[ScottyS]

Haha, Kevin you know you got lucky on that '04, you had better make it a sweet DD instead of flipping it.

The only true alternative to the SVX would be an '05+ LGT, possibly a turbo'd 2nd gen Legacy. I don't really see Impreza's in the same class of comfort or style, which is what the SVX is all about.

Making a 1st gen 22T fast is not hard these days, there is now a pretty straight-forward recipe for that. The bad thing about them is that they are so freaking old that you have to replace all sorts of little stuff to get them nice and reliable. And then you are still stuck with an old car with an old, cheap interior. Now, if you were going to just use it for AutoX or something, that's different, but as a true GT car no way.

Doing a full 22T swap into a new car is a little crazy, basically taking an OBDII and turning it into an OBDI. You might as well start with a newer (WRX, etc) harness and use that as the swap. Now we are getting expensive. At that point you might as well find a good SVX shell and swap that.