Somac

Such a great looking difference! Looks so much better now.

I love these scoops so far! Makes me miss my ARC real carbon fiber scoop extension.

USDM facelift tails look very normal and JDM facelift tails look very clearly "These don't look stock," to me. They definitely stand out, but I'm not sure that's what I'll be going for. I picked up some USDM facelift wagon tails yesterday so I guess it's my first set of parts to go on. Man, Legacy sedans look like Camrys, wagons look like Rav4s - Legacy owners just can't win. Subaru needs to stop jocking Toyota's style.

If I got JDM I'd get the garnish, too, but I can't say I'm big on the chrome. It does look super classy on the black though.

Gonna pick up a spare set of stock lights from a junkyard and retrofit them with some extra parts I have so I can just do an easy swap out. How do you guys feel about USDM facelift wagon tail lights versus JDM facelift lights? I hate the red/amber lights and I'm not sure I'm feeling the JDM facelift ones but I keep going back and forth.

Chassis codes it is. Tried both of the importers near me to see if they can get me an OBP facelift front end, rear bumper, and some other things. UK and DE eBay are chock full of them for dirt cheap so it feels so painful to see them for $1000+ again. Hopefully in a couple months a decision will be made. Contemplating retrofitting my stock USDM headlights now until that happens but it'd just feel like a waste.

RRRRREEEEEEEEEE I do my best to not be one of the Outback cucks that refers to their car by the Outback generation since it just confuses everyone. If I say "3rd gen," I mean "3rd generation Legacy platform" and everyone thinks BE/BH so it's best to just stick with that. As far as how Subaru actually decides on what letters to use for their chassis codes, I have no idea. There doesn't seem to be much consistency even between sedan and wagon when going across the generations. Imprezas at least make more sense with GC, GD, GE for sedans, then GF, GG, GH for wagons/hatches, but even that goes out the window with GR, GV.

I guess I could introduce myself, too, even though we're all probably on the same Legacy pages. This was my 3rd gen Outback that I had a JDM rev D front end, tail lights, spoiler, interior parts, suspension, and A E S T H E T I C stuff for. Had a bunch of STI, S401, ARC, ZeroSports, Cusco, and Prova stuff for it. Reverted it back to pretty much stock and sold it. Bought an '03 Forester XS 5MT after that and just sold it, and now I picked up an '05 Outback XT 5MT that I'm ready to blow all my money on again. Plan is to get a JDM Outback facelift front end, USDM facelift or JDM facelift tail lights, JDM rear bumper, maybe JDM Outback Bilsteins, and maybe some interior stuff. I've got a JDM importer in Chicago and one in Mississauga that are both about 4 hours away from me that I'm going to have to visit and rob one of these days.

Does anyone know if the JDM 4th gen Outback fenders are just Legacy fenders with flares attached? Considering buying that cheap JDM Outback front end that's on eBay right now but it doesn't have fenders and the guy said he doesn't have any for it. Edit: never mind, I'm dumb. The ~$300 listing for the JDM Outback front end is just for the bumper and fogs even though the pictures show the headlights and core support and everything with it.

The only thing incompatible between BE/BH struts and shocks and BL/BP struts and shocks are the front tophats. Retain your original tophats in the front and everything bolts up.