After twenty years of playing my American HSS Strat I wanted something a little more "classic" sounding, but without the cost of having to buy a new guitar -- that's exactly what I got!
INSTALLATION: as a prewired setup the installation was super easy and only needed a little soldering to connect the jack.
SOUND: very good classic Strat sound. Perhaps the only complaint is that these pickups are quite "hot". I combatted that by lowering the pickup height (quite a lot actually) but this now sounds great.
LOOKS: the original pickguard and pickups on my Strat are the same colour, these are not (you can see that in the photo). I suppose it doesn't really matter, and now after a few months I don't even notice it anymore.