SiSMITTY

Im trying to find anyone with information on importing vehicles from japan... Need to find someone who was successful in doing so or anyone with info on the proccess. Thank you

Rotten Egg

welcome to honda tech, u wont find what u need

Arthas

Post a screen shot of your bank account funds and well see if its a waste of time to help you.

SiSMITTY

Damnit... I thought this would be the place...I need to find someone who has done it.

Typo_R

do the japaneese do lhd conversions? like were all stoked off of rhd cuz its baller over here but is lhd super baller in japan?

majrneo

i seriously doubt that

Driving a RHD in a LHD country can be "Baller" status to some but its "PITA" status for others.

i guess same applies to japan.

jaerikd

I have a CTR from Japan i brought over. Cost alot of $$$$...And to get it legally registared in Cali is even harder. Customs is a bitch..

jaerikd

Went from Japan to the philippines then from the philippines to the USA

SiSMITTY

Sweet. Is it easier to go throught he phillipines or something? Im looking at seriously doing this. I will be in the same situation with registering it in cali. What kinda of money are we talking, roughly of course, to get that thing over here and registered? excluding the actual price of the car...

spoolinsnail

i heard they like muscle over their... who would have known.

madu

LHD stuff like Benzes or Porsches is considered pretty baller in Japan.

camelflage

you're looking at 10k or more to get a car federalized to US DOT...

coquieg6

there are some websites that import cars to the USA on auction, try googling importing a car japan. that might help. but what ill do is try looking for one that has already been imported, its not going to be cheap. but itll break even with importing it yourself and save you all the hassle and paper work.

PERSONally, i would just make my own type-r, they sell all the jdm pieces apart, BI6B, if you import the engine alone, emissions wont F@&^ with you, LHD conversion w. jdm dashboard. and youre done with money left over to tune everything. personally jdm type rs are overrated, ive seen sicker cars here in the states.

hope it helps. take it easy.

kaiba

RHD is overrated.

SiSMITTY

Is it hard to find one already imported? Seems like nobody has any. In cali at least. Thanks for everyones help so far.

coquieg6

http://www.hondaclub.com/forum/vehic...d-rhd-jdm.html

here you go boss, it aint cheap =P

SiSMITTY

He dropped the price to $12,000. That's not bad for already been imported... Im going to look into that one. Thanks bro...

coquieg6

no prob, just google around ctr for sale for other ctr's. but that one looks like a good deal. also, if looking for performance spoon has a block for the ctr that revs upto 10,000 rpm, its killer.

smiko0124

check out gpeedcorp.com and look for "shorsh" here on hondatech. he imports cars all the time.

EusebioSam19

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gspeedcorp.com
ask for shorsh

D3vin

The shipping alone will cost you a fortune, possibly cost more than the car itself. You might want to talk to the engine import companies over in Japan, see if they can send cars internationally.

camelflage

you could always just import a front clip.... pull the motor and RHD stuff out of there...

i toyed with the idea for the IS300 / Altezza conversion, but RHD wasnt important enough for me to spend the money.

fungus mungus

My father-in-law is a car dealer in Japan so I can buy any car I want there. Believe me, when I see $3K SiR IIs over there, I'm really tempted. Unfortunately, if I did, the car would have to stay there. :/

Even if you get a car in the states, how are you going to register it in CA? Emissions are already a b*tch. I'd really like to know 'cause there's a guy selling a sweet looking EG hatch from Japan for less than 6K.

Muscle isn't big in Japan...never really was. I've seen a few muscle cars, but the real baller cars are the Porches and Mercedes. One of my coworkers had a Chevy Tahoe though...big pain in the @ss for him to drive there. Never understood that, especially with gas being $8/gallon.

fm

nels00n

get in contact with this man he might be able to help you out

https://honda-tech.com/forums/members/kotic-999496764/

Frost7177

theresa place in philly pa that sellis ctrs del sols jdm integra type r's and jdm crx/ Its called jdmexchange.com their called elite motor sports when it comes uip now.. The cars are already in the states and if your willing to spend money on importing one over you can spend money on a uhaul try and a tow dolly and drive it back to cali. Imo its not worth it. The bling factor wears off after a month when you try to go to mc donalds and have to go back wards then you look like a complete moron.