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Old 01-02-2005, 01:47 PM
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Talking Some pics of !hvac and !airbag

here are some pics of my poor torn-up car
Easy access to #6 and #8


Heat...We don't need no stinkin' heat


Passenger Airbag...gone!!!


Aluminum HVAC blockoff plate


Plate installed


Look at all that room now


Partial reassembly

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Old 01-02-2005, 02:15 PM
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About how long did it take you to do this? Did you wiegh what you took out?? If so how much?
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Old 01-02-2005, 02:28 PM
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Are you retaining the A/C? How much weight savings?
Old 01-02-2005, 02:32 PM
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no...ac has been out for quite a while. everything to do with the hvac is gone now

I haven't weighed everything...but there are weights posted on the board...

took a few hours to get everything out...I was successful in getting the hvac out in one piece (which takes longer)
Old 01-02-2005, 02:57 PM
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I got my HVAC out this weekend also took a few hours. everything went back together the way it came out and all the controls still work.

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Old 01-02-2005, 03:08 PM
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http://www.dxsoftware.com/magnus/pics/dash/dash1.jpg

good times.
Old 01-02-2005, 03:34 PM
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Looked like my car a few weeks ago. Can GM put anymore 7mm screws in there????? I have a whole jar full! The rubber sound deadener was a headache.
Old 01-02-2005, 04:27 PM
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The heater core was right around 20lbs,and the passenger air bag with all the brackets is like 11 or 12lbs.I engine bay looks 100% better without the heater core in their.
Old 01-02-2005, 04:59 PM
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U couldve pulled it w/o taking the dash out but I'll tell ya that sure looks good.Please weight it all Brian as I'm back and forth about yanking mine out.One minute I want to and the next minute I dont,I would love to pull another 25lbs out of my car...

I might be able to get down to 3500 with me (360) in the car.
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brings back the memories of doing that to my car like two years ago lol.

i didn't need no stinkin heat either until my ex fiance started bitching about being cold and i couldn't see anything out the windshield. so thats when i put in the mojave heater(7lbs)..works great adn still keeps the room in the engine bay,too.

what else you doing weight removal wise right now?
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oh and whose blockoff plate is that? mine is home made and rivited to the firewall..that one looks nice though.
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Mine is home made as well.

Billingsley makes a nice one that I will be purchasing and will mount my LS2 PCM to it.. A guy that did a fast conversion mounted his unit to the blockoff plate and it looks VERY clean.
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Originally Posted by JS
U couldve pulled it w/o taking the dash out.. .
I tried to get mine out w/o removing the dash a had no luck. Then, I spent about 5 hours (and the jar of screws the other guy mentioned) trying to get the dash out and that didn`t work either. So I broke out the Roto-Zip!
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I made it out of sheet aluminum and pop-riveted it to the firewall. I even painted the engine bay side pewter (not shown)
Old 01-03-2005, 08:34 PM
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Originally Posted by JRcamaroZ28
I got my HVAC out this weekend also took a few hours. everything went back together the way it came out and all the controls still work.

JR

So thats how you get to the last spark plug.
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Originally Posted by dug
So thats how you get to the last spark plug.

yup! its a dream!!!!!

this is my hand around header #8
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Old 01-04-2005, 02:42 AM
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you lucky bastard...now if only i could convince the wife we dont need heat in Washington

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Looks good. That #8 plug is no problem now.




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