I just wanna say: THANKS FOR COMING BACK AND UPDATING THE POST.
Oh gawd I felt so guilty about not posting so many times before I finally did. You are welcome, and thanks again.
Link to the fuel hose recall? Mine are doing the same on my EJ207.
This is the best I could find quickly as to something official:
https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2009/RCDNN-09V468-8866.pdfThe Technical Service Bulletin that Subaru issued is TSB 09-36-03, but I couldn't find it quickly. It lists 2002 as the earliest year, but that's due to that being the first year in North America, my 2001 obviously has the same problem. Also, I should clarify, I only replaced the old hoses with supple new hose and bent my lines straight again. I did not replace the metal lines with the shorter ones, so mine may leak again, but I also used better clamps, so fingeys crossed. I've attached some pics below for reference. There is lots of info online about this problem, just google
Subaru fuel hose leak and you'll see.
These are the two rubber bastards that live under the turbo inlet pipe, you can see the awesome clamp orientation, but it turned out they were so loose I could spin the clamps around easily... You can also see how the bottom hose is crooked as hell, which I'm sure helped it leak.
I couldn't believe how friggin close together these were after I removed the hose, but the top one was even CLOSER together... This made fitting the new hose very difficult, as I'm sure you could imagine.
Oh and don't forget there's one more connection behind the A/C pump which was also loose AF. Don't have a close up picture, but you can see it in this photo marked with a green arrow.
No stinky cold starts yet!