Installation

Now we get down to the nitty gritty! Things turned out easier than we thought... until those dang brackets started tripping us up...

Astro rubber isolator bolts to the frame; the motor mount is just a steel bracket.

Piece of exhaust pipe visible to the right (vertical) was used to tilt the engine using a floor jack underneath. The V8 slid in easier than the V6 came out! Notice plenty of room in the engine bay.

V8 going in. It's offset several inches to the passenger side.

The exhaust manifold looks close to the frame, but the engine is just sitting there temporarily with no motor mounts.

That's all so far, until the next two rolls of film get developed and scanned! Lots of bracket building coming up...