white 240 rhd...

KA-T_240

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.

DrifterExtreme

kidnapping??? what is he a gangstar....haha

KA-T_240

DrifterExtreme;187994 wrote:
kidnapping??? what is he a gangstar....haha

pretty much. actaully come to think of it, he was sent back to Japan. I do remember his jail sentance was not from the cars. It was other activities that he was involved in.

Hatchling

I think that the s13 and s14 share the same chassis as the corresponding 240sx of those years, you might be able to bypass the crash testing that way. Just a thought.

KA-T_240

Hatchling;188005 wrote:
I think that the s13 and s14 share the same chassis as the corresponding 240sx of those years, you might be able to bypass the crash testing that way. Just a thought.

Yes...

thats true and why they are easier to do.

Afsil80

thrash;187923 wrote:
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

You can get a legalized R-32 for under $18k. There are loopholes. And Progressive Auto insures Nissan R-chassis cars, as well as USAA, but not everyone can get USAA.

untitledfolder

Afsil80;188012 wrote:
You can get a legalized R-32 for under $18k. There are loopholes. And Progressive Auto insures Nissan R-chassis cars, as well as USAA, but not everyone can get USAA.

time to start saving...

GarageAlchemist

Ford Probes are gay

blindsp1

yep hung with him on saturday, i guess he bought it for 15000 and put 17000 in it

capitlj

I think we can all agree that ford probes are gay

thrash

OK -- so a S13 or S14 is "easier" because nobody has to crash test it in the US if Nissan will say "yeah, that's just a 240SX of such and such year".

And, none of the cars we're talking about are 100% "legal" here unless they were a Motorex car (for skyline R33s), or if they were a Silvia that got Nissan to say "yes, that thing is fine".

Basically for a JDM car to be legit here, you have to go the Motorex route (for a chassis family that never exited here), or you have to convince Nissan/Toyota/whomever to say that it is equivalent to a model already tested/sold here.

Anyone have details on progressive insuring Skylines? That's quite a surprise.. they won't even do an agreed value policy on one of my cars..

Afsil80

I can't quite agree with the 100% legal thing.

IMO, it's one or the other. It's either legal, or illegal. There's no 'Ok you meet 90% of expectations so here's a US title.'

And like I said, there are loopholes that allow someone to reach 100% state legal ON PAPER, which is all that most people are concerned about. I can guarantee that half of the 'legal' R-chassis cars in the US are not truly legal, but if they have a state title, tag, and insurance policy, they are legal in the eyes of Johnny Law.

I know my post is kinda incoherent, but i'll try to break it down farther the best that I can if need be.

KA-T_240

blindsp1;188043 wrote:
yep hung with him on saturday, i guess he bought it for 15000 and put 17000 in it

Where did you hang with him on sat?

He was feeding you BS if he said that. There is not 17k in mods on the car even if he bought it stock. He told me he got the bolt in case and rims, everything else was on the car. It possibly has a built motor, but if so, why does it have a shitty turbo setup(bottom mount stock turbo)

untitledfolder

http://tyndago.googlepages.com/motorexstory

a good view on the Motorex story. RB motorsports also has a bunch of info on maintaining the Skyline's in the US with substitutable parts from US cars.

KA-T_240

^there is also a nissan dealer in cali that has a HUGE parts department full of JDM goodies for S and R chassis cars.

Afsil80

Werd, there's a few dealers across the country that will deal in JDM parts. The one near my hometown does (also a NICO sponsor), and the parts manager is one of my best friends, haha.

KA-T_240

Afsil80;188107 wrote:
Werd, there's a few dealers across the country that will deal in JDM parts. The one near my hometown does (also a NICO sponsor), and the parts manager is one of my best friends, haha.

Hook up on parts? for me

Afsil80

Dunno, he hates KA's, and his turbo GS-R is faster than any T28 SR that I've ever seen.

He says RB or CA, nothing else, haha!

blindsp1

KA-T_240;188060 wrote:
Where did you hang with him on sat?

He was feeding you BS if he said that. There is not 17k in mods on the car even if he bought it stock. He told me he got the bolt in case and rims, everything else was on the car. It possibly has a built motor, but if so, why does it have a shitty turbo setup(bottom mount stock turbo)
saw him and my buddy from school at honda getting ready to test drive a s2k and he told me at school today

KA-T_240

Afsil80;188156 wrote:
Dunno, he hates KA's, and his turbo GS-R is faster than any T28 SR that I've ever seen.

He says RB or CA, nothing else, haha!

Its pretty BA a turbo GSR... ahahaahahahahaha a t28 sr is slow.

Unless you are craig from williston(sp). He ran 10.8@126 on a gt2871r

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