I'll put duct tape (temporarily) over the cooling holes on the sides and the connectors on the backplane.

I was expecting one of the Empeg guys to jump in here and say this... If you use a dremel tool to grind/cut metal, heat is generated. I don't know how much heat just to make those screws shorter. But if it's a lot of heat, then you could be talking about damaging the circuits on the motherboard. It's just a caution: the unit gets pretty hot in the dash as it is so I know it can take SOME heat. Just be careful as you're dremeling not to make the metal too hot in the process.

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Tony Fabris