The Kit Problem, a Hub Built for GC/GF Builders, and 15% Off Through April 20

This is why April is Subaru month at Body Kit Online Store. Here is what we built for it.

The full Rocket Bunny style wide body kit for the Subaru Impreza GC/GF is 15% off through April 20. Code ROCKETBUNNY15 at checkout. That’s $450 off the standard $3,000 price, with free worldwide shipping already included. Nothing added at checkout.

That offer exists for a reason. This month, we also launched the Subaru Impreza GC/GF Hub, a permanent reference page built from 12 years of manufacturing experience on this platform. And both of those things trace back to the same origin: the people building GC/GFs today are not casual enthusiasts. They are a generation with a real reason to care about this chassis.

The GC/GF

In 1995, Colin McRae won the World Rally Championship in a Subaru Impreza GC. He was 27, from Fife, Scotland. The youngest champion the sport had seen. Subaru took the manufacturers’ title that year, then again in 1996, then again in 1997. Three consecutive championships in a discipline that had always belonged to European manufacturers. Nobody expected it.

McRae drove aggressively, sideways, spectacularly. People came to WRC stages specifically to watch him. His name has stayed attached to this car in a way most champions don’t manage.

In 1998, Colin McRae Rally launched on PlayStation and permanently extended that audience. The Impreza GC was the car on the cover. Millions of people who had never watched a WRC stage drove a virtual GC through Wales and Sweden and Greece. The game ran for years and eventually became the DiRT series.

Anyone who watched those seasons is in their forties now. The video game generation is in their late twenties and early thirties. Both groups carry the same car in their heads. For many of them, this is the first time they’ve had the money, a garage, and the time to build it properly.

If you are reading this, you are probably one of them.

What We Built This Month

The GC/GF Hub is a permanent reference page at bodykitonlinestore.pro, built from the knowledge that 12 years of actual kit production on this platform generates.

It opens with a chassis guide: the production history of the GC and GF, what the chassis codes mean, and why the widened arch aero on the WRC competition cars was developed for the championship run, not after it. That is not decorative heritage — it is engineering-led design proven under competition conditions, which is why the wide-body form still looks correct on a modern build rather than nostalgic. That lineage is why the wide-body form has a genuine pedigree on this chassis that most other platforms don’t share.

Below that is a fitment table covering every variant in the GC/GF family: GC8 WRX across both EJ20G and EJ20K generations, all six STI versions, the Type R coupe, the 22B (approximately 424 units produced in 1998: 400 JDM, 24 export), GF8 in both WRX and STI spec, the GM6 coupe, and the NA base trims. Engine codes, power figures, kerb weights, gearbox specs, and kit availability for each. If you have ever had to cross-reference three sources to confirm whether your specific car takes the same kit as a GC8 STI V4, that table is why the Hub exists.

No other body kit supplier has published anything close to this for the GC/GF platform. Not a boast. A gap we noticed and decided to fill.

**→ GC/GF Hub**

The Kit Problem

Building a wide-body GC/GF today runs into one specific wall.

The original kits are gone. Charge Speed, C-West, and Odula defined the look during the late 1990s and early 2000s: made in Japan, sold through tuning shops, featured in Option magazine and on the Japanese show circuit. Precision-made. Fitment correct. Owning a complete set was a mark of seriousness about the platform.

That supply is finished:

• Those companies stopped producing GC/GF kits or went out of business entirely
• When a complete, undamaged set surfaces today, it trades above the market value of a clean donor car
• Most examples showing up now have UV yellowing and stress fractures from sitting in storage since 2003

Which leaves a global community of passionate GC/GF builders with nowhere obvious to go for a proper wide-body conversion.

The Rocket Bunny Solution

Rocket Bunny is the design language from Kei Miura’s TRA Kyoto studio: wide arches, exposed-bolt hardware, nothing subtle about it. Starting around 2012, Miura’s kits appeared on some of the most-photographed cars in the world: Formula Drift, SEMA, Japanese time attack circuits. The name became shorthand for a certain kind of serious build done properly.

