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Since I'm lazy, I'm leaving the cdrom in, but other than that, all we have left is the skeleton of the o2.
First I'm going to take out the metal wall that serves as the anchor for the second hard drive. Since I actually did this mod months ago, I can only recreate what I did and can't show you the pieces I removed. I looked at what needed to be removed and saw the plate is held in place by weaving it in with the surrounding metal. 
I broke off some tabs in front using my Gerber, and tried briefly to use my dremel to cut it out a bit. The dremel was unwieldy in such a small space, and I felt some brute force may be needed. I went to my toolbench and picked my second favorite tool (dremel being my first), the mini-boltcutter. Keep in mind, this is only a re-creation, I had the case fully stripped when I did this, and when I was done, both walls opposite were badly bowed out from my twisting the cutters around in full circles trying to get the last of it out. 
I had to spend a little while bending them back to get them perfect enough to accept all the components again. I put it all back together and tried to position my hard drive in the connector, but it wouldn't go in all the way. So I took it all back apart and tried to put it directly on the moosehead board, but it wouldnt clear the second SCA connector. Oh, well. The point of this is that I won't have room for a second hard drive anyway, so I fired up the soldering iron, and went to de-soldering all 80 pins. I pulled the plactic piece off, exposing the pins. Then I would hold on to each pin with alligator clips, heat the solder on the underside, and pull up when it had melted. 80 times. When I was done it looked like this: 
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