Conversion completed.  One hidden screw in order to remove the larger heatsink.   Also had to remove the brace for the water tubes.  I would recommend taking that off after the larger heatsink.  Felt like it was hung under the larger heatsink, so rather than pry I came back to it last.  Once I did this that brace lifted right off the card.
 
My final recommendation, is to save all the thermal pad tape covers.  If you aren't familiar with what I'm talking about, it's the blue tint covers that you peel off the thermal pads attached to the hydro conversion.  You can reuse these and cover all the thermal pads that you are storing should you have to reassemble the card for warranty claims.  In my case, was great 1 for 1 swap.  Will save dirt and such from building up on the pad.
 
Going to move the the case project soon.

HawkOculus
Have you installed water blocks before? How was working with the Hydro Copper kit overall? I am considering putting one on my Kingpin but doing a water block install for the first time gives me a fair bit of anxiety lol.

If you've never worked on electronics before I would watch some YouTube videos on water block installations, watch the Gamers Nexus tear down videos on the KingPin 2080 Ti, they're great, informative and should help with disassembly.  It's not so much that it's hard but you need to be informed and researched a bit before starting and then follow EVGA instructions they included in the box or online install guides.  Good luck! 

Nazarus
Excited to pull my system together but my progress comes at opportunity. 2 young kids eat up most of my day. I build in the dark of night. Interesting part is going to be doing the tubing with the woosh of the heat gun at 10pm+ at night.

Good luck!
 
2 kids here as well and both are doing baseball! :(