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Originally posted by James
Huh? The whole engine is aluminum! You haven't lifted many engines have you?
Since you're not installing it into a car but merely up a couple feet to get onto a stand:
you can use many of the bolts- I even used the alternator bracket and it held. Just choose at least a 12mm bolt to use and you'll be okay. Don't be scared.
Lift the engine up an inch and place something under if you're worried. If it falls within 10 seconds then, yeah, you chose a bad lifting point. But if it holds- then it just plain will hold.
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There are plenty of better points to attach to than the intake plenum. You can take out some of the bolts on the exhaust side (or put in bolts of your own into the threaded holes already there). The same goes for the intake side. I was just saying not to simple pass a chain through the intake mani, and hoist it up by that. That bitch is fragile and can snap if the motor is jolted.
Eric