12k + 900 for shipping to your port is still less than you prolly spent on your Recaros.





http://www.batfa.com/usedvehicles-honda-stock.html

 

Say what???

 

Pretty good price. Heres one I found on a local board:

http://www.craigslist.org/eby/car/36863571.html

 

Whats the point of this. What about registration, mileage, history (completely unknown ) not to mention everyone who cant afford it will want to take it from you.

And whos Recaros are you talking about?

 

this one's a first...

http://www.batfa.com/photo3312beat91,silver.htm

 

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race car, show car, replacment for stripped down tub ect.

if there are people buying cars from IL4 or that other craig list link than 13K is a pretty good deal compared to 18K from JHPUSA ect.

+ batfa is well known and do good deals not shady cash only don't ask about the vin deals

 

12k for a non registered ITR + port charges = rip.

what services does that provide?

it probably would be cheaper if i flew to japan, got a translator, went to honda verno and picked up a used one then shipped it back myself, not to mention a good time in japan

 

It seems everyone is not so industrious

A four door in crap condition was just sold for 11K needing a rear trunk lid and glass unregistered and somebody paid for it happily

for 13k you can do alot of things but show me a site that has a clean driveable no incident no rust car like this for less

 

haa haa dont forget the import tax fees on the value of the car... let alone the port charges.

 

I was told 12,900 clears everything to pick up at the Port of Los Angles.

there are prolly a billion other ways to do it

plane trip to japan is gonna run 2k with transpo food ect the car 9K so it's not really much cheaper and Batfa is a pro at this kind of thing so all the other hassles like customs will be alot less. Plus they provide vehicle history and there own certified vehicle inspection which is recognized by the government of Japan

I've seen other examples imported by other so called "importers" and also seen some of them not start as they were salvaged from the floods they had a few years back and were never started.

 

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wow thats crazy

 

nice itr!

 

id prefer this one...
http://www.batfa.com/new_car_h...r.htm

 

I have been thinking of getting a JDM car, such as an EG or even a type R. then removing everything from the JDM car and putting it on a USDM car.

does anyone know a web site where it will tell everything, how to get it on US Soil as a 'track car' or a 'parts car'? I know you have to go through customs, and through the ? DMV ?, but is this it. or can I just pick it up at a port, declare customs, trailer it home, and start rippin it apart?

 

the site is "batfa.com"?
do they batfa you after they take the money???
either wasy, just make sure that everything is included with the price, cause customs will not release the car without proper documents and fees paid. so they might ship it to a port near you, but remember after the port it has to clear customs before it can leave.

 

Not a bad price really...good luck gettin it threw US Customs

mikehonda- who's been down this road more than once

 

Can i drive a right hand side car in US legally? What's the thing that I need to do to get it legalize in the states?

 

to do things legally in the US you gotta prove a crash report, get different glass in it, do stupid **** like change the seat belts, put the "objects in mirror are closer...." on the mirrors, its a big hassle. some people that trailor there vehicles everywhere and just cruise them go and get a wrecked or a "salvage title" or a really really trashed vehicle of USDM of the same year/make/model, and swap vin plates. If you get nailed, you are looking at a **** load of fee's and penelties though.

now, im just courious if I can get one through customs for "parts only" or "track car". I have heard that its very very simple to do that, just provide proof that the car is yours, its not gonna see the steet, and trailer it away. then swap everything into your USDM car.

there are sites like http://www.skylinegtr.com that tell how to import a car/what it takes.
click here.... http://www.skylinegtr.com/q&a_pg.html it talks about importing a skyline, but the same things would apply for a honda. skylinegtr.com does not deal with honda's. why not, they are making there money importing/legalizing skylines. *humm, i sense a huge market/goldmine waiting to be uncovered....

 

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That is the biggest load of crap i've heard, he claims its a 99 car and its 4 lug 96spec????? and he's been offered $18k but cancelled the offer and will decide who gets the car by people telling him why they want it and all he wants is $8500, what a crock of ****!
I'm going to email him all the same with some BS story

 

Well even if you get it shipped over here you will not be driving it/ towing it/ trailering it off the port without proper documentation...which is more than just a bill of sale. And if you get the paperwork stating that the car is a "show or track" car you still can't drive it. BUT.... right hand drive vehicles CAN be registered as gray market vehicles and any "registered importer" can do the paperwork and work on the car for you.

