For the most part, your piston doesn't care which way it is orientated. Unless you have a funky top on your piston to match the profile of the head. It's all the orientation of the ring pins. JLO's are in the front because of the extra wide intake port. Most others are in the back because it's just normal port layout. As long as you have sufficient area for the ring gaps to be supported, you should be ok. People have changed a lot of things to make mod ports work. Move pins, cut new ring lands for the rings and add new pins, run one ring, you name it.