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engine lift plate

Did anyone ever use an engine lift pate bolted to an aluminum intake manifold . Im guessing there is a good chance that you could break the intake manifold.

engine lift plate

Reply #1 –
It will be fine,guys do it all the time.

engine lift plate

Reply #2 –
Anybody else do this?

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Reply #3 –
My curiosity is will it hold the engine and tranny together?  I assume the tranny has to seperate and come out from below?  About to do the same thing.
1987 TC

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Reply #4 –
As long as you thread the plate mounting bolts or studs all the way in and the threads in the intake are in good shape I can't see why not. I'd still take the tranny out from underneath though - just because it's easier to wrangle the engine out by itself than it is with 4 feet and 250 pounds of ballast hanging off its arse
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Reply #5 –
Yep engine plate works fine. I just used one to pull out the engine in mine.


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I'd still take the tranny out from underneath though - just because it's easier to wrangle the engine out by itself than it is with 4 feet and 250 pounds of ballast hanging off its arse


Yep. Me and a buddy spent Friday trying to get a roller 302 and a C4 into his originally I6 '66 Mustang. Not bloody fun when they're bolted together :hick:
88 Thunderbird LX: 306, Edelbrock Performer heads, Comp 266HR cam, Edelbrock Performer RPM intake, bunch of other stuff.

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Reply #6 –
Foose did it on one of those series where he took that stang and dropped a boss into it.  IT still had the tranny on also. 

Anyway, im like you , seems kinda sketchy doing that.  That bad part on that show foose was doing, they only used two carb bolts,,lol  Looked funny and scary as heck if you ask me.

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Reply #7 –
I've done it over and over.
'88 Sport--T-5,MGW shifter,Trick Flow R intake,Ed Curtis cam,Trick Flow heads,Scorpion rockers,75mm Accufab t-body,3G,mini starter,Taurus fan,BBK long tube headers,O/R H-Pipe, Flowamaster Super 44's, deep and deeper Cobra R wheels, Mass Air and 24's,8.8 with 3.73's,140 mph speedo,Mach 1 chin spoiler,SN-95 springs,CHE control arms,aluminum drive shaft and a lot more..

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Reply #8 –
After my last incident with an allumnium intake, I wouldn't. Just me though.

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Reply #9 –
Some yes and some no.....
 (84 fila) What was the incident, did the intake break.

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Reply #10 –
As stated above, as long as your threads in the intake are good and you run the bolts all the way down, you will have no problem.  I have done it a few times with the 5.0 on a few cars and never with even the hint of trouble.  If you do it right, there is no concern.  I made a bracket of my own to sit on top of the intake out of two pieces of angle iron (welded together) so I could use all four upper intake/lower intake holes and put multiple holes on the backbone of the angle iron toward the center so I could adjust for balance when pulling and installing the engine.
 

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Reply #11 –
Quote from: JrP;145540
Some yes and some no.....
 (84 fila) What was the incident, did the intake break.


:beatyoass: Putting new carb studs in with a carb spacer, the intake cracked right along one of the studs. Went to remove and a cunk about the size of a quarter came out. I blame me, but it was an old allumnium intake too. Just don't trust allumnium anymore. Too bad I'm getting a new allumnium intake on saturday hopefuly:hick: