yeah unless you are super prone to sides on SD i see no reason for such a conservative dosing. If you're going to cycle you may as well cycle. It's like you're trying to swim without getting wet. It doesn't work like that.
I am not saying to run SD crazy but think about it most people dose 20mg ED which is 14 caps a week you're suggesting 3.5 caps a week which is 1/4 of what most people are doing... i dunno what you expect from that... Very mildly improved recovery, minor pumps/hardness, some anti-catabolic effects. Numerical gains probably won't be very noticable.
If u dose EOD i would just do 20mg the whole time. I dunno about the clomid on cycle i think it may lessen the shutdown but i wouldn't worry so much about the shutdown from 20mg EOD that's not so bad.