DON'T FUCK WITH THE TRANNY MAN.

Seriously. If you try pulling with the tranny in there and you get the engine out without it, great. If not, you can always reconnect the bell housing bolts and try taking the tranny with it.

Just make sure you pull the crank pulley (UDP or OEM) your first time, and have a cherry picker/hoist ready. Undo your motor mounts, remove the header (or lower half if you're still stock) and then undo the bolts that hold the block to the bell housing and the four bolts on the flex plate. VERY EASY TO DO!

Get under the car and drop the oil pan. If you look to the tranny, you will see a little plate that is held on by the clutch actuator and a single 10mm bolt. Remove them and the plate comes off, giving you perfect access to the four flex plate bolts. Take out the starter and have a friend with a pry bar manually advance the flex plate until you can see the bolts you need to get to. Take them out. After this, when the engine is ready to come out, you just need to wiggle it back and forth a bit to clear the bellhousing on the tranny side and a couple vac lines on the fender. YOU CAN DO IT. If not, just lower it back down, install the bolts that hold the block to the bell housing and get under the car with a pry bar and begin using every curse word you know (and some you'll make up) trying to pry the damn CVs out of the diff. Get ready to buy another 3 bottles of $15/bottle tranny fluid too. It stinks like ass, and will get everywhere. You have to drain the tranny for that one.

If you're ready to pull it with the tranny, then trying without and ending up having to pull it with the tranny isn't such a bad thing, now is it?

"By three methods we may learn wisdom:
First, by reflection, which is noblest;
Second, by imitation, which is easiest;
and third by experience, which is the bitterest." - Confucius