For the GC/GF platform specifically, the Rocket Bunny aesthetic fits the character of the car. The WRC-era Impreza was never quiet. A wide-body conversion built in that design language is the natural continuation of what the chassis always was.

There are currently two companies in the world producing a Rocket Bunny-style wide body kit for the GC/GF in current production.

One operates out of the United States. The fitment problems are documented. Builders who have ordered have needed extensive remedial work before panels sit correctly. Not acceptable on a $3,000 build component.

The second is this workshop. Each kit is moulded from a 3D scan of an original Impreza body — not approximated from photos or measurements. CNC-milled tooling, European-grade fiberglass, hand-laid at 1–2mm with controlled elasticity (thinner than industrial fiberglass, engineered for panel flex without cracking). Available in hand-laid fiberglass or vacuum-infused carbon fibre — full material comparison in the Hub.

Twelve years of production on this exact platform means the hardest fitment problem — the GF wagon’s rear arch geometry, the issue most builders don’t know to ask about until the kit arrives — is baked into the tooling. Not a note in the instruction sheet.

Free worldwide shipping is included in the kit price. The first kit shipped to Malaysia in 2015. The most recent one went out two weeks ago. In between: Japan, Tanzania, the United States, Australia, and the EU. Every continent has multiple wide-body GCs and GFs built from this production run.

April Is When We’re Celebrating

We launched the Hub this month because April felt right. The GC/GF community has a particular energy in spring. Builds come out of winter. Builders who spent the cold months planning are finally ready to move on it.

We’re marking the launch with a limited-time discount on the full kit.

15% off the full Rocket Bunny wide body conversion through April 20. Code ROCKETBUNNY15 at checkout. That’s $450 off the standard price, with worldwide shipping already included. Nothing added at checkout.

The kit covers the complete conversion in one order: front bumper, front lip, rear bumper, side skirts, and four fender flares at +50mm (1.96 in) per side, front and rear. All GC/GF variants from 1994–2000. One production run, consistent gelcoat batch, from the same mould pull.

Production after confirmed payment: 12–15 working days.

Shipping by region:

• Europe: 7–14 working days
• United States / Canada / Japan: 7–20 working days
• UK / South America: 14–30 working days
• Asia / Africa / Australia / New Zealand: 20–30 working days

Payment: Stripe, PayPal, Payoneer, USDT.

A Note on Who We Are

Dmitrii Podobriaev, a composite engineer with 20+ years in marine and automotive construction, runs this workshop. He replies to every email personally — not because it is in a policy document, but because every message goes to the same person who built the kit.

The people building these cars have been planning this for a long time. Some of them have been thinking about it since they were teenagers watching those stages or driving McRae’s car through a WRC stage on a PlayStation controller. They deserve a kit that fits without remedial work, a supplier who answers questions, and reference material that is specific enough to be genuinely useful.

That is what April is for.

If a GC/GF build has been on your radar and the timing hasn’t been right, this is the month to move on it.

Common Questions

Why are the original Japanese wide-body kits no longer available? Charge Speed, C-West, and Odula stopped producing GC/GF kits in the early 2000s or closed entirely. Original kits now trade above donor car values and show age damage — UV yellowing, stress fractures — from decades in storage. That era of supply is finished.

How does fitment compare to those original kits? Each kit is moulded from a 3D scan of original Impreza body panels using CNC-milled tooling — not approximated from photos or measurements. Twelve years of production on this platform means every fitment issue is solved in tooling, not in the install manual. The GF wagon rear arch geometry — the hardest problem — is baked in.

What materials are available? Hand-laid European-grade fiberglass (1–2mm controlled thickness, engineered flex) or vacuum-infused carbon fibre (structural-grade, not decorative wrapping). Full material and specification comparison in the Hub.

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