This is the ones I'm looking at (facelift version, albeit in auto 2006/07)

 

Prefaclift 2005/06, notice grill and gold Brembos and a couple other diffrences

 

The Japs get some really nice leggys for their market..

 

Any advice about changing the kph to mph? What's my best options.

And the sat nav will be in Japanese, any advice to work in uk, will it be just replace DVD disc for a uk one?

 

Sadly no. I had the same set up in my WR Ltd Leggy and it was a nightmare trying to get anything done with it. The local ICE specialist tried getting the thing to work and advice from UKLegacy failed. The antennae worked but now't else. The other issue is the A/C is part of the CD/Radio set up and is not cheap to replace.

I kept the gauges on display as they are a bit quirkey but look good and got a double DIN adaptor from Japanparts and fitted a Kenwood Nav/DVD/CD/TV unit.

If you do get the later version I still have an adaptor plate with A/C, aerial adaptor and surround with hazard warning switch hole (bought it by mistake).

 

Ah cool, after reading just now, I've seen that the sat nav screen and DVD unit may need to be changed to a uk one?

By fascia adapter do you mean it goes at top near vents? As I've seen some folk do that on the sales sites.
However the bottom part (heater controls and CD player) seems like a whole unit, so that looks like it can't be changed.
Did you have a USB/jack port? As I only listen to radio and iPhone for music.

 

What about a mph converter? As I'd want to keep them dials and don't think it's possible to get mph replacements anyway

 

I was after a grey spec b; nice colour choice. Do you think that you could get a 21000km tsti for under 12000k ? I might be back in the market if that is the case!! Good luck.

 

A spec b or tbsti?
Average ones I've seen sell in the auctions are about 60.000kms and the highest one sold for about £8.6k so landed in uk would be around £12-13k otr.
If it's just a spec b your after yes but I haven't looked into them but I'd expect them to be cheaper.
At 12000kms you'd have to be lucky for one to pop up on auction but I'd expect it to be a bit more money.

 

May have misunderstood, but I thought you were looking at the grey 21000km one at the top of the page, and were hoping to spend £12000; the tsti`s that I have looked at were a bit more than this at that km. Last year 50000km spec b`s were that kind of price, at auction, good grade, but manual. Never considered autos.

 

The pics I posted were just generic ones with better photos as on auctions you only get 2 photos side/front and rear and auction sheet.
Just posted a few pics of all angles for you to get a good idea.
But yes I'd want a grey one with a manual box though and only 1 has been through auction in the past 30 days and sold for about 1.5m yen (£8.5k)

 

I knew you'd be back

 

CannonFodder, lots of info on UKLegacy.com

 

Not much on the tuned by sti as I've looked, they only state the obvious which I've discovered more info

 

Common myth on the heater controls. I'll post up some pictures of my set up, but you can and I did replace the bottom unit, Japanparts do an OE Subaru kit. I bought two, one right and one wrong.

I have a spare which you can have as its for the later models.

 

I've since looked on japan parts and found what your talking about, they are 3 types I belive for heater, dual climate etc
Edit- this one? Middle picture looks like for the facelift tbsti https://www.japanparts.com/parts/detail/14777

 

Yep. I have a spare set

 

Oh cool, I'll keep you in mind when the time comes, as finding a manual 6 speed is not easy.