sorbus

You can turn back to stock springs, paired with struts it'd be ok with cornering.

BUT you can use full susp travel on high bumps. Since roads at your driveway are ok that wouldn't be a problem.

Sorbus,

Do you think I could get you to measure your fender arch heights, in inches, front and rear for me?

Pretty please with a TMIC on top?

Very tough since my father took it to another country while on vacation.

BUT I have photos:

before install:

rear

front

after:

rear

front

as you can see, difference in clearance is not huge, and that was my aim - keep almost stock-look and improve handling.

Liner is in centimeters, you can convert to inches by yourself.

Yes but real world results would probably be negligible . Only if you really had a Starsky and hutch look would it have a truly adverse effect

Now it's time to remember, that Subaru = AWD, not FWD or RWD, where you can do almost everything. Disbalancing makes central diff go crazy sometimes (avoiding road accidents, other obstacles). Just check the price for central diff and make proper decision.

Has anyone ever run different springs in the front than the rear?

Loving the look of the back on mine after putting the new tires and wheels on, but would really like for the front to be down another 1/2 inch or so.

I'm currently running the Rallitek springs on the USDM Spec B Bilstein's, and was thinking about trying to find another set of springs (H&R maybe?) that were a half inch more of a drop in the front to level it out. I could be WAY off basis, but I was thinking that if the springs were the same, or very similar, spring rates then I shouldn't have an issue.

If you lower front axle to visually level it out you'll disbalance front/rear axle load, including dynamic load under acceleration/braking, causing increased tyre and brake disk+pad wear, shock load (especially on bumpy roads).

Definitely not a good idea.

I'm running Tein H.Tech with stock shocks. Runs perfectly - less body roll, better feeling when braking. Excellent DD.

Works excellent with Cusco strut bars (top+bottom upper and lower bars are installed).

If you're not going offroad you may increase cornering performance with thicker sway bars (start with JDM, then COBB, Perrin and so on): + 2-3 mm will make huge difference on setup listed above.