This post could’ve been just one sentence: “I bought a great dead pedal — anyone who owns a GD STI should have it.” If it weren’t for one detail — or rather, another dead pedal I also bought. Let me explain.

I read somewhere that the dead pedal from the BRZ (part number 38010CA010) fits the Impreza, so I bought it. It looks like this:

As with all OEM parts, it’s well made, with a nicely formed aluminum plate mounted on a plastic base. But what caught my attention were the screws holding the aluminum — not the ones in the photo above, since I’ve already replaced those — but these:

This rusty one was on the bottom of the dead pedal, which I took apart out of curiosity:

At the very bottom, where the plastic is scuffed or dull, there was sand that must have gotten in through the holes. I think that sand is the main cause of the screw’s corrosion. Someone might say, “Oh come on, it’s just a screw on the dead pedal — relax,” but it made me wonder what all the nooks and crannies look like after sandblasting the underbody. When I was doing restoration work on the Impreza, we only sandblasted the top part of the strut towers from the underside. Even though everything was properly masked off and sealed, sand still ended up in all sorts of places. I think we made the right choice by going with brushes and drills instead of sandblasting.

Now, back to the main topic: “I bought a great dead pedal — anyone who owns a GD STI should have it.” And that’s exactly how it is. These cars absolutely should have come from the factory with this exact dead pedal. I got mine from here. It’s exactly the same size as the OEM plastic version and installs using the original clips:

Here’s how it looks on the carpet:

Unfortunately, the one from the BRZ doesn’t fit — it’s much shorter and narrower, and it also has an integrated base, which isn’t needed in the Impreza.

• Impreza
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• Sti