Have owned this car and been a member for more than 2 years... but for a lot of that time I really missed my GC8 version 6 STi... However, really starting to love the GT now after some simple mods because when I first bought it it did need a bit of work to bring it up to scratch. Front bumper was scratched and needed a respray, the wheels had major gutter rash problems and the passenger rear door had damaged trim. However, finally gotten around to fixing those things as well as adding the bilsteins and for the first time I don't miss the STi anymore! Also have an Eclipse AVN4400 and now contemplating whether to put the McIntosh back in and the Eclipse in the sunglasses cubby but sounds like that would be a bit of a project to make happen. Would like to get the STi front lip +/- rear spoiler but our driveway would probably ruin the front lip pretty quickly. A tune would be great too to make it more driveable... the bug has hit!
Only other change has been a new clutch - glad to be rid of the DMF!
Anyway, enough words and here are some pre and post photos. The post photos were taken by my wife who is a mad keen photography and obsessed with trying to capture sunflare (5D Mkii, 24-70L). Happy for any technical comments (eg tangcla and other regular photographers if you see this)! Very happy with the car now. Removed the headlight surrounds too.