AWD---The wheels are turning

[starflare21]

Sort of, but not over seas. And not for a temporary duty station.

There is a lot of jargon involved on that one.

Also, Skylines we have in the States are not coming from Japan. They are out of Australia. Yes, they are built in Japan, imported for sale in Australia. And sold in Australia to the company that imports them here, puts CARB legal emissions equipment on it and there you go.

Yes, you can technically ship a car anyway, but the freight costs from Japan to the US are expensive. And, yes you can technically not touch it and claim it as a track car only. They were doing that with the Lotus a couple years back. But, there is still a lot of PITA paper work do that.

legality wise Motorex was the first to start to do it. now i think RB Motoring is doing it as well. companies like these do get quite mad when you try and bypass them and don't be suprised if you get sent a lawsuit for doing so (they've done it in the past to a few and they had to go direct through them after).

you can claim as a race car but of course like you said there's a crap load of paper work needed to be done and the car can only stay for a year anyway. of course you can always just pay around $25k for all the fees and such to legalize a car (one of my bosses had done that w/ his renault).

 

[jred321]

just out of curiousity, about how much would it cost to get an awd protege in japan if you say , are stationed there in the US Mil.. shipping it back wouldnt be a problem..

thats if i get stationed in Japanese, I am gonna try my hardest though..

i'd say just buy one in japan, ship it back, and use the vin from a us p5 to register it. it wouldn't be exactly legal, but it's been done

 

[70]

legality wise Motorex was the first to start to do it. now i think RB Motoring is doing it as well. companies like these do get quite mad when you try and bypass them and don't be suprised if you get sent a lawsuit for doing so (they've done it in the past to a few and they had to go direct through them after).

you can claim as a race car but of course like you said there's a crap load of paper work needed to be done and the car can only stay for a year anyway. of course you can always just pay around $25k for all the fees and such to legalize a car (one of my bosses had done that w/ his renault).

Nice...I didn't realize they started going after people who tried to import their own cars.

I'd like to get them to import a Ford Falcon XR-6T for me...

 

[starflare21]

Nice...I didn't realize they started going after people who tried to import their own cars.

I'd like to get them to import a Ford Falcon XR-6T for me...

yep, met a guy once before that had an R32 GT-R he bought in japan (was the original owner. think it was a '92). had a couple of mods and such on it, tried to import himself. motorex found out and handed him a fine lawsuit. through all the court fees and crap he still ended up having to pay to have them legalize it. this was a a year or so back though.

i'd say just buy one in japan, ship it back, and use the vin from a us p5 to register it. it wouldn't be exactly legal, but it's been done

i'd say the first and biggest problem is getting it past customs (shoving it into a container only works sometimes). one of my friends had bought a crashed EVO IV in japan and they made him cut it in half to get it back to the states.

 

[jred321]

i'd say the first and biggest problem is getting it past customs (shoving it into a container only works sometimes). one of my friends had bought a crashed EVO IV in japan and they made him cut it in half to get it back to the states.

that sucks, can't you just tell them it's for racing only? or will they not buy that

 

[scotthidley]

I plan on running my stock rims and tires while I'm making my money back. No need for big sticky tires when they all pull.

Just an fyi, I had 235/45 R17 Dunlop SP8000's, and I've still smoked those off the line. I have 225/45 R17 Dunlop SP9090's now, and have broken those free from a roll in first (the car isn't tuned at all right now). You should consider getting better tires. Nobody is going to expect a 90k mile car to have stock tires anyways. Keeping the stock rims is a good idea though.

 

[redrims]

you can ship a car from basically anywhere to anywhere. It's just gonna be a whole s*** load of money to ship it in a big ass crate. Call a shipping company, but I think it is not worth it. Plus, I don't know what kind of trouble you would run into over here to be able to rejister it for road use. If you wanna keep it as a track car than you don't have to worry about that.

He can do what a lot of JDM Silvia owners do. They swap VIN#'s with 240s. They are practically the same car. If he can buy a wrecked protege over here, all he has to do is switch the VIN#. Simple as that.

 

[redrims]

i'd say just buy one in japan, ship it back, and use the vin from a us p5 to register it. it wouldn't be exactly legal, but it's been done

yeh, what he said..

 

[jred321]

 

[70]

He can do what a lot of JDM Silvia owners do. They swap VIN#'s with 240s. They are practically the same car. If he can buy a wrecked protege over here, all he has to do is switch the VIN#. Simple as that.

Who cares about fraud?

 

[AZDriftR]

He can do what a lot of JDM Silvia owners do. They swap VIN#'s with 240s. They are practically the same car. If he can buy a wrecked protege over here, all he has to do is switch the VIN#. Simple as that.

just like in the original gone in 60 seconds..hehe

 

[redrims]

Who cares about fraud?

what they don't know can't hurt you...lol

Seriously, what are the chances of them finding out? Slim to none. I haven't heard of a single Silvia with a 240 VIN# get figured out and I doubt any will.

 

[70]

what they don't know can't hurt you...lol

Seriously, what are the chances of them finding out? Slim to none. I haven't heard of a single Silvia with a 240 VIN# get figured out and I doubt any will.

It's only a matter of time...

And then say good buy car and hello jail.

 

[AZDriftR]

It's only a matter of time...

And then say good buy car and hello jail.

well with the vins changed its almost impossible to tell if it is really JDM.. there really arnt any other ways to tell, i mean there r so many ppl the do the j-spec conversions and such it would be very hard. and if u got it up to carb legal specs then i think it would never be found out

 

[Aricjm15]

yeah nobody would notice that your car is right hand drive, what are you going to tell them "it was made to deliver mail"

 

[NRRfrogmanP5]

hhahhahaha lol^^

 

[jred321]

yeah nobody would notice that your car is right hand drive, what are you going to tell them "it was made to deliver mail"

you've never seen a US car with a rhd conversion?

 

[SpicyMchaggis]

yeah, a buddy of mine has an old subaru wagon that is rhd..he in fact does the rural route mail..pretty cool car.

 

[AZDriftR]

i see RHD cars at shows all the time

 

[redrims]

yeah nobody would notice that your car is right hand drive, what are you going to tell them "it was made to deliver mail"

People are doing rhd conversions now to US cars. Gotta have that fake jdm look...lol