Yeah. Forget any FAA PIC time under the hood training for the IR etc. None of that counts. Get your IR - THEN fly another 50 hours. Do NOT fly with an instructor as dual received will not be recognised as PIC. You just need to fly under Instrument flight RULES, whether you have a hood on or not or a safety pilot is irrelevant. Log it as IFR and fly some Airways and approaches to legitimise it all and you should be OK. The whole safety pilot thing is a red herring. I fly IFR every time I go to work, 90% of it in clear blue skies.