Could Hood have become a fast battleship?

What would removing Hood's torpedo tubes have allowed during construction?

A serious redesign could have traded speed for protection and subdivision, making Hood closer to a fast battleship.

The saved torpedo weight would not simply translate into another gun battery because the ship would need structural redesign to use it effectively. Accepting roughly 30 knots would create room for more armour and stronger internal subdivision. Those changes would move Hood away from cruiser-style survivability and toward a true fast-battleship standard. A more radical twelve-gun arrangement is possible only as part of a much larger reconstruction.