[Dana E.]

If your engine hoist has 55" from the ram to the end of the boom, you'll have enough room to install the engine and trans from the front as a unit on the SPF. If all the casters swivel on your hoist, you can install the engine and trans as a unit from the side. That's how I installed the engine/trans in my other Cobra. In either case, if you have the car on jackstands, you won't have a problem with the legs of the hoist running into the tires.

Installing the trans first is an option as well. You could leave the driveshaft connected, bolt the trans to the crossmember, then hold the trans in position with a transmisson jack or a floor jack. The fun part, with the engine swinging off the end of the hoist, and the trans flopping around on a floor jack, is getting the trans stabbed into the clutch without knocking the throwout bearing assembly out of place. You'll want someone to give you a hand for that operation.

If you install the transmission after the engine is in place, it looks like that would be pretty easy from interior of the car if you had someone to help you, or you could use your engine hoist and some tiedowns as a sling to lower the trans into place from inside the car.