I used Mike Egan's site to see how. Took me about 20 minutes during lunch time to do it.

http://mikeegan.stormpages.com/Strut.html

 

I've had it this way for about one year now with no problems. I've seen it done both ways. I guess it's up to preferrence.

 

well there are many strut braces in the market. Some required bending of the air condition hose.

For example, cusco strut brace will required a slight bend on the AC hose. Most strut brace designed for the subaru will fit and install within 20 min.

be extra careful on the strut brace purchase from EBAY.

some good strut brace

> Cusco, JIC, GT SPEC, Tanabe, STI, STI Replica (pink one)....

 

Both. You get what you pay for when it comes to mods, not so much in the materials and workmanship of whatever your buying (sometimes), but in time spent developing it and testing the product. That's doesn't happen with the eBay specials. They just make it, see if it bolts on (or at least comes close) and up it goes to auction.

 

very well said..

 

Very true! Sometimes I think EBay needs a separate search filter option that automatically removes all shi**y parts from the search results. I hate looking for "WRX" parts and getting pages flooded with $12 strut tower bars, $19 racing harnesses, and the oh-so-famous $10 "titanium" universal catback exhaust systems. Stick with quality parts. If it looks like it may be crap, and its going at a flea-market "buy it now" price, then it probably is crap.

 

I actually used to have a "rice filter" set up in my IE faves. It was just an eBay search with something like "Impreza or STi or Subaru -[a whole bunch of keywords for crap]". It worked pretty good until there got to be so much BS on eBay that the search filter didn't have enough space for me to add all the words I needed to only get the good stuff.