440 will not fit in duster ? ?? need help assap doing motor now !!!

I had my front end up on jack stands when we tried to put my engine and transmission in together. I ended up lifting the rear up just as high as the front and pointing the tailshaft down at the ground (scary) as we lowered it in. We left my torsion bars and steering linkage alone.

We installed the driver side header (schumachers) with the engine out of the car thinking we would have room to install the passenger side while the motor is in the car, we turned out to be wrong there. We thought it would give us more room to work with while installing the engine.

We supported the tail shaft with a jack stand under the car while we concentrated on the engine mounts, the transmission mount/cross member was completely removed. The driverside was the most challenging, I didn't clearance the K-frame enough and had trouble getting a wrench on the nut and washer setup of the schumacher mounts.

The pinchweld at the transmission tunnel was "clearanced" with a "BFH". Basically rolled the pinch weld in to the transmission tunnel to give the transmission more room and ease in the installation.

Once we the engine mounts were addressed we tried to install the passenger side header.... I am using studs in my heads so I had an issue fitting the header in between the the cylinder head and the inner fender well. We ended up loosening the passenger side motor mount (the transmission mount is still un-done) and lifting the motor up out of the passenger side mount. Slipped the header on to the studs and set it back down.

The transmission mount was a job of its own. I had sand blasted and cleaned mine, Ground off some of the original welds and re-enforced it in a few places. I dont know if it was damaged or warped in the first place but it took some persuasion to get it to fit under the car again.

I hope this has helped.