Righteous_fire

For the fronts, you install the metal clips in the holes on the front, but underneath, you will have to drill a hole in the running board for the plastic clip.

In the rear, you will have to drill a hole for the top position of the splash guard at the top position on the edge, and drill a hole underneath for the plastic clip.

I'm actually about to install these myself.

If you haven't gone ahead with it yet, I'll let you know what I find out.

That makes sense.

It figures they re-use a lot of the same stuff, even cross platform.

[quote=Humble Rumble;6029398However, skip their top hats, and go with the beefier STI Group N front top hats, and reinforced Forester rear top hats, I'll link part numbers below. I recently swapped mine, and lordy the difference is night and day. Should have just done these from the beginning.

Part #'s

-STI Group N Front Strut Mounts (B0310FE000)

-SG Forester Reinforced Rear Strut Mounts (20370SG000)

Will these parts fit the Gen 6 Legacy, you think?

On the point about the Koni's fitting, there's another thread around here confirming this works on 2015-2019. I followed that for parts.

As I know it, the KYB's are good shocks, but the top hats and hardware are crap, so what I may do, is keep the KYB's around but cut the OEM struts for the inserts.

This is the first I've read about the side-to-side movement of the inserts. I wonder if the KYB Excel-G wall thickness is just a smidge thinner than the OEM ones. It'd be almost impossible to tell without taking them apart.

Maybe someone has some measurements?

Do you think putting the brass ribbon in at the beginning would have helped prevent it?

Not exactly sure where the best place to ask this is, but are the bodies of the OEM and the Excel-G struts the same inner diameter?

OEM struts are $150+, each but a KYB is around $70 each. I'd rather cut up a "donor" strut than the OEM ones. I'm going to check out a pick-a-part locally that has a couple 15+ legacy's on their lot to see what they will quote me.