jump a couple weeks of waiting to hunt down harness and such (i let the car sit for a bit)
and I finally start to really take apart the dash.

after struggling with tamper resistant SRS plugs, I finally got the dash bar out. You have to support the steering wheel with a jackstand so the column doesnt collapse on itself. Brian said, its not worth your while to remove it. So it stayed in.


oh the humanity.



a reason why I gutted the car completely was to look for this box. its the wrx fuel pump controller. apparently when the harness was made, the recepient plug wasnt available. so what did they do? they cut the plastic, and soldered directly to contacts.




Blower motor out. At this point, you have to disconnect the AC lines. You have to pull out the intercooler/bov to gain access to the lines and other stuff too. You also have to take out the heater core and the associated coolant lines.

Intercooler out - older pic for reference