You can't remove the center console - it's welded into the center of the monocoque chassis. You can take the covers off of it.
Removal and replacement of the heater tubes is a bitch.
To get them out, you have to break some inaccessible welds, and then I had to cut them out in short sections.
Then you better buy some pre-bent tubes that fit, because making your own tubes that fit well is a nightmare. They have to poke up at very specific angles to properly come out of the forward part of the console, and they have a strange bend in them to make them poke out parallel to each other into the engine bay.
OBTW - they have to lay along the passenger side of the console, very tightly, so they don't interfere with the shifter.
Access is very difficult, and then once you have tubes that you think are right, you will find you can't get them back through the console because they are too long.
This is more than a 1 banana project!
OBTW: Once you start on this one, you are committed, as well. You will be taking your car down until you finish it.
Rocky