Who on here has imported a car from japan
 

i would like to pick your brain for a lil bit. im working on something and need help with the registration proccess.

i didnt import one, but i did have one, i dont know if i can help u out at all or not

i don't have one...what are ytou picking up?

my guess is a 97 RA

There are a few ways you can do it - one obvious way would to just change the VIN plates on the car you are importing, register it as an older legacy so you can get by on the OBD1.

Another way would be the kit car method. What you can do, if you are importing a car is to take the motor or the transmission out of it, either one. Then you register the outbound freight as "car parts". The reason why you have to take one or the other out is because to legally classify as car parts, the object you are shipping cannot be a car that is functional.

Upon arrival, register the car as a kit car and slap the tranny back onto it.

Those are 2 ways that I know of doing, don't know about the legality of the VIN switch (I doubt it is), but the kit car method works. There is a 22B in new jersey where they used this I believe, saw a post about it on RS25 a long long time ago

If you want to import it as a show car, that's a whole nother story
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/cars/rules/...howDisplay.pdf

*edit*
Crap, forgot that they changed some **** up, http://www.epa.gov/otaq/imports/kitcar.htm

Kit car doesn't work.

thanks for the form, im waiting on a call from harrisbutg, i may just register it as a show car. and drive it

I have done it before. Pm me and we can talk. I had a type r imported in 98'. I can try and help you. Let me know.

cool get on aim when you get a chance

<---former Skyline owner

Well, skylines are a bit different. I forget which company (Im not going to throw names out because there was some company involved in a import scandal, I just dont want to label companies incorrectly) but they brought skylines over here to be crash tested and thus with modification they could be legalized.

Unless you want to pay for like 3-4 more authentic GC/GM 8s to be crash tested, its not gonna be as easy.

Regardless, I am interested in how you did it? Which company did you use and how did you register etc?

MotoREX = scandal shutdown.

im actually starting the process of improting a lancer ev0 5 and it looks to be like a major pita

we can get up a tristate army and then go over to japan on a boat. Then steal one when we find it and then bring it on the boat and then cover it. They will never know.