After over a year of looking, ended up finding a gold forester xt hood on kijiji. Peeling off that 3m clear stuff is a pain.
annoyingly the new one is a slightly different gold.
Think I like the regular sized scoop compared to the large one I had on the previous hood. I think a 02-03 sti scoop would be a good medium, but they seem somewhat hard to come by for a reasonable price.
Using my finger gauge, the intercooler temperature with the smaller scoop with the modified stock splitter, is about the same as the big scoop with no splitter.
Sanding and polishing my headlights gave a remarkable improvement with is hard to capture on camera. Put some ceramic headlight coating that my neighbour lent me to protect it.
There's still some crazing in the plastic, so new headlights may be an eventual purchase.