swapped in a heavier duty pressure plate and had to lengthen the clutch linkage a lot of make it work, then it barely worked kind of like what was described here. I drove it like that, but I could tell something was not right, later I installed a blow proof bell housing and could not make the clutch adjust up at all. One of the guys on here said they installed a Mcleod 16908 adjustable pivot ball on a similar set up. That is what I end up doing, it made the throw out arm pivot further forward, better geometry, and the throw out arm didn’t hit on the bell housing.
I think when I had the stock bell housing it could have used an adjustable pivot ball to correct the problem. I had to use a McLeod on the Lakewood I have now. I think I could have used this to fix it when I had the stock bell housing, probably fix yours also.
https://www.speedwaymotors.com/Adjus...SABEgIvUPD_BwE