pamike

your tire to strut clearance will be fine. use a full set of 96-99 outback struts with your stock springs and top hats. i was running 205/75-15 tires on this setup. 215/65-16 tires also fit. my old legacy as a reference

get snow tires, makes a big difference. i run the general altimax arctic's on my wrx. also a small lift for more clearance helps

don't worry it will be worth it when your done

have any info on this recall? i have a 96 and would like to know more

i wouldn't worry about it. i've ran my lifted legacy's for years without modifying the speedometer. at highway speeds just go about 5 mph under the speed limit and call it good.

theirs really not much in a caliper. i work for a company that rebuilds them. i had a set that i personlly assembled on my subaru for years before i sold it and they are still doing good. somtimes the piston or bore gets rusty and they hang up but i have pulled them apart and cleaned them up with my dremel tool and reassembled and they work fine after. but that happens to all calipers not just the new ones

i guess we'll see.. so far no dead battery

well i've just been driving it and waiting to see what the car is going to do. so far i havn't got a dead battery so thats good. but i would still like to know if their is supposed to be a delay in the relay turning off. i was thinking of doing some testing on my brothers car and see if his has the delay. i thought i checked it before but i can't remember, it's been a while. his is the same year so everything should work the same.

i don't believe the rear springs are different. i think it's just the top hats that are different because of the different bolt parrern but i'm not 100% sure on that. but anyway i currently have a 96 legacy with the outback struts also and i've had no issues with it either. it's the wifes daily driver. both are in the pic i posted yesterday. i do know that the same setup on a first gen legacy seems to lift a bit more than the second gen cars.

not sure about the spring rates but sedan vs wagon are probably different rates. height of the spring is the same though. but i had my 90 lifted for probably 4-5 years and it seen alot of offroading and i never had any issues. struts were still working as they should when i sold it.

if you look back at the original question it was about outback struts. i only brought up the forester struts because of your comment above. he was not asking about forester struts therefore that information was of no use to him anyway. i was directing that info tward you. you were wrong about the springs and i was just clarifying that he did not need to use outback springs because of the fact that the stock legacy springs are just about(if not) identical. i know this from my own experience and research. i just assumed you thought the springs were different because you have a forester, and impreza springs are shorter than forester springs and you probably thought the same was true about legacy vs outback.

yup i know, just didn't feel the need to add that info in there

i agree 100%. i had a 90 legacy lifted with outback struts with stock legacy springs and top hats. no problems. i ran it for quite a few years. i also currently have a 96 legacy lifted the same way with stock springs and hats. springs are pretty much the same betweent the legacy and outback. foresters struts i believe give the lift from the taller springs. this is why the outback struts have more tire to spring perch clearance than the forester struts. here's a pic of my 2 legacy's. the outback struts seem to lift the first gen legacys a bit more than the second gen's

black/blue, white/blue, black/pink, and the 2 yel/blue wires have in the 11.5-12v range. and i just found out that if i let the relay stay powered up for a while, somtimes it will turn off after a few minutes. and i just wanted to ask you if their was any possability that the relay was supposed to stay on for a brief time after turning the key off? i can't see any reason it would though. but i turned the key on and back off about 4 different times and after about 3 minutes everytime the relay turned off by itself.

do you have a wiring diagram of the ecu pins you could post up? how would i remove the wire from the connector? i know somtimes they can be a pain. but i just checked some wires at the ecu with the main relay on and alot of the wires have some power to them rangeing from .13v up to 11.5v.