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Ya know I'm not an import guy but I like the silvia front ends especially the s15's That thing is pretty sweet, like faber said boo on the bolt in cage tho.
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thrash;187835 wrote:
i claim BS. If that car is as hard to federalize as a GT-R, there's no way he went through and crossed his T's and dotted his I's. Who did the crash testing?The headlights -> hood gap looks wrong to me, and the amber turn signals on the air dam look wrong also.
Part of me says I'd bring over an R-32 GT-R and never register it.. just drive it at the track... but thats a lot of coin for not a lot of driving.. and I've already got a track car.
Isn't it true that once a vehicle is 25 years old you can import it no questions asked (comparatively) ? If so, 2015 is when you'll be able to bring over R-32 GT-Rs and street them easily/legally. It might be worth it to bring some over now, put them in a barn, and sit on them. Hrmm
I am not even going to start. Look at peters post.
what about all the EDM and JDM front end conversions..... Ebay lights, HID swaps.....
Also, a R32 is not that expensive, you just see all the hardcore overpriced shit on the US forums.
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There is also skyline in brainerd. I saw it last time i was down there. Maroon with basically stock exterior but some stickers.
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well, the way i read this thread, somebody said
"it's just a s14, so you don't have to do crash testing"
and somebody else said
"its the same amount of work to do a skyline gt-r"
One of those two statements has to be false, unless i am misunderstanding one of them.
What's the disconnect?
And yeah -- R32's aren't that expensive.. i think you could get one into the US for 10-15k if you didn't plan on federalizing it. That's still big coin for something you can't drive and can't insure
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Motorex in Washington did crash testing for the Skylines, you can also get legalized JDM cars through them.
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what is the purpose for spacers on the rear of the hood?
Monty
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let out heat?
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untitledfolder;187943 wrote:
Motorex in Washington did crash testing for the Skylines, you can also get legalized JDM cars through them.Motorex DID do skylines. They lied to the DOT. They fucked up, then the gov. made it harder to import/legalize. The only years of skylines that can attempt to be Federally approved legally right now are 95-96
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musthavemuzk;187969 wrote:
what is the purpose for spacers on the rear of the hood?Monty
They release heat. I have them, but way more then he does. They dont do any good, if you leave the rubber seals at the back of the hood. It works the same way a cowl hood on a old muscle car.
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thrash;187923 wrote:
well, the way i read this thread, somebody said"it's just a s14, so you don't have to do crash testing"
and somebody else said
"its the same amount of work to do a skyline gt-r"
One of those two statements has to be false, unless i am misunderstanding one of them. No, they are both right. If a car has a USDM counterpart that the OEM dealer will contest and prove in structuarally the same, it take less work to legalize. just needs to pass emissions, glass and lighting/obd2 complience.....
What's the disconnect?HUH?
And yeah -- R32's aren't that expensive.. i think you could get one into the US for 10-15k if you didn't plan on federalizing it. That's still big coin for something you can't drive and can't insure
When you get a R32, let me know, I will deliver one to your door with a full tank of gas.I hope you realize, except for the 50 or so motorex skylines and probably 5% of the others, every JDM vehicle in the US that is street driven in not federalized, and if it was, it got so by $$ being payed to the right people. To start doing federal legalizations for just 1 car/chassis, you will need MAJOR $$$$$$.
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KA-T_240;187980 wrote:
Motorex DID do skylines. They lied to the DOT. They fucked up, then the gov. made it harder to import/legalize.The owner got his ass thrown in the slammer for that too. I see there still in business, the website is till up at least, they don't do any importing themselves though.
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ichibankilla;187986 wrote:
The owner got his ass thrown in the slammer for that too. I see there still in business, the website is till up at least, they don't do any importing themselves though.The website is up again? Last i looked it was all shut down. On the nissan forums, locals to the shop said that it was pretty much empty everything closed up and chained, do not enter signs everywhere. I guess they may be somewhat open again, but not ever going to touch a skyline or any of that again.
The owner did not go to jail for the importing stuff. IIRC it was for accounting, kidnapping, and some other things.
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