Cutting for the MPI SC Ki?

What are you guys using for a cutting tool?

I used a sawzall with a small jigsaw type blade and a angled die grinder

Die grinder and a shop vac to suck up the aluminum chips as you're die grinding.

Here's a couple of pictures of the cutting on an RX-1.





Also on an RX-1 or Warrior with reverse you have to relocate the beeper for the reverse. I had emailed these exact pictures asking them to add them to their instructions as I was the first one to install a supercharger on a RX-1 with reverse. You can see how I relocated the beeper.

Srxspec said:

Die grinder and a shop vac to suck up the aluminum chips as you're die grinding.

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Ditto!

I used masking tape and taped in towels to catch the shavings, then used an 1/8" drill bit to slowly drill tightly spaced overlapping holes along the lines, then snapped the piece out with vise-grips, and finished it up by hand with a half-round file... It's more work initially but you get the time back because there is little to no cleanup... Buzzing the material out with any type of high-speed tool creates a bazillion little pieces of aluminum that cannot be accounted for... All it would take is one of these bazillion little pieces of aluminum to cause a problem... Remote, yes, but there is a posibilty one could interfere with a valve seat, ring groove, short an electrical connector, etc... The extra effort it took me was well worth the piece of mind it gave me... I keep my engine bay immaculate so if conducted a post-ride inspection and observed an aluminum shaving of any size there would have to be a problem somewhere and I would conduct a much deeper inspection... If there are already shavings floating around in there I have no idea if there is an impending problem I should be concerned about... Overkill, for most, is standard operations for me.

I taped plastic over, under, and in everything when I did it! LOL! The shop vac does actually do a nice job to get most of the aluminum chips and with all the plastic over everything I didn't have any aluminum in the engine bay.

I just cut it what the Hell its only money if it goes down. Kidding! I did the same as Ulmers took some time to cover it up.

Back up alarm?? I smashed that with a hammer the first time I heard it!!!

ALARM