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M!ke, I'm with Mark on the engine removal--its straightforward to bring it out with the ZF. Removing the jackshaft first is necessary. Take special care with the oil pan, at least if its original, even consider getting cheap repro pan during the process of removal and transport. The original pan (with oil temp sender and pointer) is a neat thing to have.

You may locate the gullwing mounting before removal--meaning, use a very small drill bit and drill a hole at the spine, so you can locate the position easier when putting back on. Getting a good fit of the engine covers is not easy. See picture on 8ma1046.

  After that, the good news is that it is all Ford, and if leave it all in original tune you might be happy forever. I installed Pertronix ignition modules in 8ma1046 and 1076--I am not a believer in colorful/fancy ignition, and only went back with more hydraulic cam (which just requires screw in studs, but keep the high compression heads), and polished and balanced the rods (and lord knows why, its not like I'm going to be speed shifting at 6000 rpm...).  A roller cam and the stroker kit are not going to hurt the value of the car, and just may help the driveability. But more than that may be a 'stay busy/spend money' trap,  a Tesla 3 is still going to be faster and you may just be happy having the car in great tune again... I would personally work to keep as many external pieces in place as possible, even including the original headers.

Geez, your car has 52 year old paint and the engine has never been out? Pretty awesome...Lee

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