Ken Powell wrote:

Hi Paul,
Sorry I haven't gotton back to you on how I removed the exhaust
splitters while retaining the SS port liner.  BTW, it helps if you are
looking at one of these while I try to describe the procedures that I
performed for this task.  1st, take a BIG screw driver and break out the
'wings' as seen from the outside of the port.  Just bend them a few
times and they will break as the port liner is quite brittle.  Next,
grab the die grinder, goggles and ear muffs and grind off any remaining
portions of the 'wings' until you reach the raised area of the floor of
the port liner.  

At this point I had zero luck with grinding this raised
area out.  Out of frustration, I took the BIG screwdriver again and
inserted it between the rotor housing lining and the exhaust port liner
(as seen from the inside of the rotor housing) and moved the raised
floor of the exhaust port liner up and down until it too broke.  This
left a gap of ~ 1/8" between the exhaust port liner and the chrome liner
of the rotor housing.  I hope that this gap is OK.  I noted that the
raised port floor also had a gap next to the rotor housing liner, so I
think it will be acceptable.  I worked on this about 2.5 hrs.

Ken Powell

 
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