Comes out the front. Disassemble nose, pull the oversized ford plenum off, snap about 100 hard plastic vacuum lines as you try to unhook them, move 8 fuggin miles of plumbing and things, pop both front brackets off the motor (alt/air pump and ac/ps pump) then you can actually pop it out pretty easily. We short chained it and that part went well.

Still wanna smack the dumb engineer that put studs on Ford torque converters. Makes it that much tougher.