t5's are silly high geared anyway

the last box in my impreza was also silly high geared too as its had 3.9 diff in a uk gearbox so the idea was lower revs so less fuel wasted when i sit on the motorway at around a ton to 120 ( germany ofcourse)

down side is the car dont have the power to push the gears required and the powerband was also all wrong for it with the size of the turbo so it was bloody slow to drive than the old box but was mint on fuel when i got it going but had to down shift to 4th on motorways to get the speed back up