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You drop the engine a few inches. You remove the intake plenum, but you do not remove the engine.
6-8 hours labor for me.... waxing included.
Not bad considering it's around $700 in labor from what others have said. I too would spend a day to save $700. It looks like it's a job of patience but not terribly difficult.