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Check your pitch stopper rod and ensure it’s still bolted in firmly. Also check for broken engine or gearbox mounts. Cheers Bennie

Brake lines are in, found some rubber ones that fit the JDM 4/2's off a 2017 or something impreza in a pull it yard, idk they fit and hold pressure so I'll keep checking them and we'll see how they do. Rear is all in and for anyone wondering, you can run GC8 STI rear suspension on the FWD crossmember, however the FWD lateral link bolt is 1 inch shorter so it requires a bit of a spacer, or you tighten it up and probably wear the front lateral link bushing far quicker than the rear; I chose to run a small spacer for now so the links aren't exactly parallel but I was able to align it just fine and torque everything to spec, after some short drives and more aligning, it tracks quite straight! I need to adjust the front toe but I'm going to wait until I can access a lift and a rear alignment tool and also replace my ball joints and sway bushings. Way out to start Right on, at least as on as I'm going to get it string aligning on dirt lol Cleaned up some 25rs mats As it sits, with my thumb, sorry Car feels good! I also deleted the AC and it definitely livened it up. Tires tomorrow and then paint for the wheels.

Made a lot of progress in the past 3 days, cleaned and por~15 everything, got exhaust and inevitably spent an hour heating and banging until it fit. I literally bought the cheapest one I could find, but it fits not and is painted with some vmt. Got the rear hard lines in and fit the gas tank straps to receive the tank, freshly brushed and por15'd with clean rubber, but still waiting on 2 of the 3 gas lines running the top of the tank. Cleaned up the LGT wheels, which are now awaiting paint after I fit tires. I'm just going to assume the tire shop will scuff them and paint them after I also wanted to use the alignment bolts for the rear FWD subframe/suspension so I lathed and pressed some poly bushings that fit the FWD alignment bolt, into the STI lat links. Definitely an experiment, but I took 2 tries when the first pressed into the link too easily, made the second super snug to the lat link ID which took much more force to set with the press. We'll see how they stiffen things, probably will just go to Whiteline if bad things happen... Lastly I tried mocking up my strut to knuckle situation with the trailing arm bracket bolted in and it doesn't look good... *blue knuckle, *white strut: I've read the FWD struts should bolt up to AWD knuckles but these are 2+ inches apart at vertical so I was a bit stumped; and after 3 days straight of brushing, undercoating, swearing at, and sweating on this disgrace to Subarus everywhere, I gave in and got a beer. Let me know if I need AWD top hats, AWD struts, both, or something more expensive...

I managed to pull the whole rear suspension today, had to grind the trailing arms bolts at the body because they just weren't havin' it. I made a template and drilled 3, 2 cm holes (just large enough to fit a 19 mm) above each bolt holding the trailing arm brackets to the body so I could access the "welded" nuts because they broke off in the frame. I have them soaking in the good stuff now, but if they don't break loose on Wednesday, out comes the grinder and I'll at least be able to pull out the scraps and feed fresh new hardware with access holes from the top. Used a broken dolly that I could slide under the rear with a bottle jack between its rails and just lowered the whole thing and rotated it out from under. Now all I need is a FWD Rear subframe because mine is just too crusty to mess with. I know the AWD one could work but it definitely weighs more than the skinny rail I had in it. Only place I can find it is Subaru and they want like $400 for it, lol. I guess I'll just have to keep searching marketplace, car~part, or post a WTB, there must be someone near with a left-over from an AWD swap... Tank and hardlines out Replacements on the way while I brush, prep, and POR15 everything underneath. Also decided to give my rear subframe a shot, just nipped the old lateral link bolts and went to town... Quick sandblast, cut off the weird bracket on the back that literally does nothing, a couple coats of primer and more POR Filler neck too Gots me a donor car with a 251 that I'll use for the frankenmotor eventually. Exhaust, spacers and some other bits showed up today. More to come next week.