Legalizing an import

Legalizing an import

I was wondering......lets say u were to import an r34, hypothetically of course....firstly, those retail for like $40-50k US, but cost like an additional $40-50k US to ship to the US (why its so high, i dunno)....it cost an additional $30k US to have someone legalize the engine to meet EPA standards.....

What I wanna kno is this....to meet EPA standards, they strip down the engine and modify or remove the parts from it.....shipping set aside, would u be able to just do a USDM engine swap instead n take care of the issue for much less......also, what about those people who have skyline engine swaps, do they no longer meet US standards?

Motorex have already paid a 3rd party company for the testing and it is very easy to get a Skyline legalized right now for around 10.. Ofcourse Motorex is running a monopoly, so you could probabaly find others who could do it for less. A local guy here legalised a JDM GC8 for 6k

I think the whole importing thing is just such a big business..... the US of course takes advantage of it cause they know import owners are willing to pay anything to get the car in the states.... big monopoly but I guess when it comes to a skyline it's well worth it lol

what about importing those cars from other countries? like australia, the dominican republic or jamaica? i know those countries have the jdm cars straight from japan, right hand drive and all.

at the very least shiping cost would be less.

yea true but w/e you don't pay for the price of the car the legalizing part is expensive as hell.... for my Clio RXT which is turbo and stuff they wanted to put a governors and all that crap and charge me like 20 grand I'm like wtf? hell no so that's why I didn't bring it

Eh, i dont think i would pay for an imported GC8...id just take whats here...newayz, yea, i kno bout motorex n what they do n all...

but still the question remains...shipping set aside, would u be able to just do a USDM engine swap instead n take care of the issue for much less......also, what about those people who have skyline engine swaps, do they no longer meet US standards?

3k to legalize over here in TEXAS

my friend is selling his skyline rhd, 96 turbocharged.....bronze 18" rims, white body, 10k upfront, 5k in payments, and 3k to legalize.........total 18k

probably not an r34 tho.....if its 3k to legalize an r34 over there then heck, im takin the 3.5 hour drive to dallas if i ever get a jdm car...

why is everything usually cheaper in our state? yeah some things are jsut cheaper and wined up freaking people out.

01rolla where in texas are you?

deep south right next to Mcallen, a city called Pharr i live in Hidalgo County (Rio Grande Valley Area)







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and you north, south, east , west , blah ,blah

ohhh..........ok...

mexico is right next door so legalizing a car is just harder in some areas but easier in others. legalizing a USDM vehicle in mexico is very easy.

hey a 96 skyline is the r33 right? well all i know is that my friends is turbocharged and fucking looks cool!!!!!!!!!...

I dont think they sell
Type RA STi Imprezas in the US


Join the military and they'll ship your cars to whereever you're station for free


As for legalisation info
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/cars/rules/import/

And if we don't legalize it? I mean, I know a good amount of states do emmisions testing and all, but in FL we don't...how would one know outside of seeing right hand drive and assuming?

i'd imagine it'll be like driving around in a car with expired/no registration or insurance.. thats if the customs even let you take it off the port.

Weird how I neglected to think about the little things like customs...oh well...

well oklahoma is the same way, no inspections period. But you'll be able to smell the fumes real easily, also they take higher octane fuel....and also, driving around in an r34, you're gonna be a high profile car for the cops, one of those cars you turn n look at more than twice, rhd yes, and i dont think you're gonna be able to put insurance on an imported un"USDM"ed car, but i dunno....if i had an r34, i kno id take it down the cruise spot every saturday, lol...

the customs agents here at the border are so screwed up they get paid on the side by "others" to allow them to transport "shit" back and forth. this year they caught 6 agents lower than the 9 we had last year.