Took about 1.5hrs to do the install at my friend Steve's house. Very straight-forward and everything went smoothly - it's awesome working on my low mileage Impreza which has zero rust/corrosion on the bolts.
I compared one of my stock front struts to one of the new Tokico's. On the stock strut, when you push the piston in, it goes down with some resistance, but when you let go, the piston rebounds v-e-r-y slowly to being fully extended again. The tokico strut on the other hand, takes some *serious* force to compress the piston and when you let go, the piston rebounds in a flash!
I can definitely feel the difference on the road. Car responds very quickly to transitional inputs and settles down much faster afterwards.
I'll be getting my car aligned next Saturday morning, and Sunday is WDCR event #4!
Chike