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Originally Posted by dayofpain
if you read the HUGE thread on nasioc, which i reread today. It was admitted to the rally guys in aus BY subaru of japan that in fact the subframe was added simply to change the rating from 4 stars to 5 stars.
NO high performance version comes with the U style subframe. period. BUT they do come with a crossbrace that does NOT triangulate. go figure.
and the debate rages on.
and no matter how many times I count my bolts scott, there are still only 6 gold grade 8 bolts. there are other wimpy sisified bolts. but i was not counting them. also two of the points that the gtspec subframe bolts into are not shared with the stock subframe. the two innermost ones on the rear pieces.
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I believe on my car, all the bolts are grade-8, though only some of them are beefy. The beefy ones are the ones that go in the holes I circled on that picture.
The OEM subframe uses all of the holes the GT-Spec front subframe uses, and 3 of the four holes that the rear GT-Spec uses, plus the hole further aft of the GT-Spec subframe that's got nothing in it in those pictures. I'm attaching the page out of the WRX Service Manual for reference.
I'm really curious to see what that cross-brace the non-subframe cars have looks like.