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Curious what the latest is on lowering springs. I've got an 08 LGT that I'd like to close up the wheel gap a bit on. I've looked through threads here on lowering springs and such, but it all seems a bit out of date. I'm actually pretty impressed with the stock suspension. It handles well for a DD and is very comfortable. I'd like to keep the ride quality pretty close to stock and I'm not really looking for a serious performance gain (though I'd like to not lose anything either). I've got an 05 STi built to race in time attack events that I can take out if I really want to rip corners. The Legacy is just a fun sporty DD. So some specific questions... STi pinks -- I only see them for sale for 05-07. Did the 08 change enough that these aren't a good option for me? Swift springs -- the ones I see list a 1.2" drop front and 1" drop rear. That sounds pretty good, but when I see folks talking about them on here, they are usually listed as more like a 2" drop. Is there something I'm missing? Am I being dumb by wanting to just swap springs? Of course, swapping on some Bilsteins would be ideal and I'd like to do that eventually... but for now the STi is being a lil princess and taking more than her fair share of the mod budget

Glad / not glad to hear that I'm not the only one that's had this occur. Mine has been down almost 4 weeks now, mostly because I've been out of town a lot for work and having to work around that. Been especially annoying as I bought the LGT in the first place to have a reliable daily as the STi has become more of a racecar than a street car over the last couple years. It's been down for 6 months now for a motor build and it's pretty annoying to have TWO broken Subarus taking up the garage. I think I figured it out though. I'd looked at RockAuto before but I really dug around in all their offerings after you mentioned that the Denso fit properly. Looks like the radiator that Rallysportdirect sells as LGT fitment is Koyo part number A13093. RockAuto's LGT fitment Koyo radiator is Koyo part number A13091. Looking at the diagrams between them, A13093 has the outlet on that nipple listed as 5/16ths and A13091 has it listed as 1/2. Went out to the garage to measure the two different hoses and those are exactly the correct measurements for the STi radiator nipple and the LGT nipple. (I'm just going into this much depth for anyone else in this spot later who finds this post) Anyways -- I appreciate the offer of the CSF, that's very generous. I think I'll just order the correct Koyo though. Gives me warm fuzzys to have parts fit exactly as they should vs using adaptors for an unknown reason.

Interesting. I assume you've had no issues with temps or anything running like that? Guess maybe I'll just make a little adaptor like that with a smaller hose and look into getting the OEM hose that rhino suggested.

Thank you! Does that hose have a different ID at each end? You are correct about the radiator -- it's listed as the same part number for the LGT as well as 08-14 WRX and 08-21 STi.

Thanks for the response! It's a plastic nipple on the top of the radiator all the way over on the passenger side. My 05 STi track car has the same size nipple there, but it goes to a correspondingly sized nipple on the upper coolant tank. On the LGT, it's a 3/8ths hose all the way from the upper tank to the radiator. I was thinking of doing option 1 you had suggested. My main question though is if this is something others have seen or if there's something I'm missing. It does seem weird to replace a cooling hose with a smaller one than the system was designed for.

My 08 LGT recently cracked the radiator. Everywhere I'd look online, it seemed the same as the WRX/STi stock radiator... got one from a friend and it all bolted up perfect, except the little nipple on the top passenger side is too small (roughly half the size of the OEM LGT radiator one). So I got a Koyo OEM replacement... and it has the exact same issue. I've looked around a ton online but haven't really encountered anyone talking about this. The couple posts I did find were all reviews and sounds like they either just tightened the clamp down like crazy to make it fit or used some sort of hose adaptor. Seems off though to me to restrict part of the cooling system down to about half of what it's meant to be. The car's been down for awhile now with waiting to get the 1st radiator and then waiting for the 2nd one, so I'd really love to get it up and running again soon. I can't find any hose adaptors anywhere at auto parts stores or hardware stores that seems like it would work. I'd guess I could just tighten the clamp super extra tight and it would work, but it seems like that would just be asking for a leak. Anyone else encounter this?