I think 1.5" spacers might be a little ambitious. I also think you might be attacking it a little wrong if you just keep the stock bump stop travel. Going up 'only' 1.5" of lift doesn't offer a whole lot more room for taller tires, even if you add in some Baja or King springs to get another .5" or so. You might as well be going for more travel, so you might want to jack up the car with the spacers in and see how far the suspension can go before things start binding critically - then set your stops just a touch before that.

Do you have or plan to add skidplates to the car? If you're going to lift it, and actually make use of that lift, you'll need to protect the underside.

If you've got access to a good amount of machining equipment, why not fab up some decent cat-back or axle-back exhausts? There's basically nothing for Gen. 2 outbacks off the shelf, at least not at a reasonable price. Work up a good setup, make a jig - and take orders!

 

sounds good to me.

given the long commute the lift is likely to cost you some gas mileage. but besides that i like a little extra lift myself and usually go with 2". yes, you loose travel, but i don't do serious offroading or rock crawling, couldn't care less about that. mine is purely functional, not for play. i like the higher stance for getting into and loading, to drive over curbs, sidewalks, inanimate or animate objects without slamming my bumper, and have a little extra clearance for snow and unmaintained roads where i live. i don't need travel like the recreational offroad people want.

2" is usually easily attainable on most Subaru's without any CV axle issues. go above that and you start eating through CV's.

the kits i've installed at 2" are offset though to make up for lost camber. not sure what you'll get at 1.5" without any offset to make up for that but your tires might wear weird. you could align the fronts, not sure how much room those camber bolts have but i doubt it's enough to compensate. could probably get larger camber bolts and drill out the strut/hub, but not sure what you'd do about the rear.

 

so the strut top spacers are not flat? Do you have any pictures?

 

An existing product.
Subtle Solutions

 

weird - that link came up as an attact threat on my computer?

if you look at the picture attached, the bolt holes on those front strut tower spacers they aren't lined up, they are made to counter the effect of pushing the vehicle body up which pushes the top of the wheels out and throws the camber way off.

that's from Scott of SJR lifts if you want to check out his website.

 

Yeah I saw the malware detected issue with the website too....
Not sure what the deal is there.

Primitive is advertising spacers too.

 

So dose anyone have a side view of the SRJ lift? i am curious to see if it is welded at an angle. If its flat it will not matter if the holes line up or not. I like the subtle solutions lift but being a machinist I refuse to buy a machined part that I can easily make and I already have some lift blocks made. I am just trying to figure out if I went about it the right way. I will post up some pictures soon. The blocks I made are flat 1.5 inch blocks. The subtle lift you can do 1.375 in the front and 1.25 in the back so I am just slightly taller.

The lift is just to get it up a bit more go through snow a bit better and to do some light off roading I would like to get 215-70R16 tires under it.

 

the blocks are offset to compensate for the massive loss of camber you get if you just straight lift them. each model may differ though, so your results may vary. there are pictures on the internet of folks that have lifted their subarus and the front tires are massively cambered because of it, quite common.

either way, i wouldn't worry about it, doesn't sound like you're too concerned about it so just bolt it on and go from there.