Hey iam trying the get that rubber padding off the firewall. I can only get part of it without removing the whole dash. Can you tell me what bolts need to be taken off in order to do this.Thanks for the help.

Troy

 

thats the firewall mat right? i hear that it is heavy! I would assume you have to take out the whole dash in order to remove that

 

That **** blocks alot of heat i wonder how it will be on a hot summer day without it.

 

I took it out on my project hatch it didnt feel too heavy. You have to take a lot more then just the dash out to get it off. There is lots of stuff under the dash.

To take the dash off there are bolts behind a little plastic panel in the door jam. Just open your door and look where you dash raps around you will see the plastic panel, pry that off and there are two bolts there. Then there is a bolt behind the center vent on the top of your dash. You have to take out your ac/heater controls also I believe. I think there is a bolt someplace around there (behind the ac/heater controls) ill look when I get home. If you do a search I on how to take the dash off I'm sure you will find something.

Keith

 

i finally drove my car after taking out that mat, heater core, heater blower, ac, and pass. air bag. i can feel the heat from tghe engine come inside the car and the road and engine noise is a bit louder. but its worth the weight i lost.

 

pull up carpet, and PULL. You leave a little of the rubber mat behind the heater box, but not much.

 

get a haynes car manuel. it'll tell you how to do it, and has pictures

 

Then pull some more
I could not get all of mine but I got enough


[Modified by rolow, 7:27 PM 7/3/2002]

 

take the bolts out by where the door jam is behind the little plastic panels u can take out... on an ek at least... u have to drop the steering colum which is held up by a few bolts... u can see them easily... take out the screw by the windshield... in the middle under the little plastic cover and take out the bolts that attatch the dash to the floor under the lower center console...

then u can take off everything else (at least i did) and rip the mat off... some pieces stay behind the pedal assemblies... where they bolt up that is

 

how much weight does this remove?

 

not enough

 

Tell me about it I was thinking of this when I put my car on a 100 poud + diet last weekend I took off all the sound material off the floor in the intior car and the fuzz under the carpet off and the back seats rear pannels and AC and other things I saw this padding and was like I want it out and saw what had to be done to take it out and I was like **** that I can make it up in HP