5.9 stroker build

Kern Dog said
To those members considering an engine swap in the future....
P L E A S E consider doing the Body drop method of removal and installation. It saves time, effort and avoids damage.
Imagine for a moment having the engine right in front of you completely unobstructed....no fenders, hood, firewall or core support blocking access. Headers can go in easily. Whatever difficulties you may have with aligning the pulleys and bracketry is now easier to reach.
You can do this with a car lift or without.
This project was only the second time this car lift has been used for this. The other time was in 2022 with a Charger.
You can do this with an engine hoist lifting up the front of the car. If you can weld, you can make a U shaped bracket that attaches to the front bumper mounts in the frame rails. If you can't weld, there are companies that make the lifting bracket.
When you do the body drop, the transmission is installed with the engine which speeds things up a LOT. It makes wrestling a transmission up and in the car a thing of the past.

Agree it is very easy to do.

Make that front lift bar with some low buck angle and square tube. Two forward legs and the crossbar with bolts. Lift from the center of crossbar.

Don't make the mistake of putting the forward legs on and stapping to each and lifting. People have pinched in the front rails doing that. Has to be a vertical dead lift from under each leg.