Best Way to Remove Stock Exhaust Bracket?

[go high fast]

So it looks like the exhaust bracket has to come out to make room for the turbo and oil tank. Lots of rivets that are hard/impossible to get to with the drill and the steel rivets are hard to whack off with the old hammer and chisel.

Any recommendations of the best way to remove it?

I am thinking of cutting it down with a cutting wheel using either the Dremel or the angle grinder. This would actually allow me to preseve a bit of the exhaust bracket in case i ever go back to non turbo setup and want the bracket to support the silencer. Also wondering if these rivets support anything else in this area of the bulkhead in addition to the exhaust bracket.

What do you guys think?

I appreciate the help!! Thanks

 

[Goinboardin]

When i got my sled that bracket was cut up, but poorly. I used a cut off wheel to cut it down more cleanly, then this fall when I had my plastics all off I drilled out all the rivets and got rid of the remains of the bracket. The rivets don't seem to be supporting anything else, but I don't remember that well. If a few of them are supporting/securing something just put a replacement rivet in once the bracket is off.

 

[BILTIT]

Did you buy a turbo kit or pieceing it together?