[cobrashoch]

Simple - I weighed it by weighing the car both before and after pulling the engine, while I was mocking up the car. I used certified truck scales at two places and did this procedure twice. Believe me I did a bunch of mockup pulling of that damn engine, and it was dry. That was the high number too btw. A couple of readings were a few pounds lighter. I also used Blue Thunder Chevy port heads and I believe they weigh a few more lbs. than the Ford "b" and "c" head. Don't know anything about the "a' head or the Boss head. The Edelbrock head is lighter than all of em' though.
As a aside, I know too that a FE built the same way as a 385 will weigh about + or - a few lbs, about 100lbs lighter, dependent on the castings used for both engines. My blower DIVE iron production 385 block was not ground and sanded on to reduce weight either. On a 385 you can loose about 25lbs that way, don't know about a FE. I too hear and see lots of stupid stuff about engine weights. Did you know that a iron 426 Hemi is about 60lbs lighter than a iron 396/375hp Chevy? Tis' true because I weighed both. I kinda look at that stuff and file it in my memory. That's also why I get a good laugh at the smallblock/bigblock weight thing. LOTS of iron smallblocks out there that weigh more than my engine, let alone most Cobra FE's. cobrashock