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The Engine can only be taken out from below correct?
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I am 90% sure that it can only be taken out from below.
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Nope, your both wrong. The engine and tranny can be taken out from above.
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It can be, especially if you take it out piece by piece (bnoon?). Given the ability to lift the car off the subframe, it is much easier to drop it from below.
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It can be taken out the top without disassembly and with the transmission still attached. It's tight but it can be done. If you have the means, out the bottom is the way it was designed to come out.
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much more fun to take it out from the top. Me and j-lab got mine out from the top with trans in 4hrs. that was with beer and lunch break
Micah
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If you have a way to do it safely, out the bottom is the way to go. Out the top is almost as easy though, requiring not much more time at all. More time from out the top comes mostly from having to disassemble the strut assemblies to be able to pull the axles from the tranny. Not difficult, just a bit more time involved.  FWIW, do not separate the engine/trans to get it out the top. The clearance is much more difficult to clear the clutch assembly past the trans than it is to pull the entire engine/trans combo and separate it outside of the vehicle. My first time I had the engin torn down to short block, lifted it out by hand to save money on renting a cherry picker. Wrong thing to do, but hey, I leanred from it! 
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I dropped everything to the floor so I wouldn't have to mess with the struts/springs etc. I lowered the hole dang thing, subframe/engine/trans/struts/springs all attached. Then slid it from underneath and then removed the trans from the subframe/engine, then engine, left subframe sitting on floor with the strus/springs still attached. Just have to make the car little higher to make room for it all to slide out but it wasn't that hard. Especially for someone like me who has NEVER done anything like that before.
Are you needing to do this?
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Yup pulling it out for the 3.0 Swap
Silver 98 SVT Contour E0 #4124 (Currently on Life Support) Built 11/97 Bought 1/98 Eibach Pro Kit \ Koni \ Niche Pultec 17"x7.5 \ Yokohama Parada 215/17/40 \ Shaved Wheel wells / Brembo-KVR Cross Drilled Rotors / KVR Carbon Fibre Brake Pads / Aeroquip SS Brake Lines \ 21mm Rear Progress Tech. (Powder Coated Black) \ Superchips Auto Meter Pro Shift Light \ Extrude Honed \ Stripped Resonater Street Scene Free Flow Exhaust \ Injen Technology Prototype CAI \ Weapon R filter \ Hose Techniques Red Kit \ Folia Tec Red Caliper Paint \ MOMO (shift knob, pedals, seat belt pads) \ Clarion, Sounstream, Kicker \ Optima Red Top Battery \ SVT Emblem Mods Jet Hot Coatings (25-30% Cooler) on Upper Intake Manifold, Sho Shop Y-Pipe, Cat, and CAI "Come Out...Come Out Where Ever You Are" http://www.geocities.com/speeddemons19
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