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Post By My427stang
09-14-2024, 12:39 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Omaha,
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Cobra Make, Engine: ERA, 496 Tunnel Wedge
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Pulling a 427 out of a 4 speed ERA
Anyone have any tricks? I do a lot of FEs and a lot of Mustangs. Pretty open under there but it does not have a removable transmission crossmember and doesn't really look like the engine can go too far forward. Thinking maybe leaving the tranny and bell hanging and jack it up as I high as I can and lide it off the input
Headers, etc, all easy and done, just doesn't look like I have the forward clearance to get the tranny tail to drop if I do it as a unit.
Thanks!
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1994 ERA Cobra, 452 side oiler, C5AE-F, Tunnel Wedge
70 Mustang Fastback, EFI 489 FE TKO-600, too much to list
71 F-100 4x4 EFI 461 FE restomod
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09-14-2024, 12:47 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Grand Rapids,
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Cobra Make, Engine: FFR Challenge Car, RDI aluminum 427w
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Can you pull the engine / trans forward and the up? A little bit each way at a time. An additional body or two would help.
I've done this in and out on my previous Superformance cars. Not sure how the ERA chassis is different. This also seems to work on the Factory Five cars.
Jim
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09-14-2024, 01:11 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Clayton,
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Cobra Make, Engine: ERA 838
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The tunnel comes out of ERAs for easy transmission removal then pulling the engine is easy.
Just remove the seats and the trans tunnel will come right out. The trans is removed from the top. If using a cherry picker you will have to come in from the side instead of the front.
John
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09-14-2024, 01:41 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2002
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Cobra Make, Engine: ERA, 496 Tunnel Wedge
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Grubby
The tunnel comes out of ERAs for easy transmission removal then pulling the engine is easy.
Just remove the seats and the trans tunnel will come right out. The trans is removed from the top. If using a cherry picker you will have to come in from the side instead of the front.
John
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Well that is awesome info. Thanks! Completely changes things 
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1994 ERA Cobra, 452 side oiler, C5AE-F, Tunnel Wedge
70 Mustang Fastback, EFI 489 FE TKO-600, too much to list
71 F-100 4x4 EFI 461 FE restomod
Bullock's Power Service, LLC
Concours and performance engines by appointment only
https://www.facebook.com/BullocksPowerService
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09-14-2024, 02:01 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Cobra Make, Engine: ERA #732, 428FE (447 CID), TKO600, Solid Flat Tappet Cam, Tons of Aluminum
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Disconnect the transmission, leave the bellhousing on, just go straight in with your lift and here's a pic of a friend's ERA having it dropped in with a Kubota.
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09-14-2024, 02:33 PM
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Cobra Make, Engine: ERA, 496 Tunnel Wedge
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Quote:
Originally Posted by patrickt
Disconnect the transmission, leave the bellhousing on, just go straight in with your lift and here's a pic of a friend's ERA having it dropped in with a Kubota.
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Crap, I have a Bobcat 
Thanks
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1994 ERA Cobra, 452 side oiler, C5AE-F, Tunnel Wedge
70 Mustang Fastback, EFI 489 FE TKO-600, too much to list
71 F-100 4x4 EFI 461 FE restomod
Bullock's Power Service, LLC
Concours and performance engines by appointment only
https://www.facebook.com/BullocksPowerService
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09-14-2024, 10:18 PM
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Location: Gilroy,
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Cobra Make, Engine: SPF 2291, Whipple Blown & Injected 4V ModMotor
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These guys R&R’d a lot of engines in the original cars using this approach;
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Help them do what they would have done if they had known what they could do.
Last edited by eschaider; 09-16-2024 at 04:36 PM..
Reason: Spelling & Grammar
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09-16-2024, 11:43 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2002
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It's out and apart, I have to tell you, that was the easiest engine removal I have ever done short of a dyno.
Looked like I didn't have room, but I jacked the tranny up a bit and lifted it right out, cherry picker on the side. Easy as pie, the old girl wants to be fixed I think 
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1994 ERA Cobra, 452 side oiler, C5AE-F, Tunnel Wedge
70 Mustang Fastback, EFI 489 FE TKO-600, too much to list
71 F-100 4x4 EFI 461 FE restomod
Bullock's Power Service, LLC
Concours and performance engines by appointment only
https://www.facebook.com/BullocksPowerService
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09-25-2024, 02:49 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2021
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Great job!!
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