I am planning on installing my own headunit in my sti, but I am really stuck on how to take the panel out. I've gotten as far as getting the glove box off but don't know where to go from there. Can anyone send me detailed instruction on how to do this?

 

you may have to push up on the vents to aid in the removal of the cupholder. You also can keep that sexy bezel that says Subaru and move it down to where the rattly open-wound in your dash is currently placed.

Best of luck with those front 5 1/4's. I used some 1/4 inch black plastic panel that can be found at Home Depot and cut out a square and a circle in the middle. I screwed this onto the door and used some speaker baffles and like 6 layers of the 2mm art foam sheets found at Hobby Lobby, cut them into circles and crammed all that around the outside of the baffle. I then rigged up a ziptie basket for the baffle to keep it off the window. I used one closed as the middle, and then attached that center ring with four other zipties that went around the edges of my plastic mounting ring. I used pilot-holes w/ a handy drill and just found some sheetmetal screws long enough, but not so long as to scratch the old window tint off...

Mounting the rest is easy, the component tweeters in the door line up about 2 inches straight forward from the door handle. I used a taper-head screw in the middle hole in the flat-mount basket and it lined up perfectly w/ the doorhole when the basket was a bit sideways from laying on the steel door where it elevated about 1/3 inch right infront of the door handle...good luck it took me 2 days to discover how all this crap works.

Also, make sure to move the door panels about 2 inches towards the back of the car after you unscrew and pop the clips out. This unseats the doorhandle and you can then remove the face-clip around the doorhandle. Nobody told me this, it took a LONG time for me to discover this as it was my first install.

Let me know if you have any other questions.