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Originally Posted by daveshilling
As all projects do, plans for mine have grown. I decided to go with the Flatout Engineering C4 IFS, and I've gathered the necessary Corvette parts.
I got stalled with the crossmember rivets and planned to burn them out, but I figured out a safer way to deal with these...
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EVERYONE here (but me) had a helluva time getting factory rivets out. I ground the heads off completely flush then whacked them 3-4 times with a like diameter punch and a BFH. Hard part was seeing the rivet when all the metal was fresh ground.
Grinding the head off from below was a little painful until we covered ourselves head to toe with clothes/towels. But after that, it went fine. (Mostly my brother-in-law did the grinding and I did the whacking from above!
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I used the big diameter punch in about the middle of the picture.