Lifting engine for installation
I saw this discuss in great length some were else. Not to step on any ones toes but I would never use those carb adapters to lift an engine. They are hella convenient, but the bolts are way to small of a size to hold that much weight. They were sized only to keep a little carb bolted down, not hang an engine from. Working in the aviation field you learn allot about the yield strength of bolts and 4 of that size of bolt, especially screwed into aluminum is way under what is needed to suspend an engine in space. I wish I could remember where I saw this on line, but there must have been three pages of people who tried to use the carb plates only to have there engine drop to the ground. I remember that one of them broke just as he was pushing it over the car. One engine crashing threw the nose of a old corvette. I know that many people lift them that way but I would not take the chance. If it were me I would get some longer bolts and use the good old front and back intake bolt locations. I use 4 of them and an engine leveler. No worries of striping anything that way.