Here is the nhsta page with all kinds of good info......
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/cars/rules/import/

Here is the list of registered importers......
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/cars/....html
notice motorex is the 7th one down...yes this is how to properly drive a rhd car without worrying about getting pulled over or going to jail for swapping vins...or worrying about never being able to sell your vehicle.....

well that's my 2 cents.....
if your gonna import a jdm vehicle , theres no point in it being a parts car.

 

mine went through dot inspections,
1. prove a crash report... you either bring 3 extra teg for them to crash or have a letter from the manufacturer stating that aside from being rhd the frame is built and designed the same so it should perform the same in a crash. a letter from the manufacturer is hard to get btw.
2. replace all glass and seat belts... no you don't they are both DOT and have DOT stampings on them, (if your in doubt come look at my car you can see them)
3. no you don't have to put a sticker on the side mirrors.
4. you will need to add front and rear bumper beams, rear was easy, but the front was tricky.
the biggest issue i had and almost cost my car not to get the release was the front end. its not DOT lights and beam pattern was off. but after shimming the lights (they aimed really shitty) and re-wiring the park and signal to work as U.S. standard they reconsidered. the guy told us that he's only realising it cause we did almost everything but replace the front end, abd even that we tried hard to get he lights to work fine. so the car got released.
now after DOT off to the epa, you will need a U.S. emissions on the car.
this is the tricky part. mine being a 96 spec would have to be converted to obdII, (jdm cars are obdI) luckylly the date first sold and registered for the car was june of 95, so the car was clasified as a 1995 honda integra. (there was nothing onrthe paper that says 96, so they went by year first sold.)
you will need to replace the ecu,cat,exhaust manifoldand add a purge control solenoid on the evap canister. with the current california emissions standards you will need to lower tjhe compression, so you will need to replace the head gasket with a thicker one. (nox rating)
after you get your emmisions label from epa, i had to go back to customs office for the final documents to take to dmv.
dmv is a whole new different task.
they required me to
have the car inspected by chp and had a vin stamped on it. but all was un-nessecary since customs,dot already stamped a vin, but dmv would not reconise it being less than 17digit. so not arguing i just went with what they told me to do.
chp used the same DC2-xxxxxxx number and just stamped the door jamb.
so 4 months later some lute, i got the plates and registration.
95-honda vin# DC2-xxxxxxx, gray market,clean tittle.

swapping vins can land you in federal prison as its a federal offense to tamper with it.
i checked and your not even suppose to cut and re-use the cars old vin when re-placing firewall(rhd converssion) after a conversion your suppose have the car inspected and they will issue the vin to the car.if you claimed a jdm car to be a converssion and it got inspected, you will have to explain why there are no weld marks, and why is it that the car does not have the vin# (there ae hidden vins on the chassis) on the rest of the car that was not cut and welded.

so yes you can import a gray market car, its easier if its already lhd and there is a same car here.

btw, you will need a daam good reason to why yoy need this car. a simple "cause i want one" and customs will not clear.
i recomend talk to a custom agent that deals with gray market cars, before anyone send money to any importer.

edit.
all itr will have to be converted to obdII as itr were only available in 97+ here, and they will need srs.
i believe it was 97 models when they mandate srs system. up until then they were only optional, (if a car came with them you cannot remove them, but if it came without it was ok. but all 97+ must have srs)
to make it easy, go buy a 95 honda (95 over there are 96 specs so it will have the front end most people like)

 

^^ Im going to paypal you a cookie, best info I've ever read on importing a jdm car and from someone who isnt a retard too. btw eg1r your a retard

 

Sounds like a real PITA!
That sounds like a shitload of work, but then you get to pass on two lane roads sittting on the right side of the car (that would seem like the more difficult part).

 

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the difficult part is turning left at stoplights with a car across from you. You cant see around them

 

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It's not bad at all. I drove a rhd drive EG for two weeks. After about 5mins of driving I was use to it.