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BadMouth:
--- Quote from: twistedsymphony on May 27, 2014, 11:36:10 am ---I also have a 1989 Toyota Pickup with about 7inches of lift on 35" mud tires:
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I've owned four of those little Toyota trucks with the 22R engine. (an 83, 84, 88, & 93).
They keep going forever and if something does break, it's usually cheap to fix.
It's a shame we never go the diesel version in the U.S.
twistedsymphony:
Very true. this is my 3rd Toyota pickup, though the first one with a 22RE... believe it or no that truck has over 275K miles on it ;D
Though I'm heavily considering swapping out the 22RE for either a 3RZ-FE or a 5VZ-FE... despite running like a champ the thing rattles and barely has enough power to get out of it's own way.
Warborg:
--- Quote from: Malenko on June 05, 2014, 08:46:59 am ---started with a 1994 Dodge Shadow as my first car, then I had a 98 Eclipse RS, then a 93 Eclipse, then a 97 Eclipse GSX, now I have a Scion tC. I was a total gear head (read: NOT RICER) with my eclipses. Bored and stroked the GSX motor to a 2.4 with a giant ass turbo, it got nearly 500 HP at the wheels, but after the SECOND blown head gasket I decided to get a fairly fuel efficient car that happens to have the same initials as me.
Warborg, HAHN still makes turbo kits for that car, night and day difference (had a STAR kit on my 98 RS) much better investment than a CAI.
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Oh, I realize that a turbo would make MUCH more power than just a CAI... But I'm just putting a generic CAI intake on there to tinker, I don't expect a huge gain... I bought this car because for the past several years I had to have more practical cars because of having kids, but now that they are all grown and drive themselves around, I got something just to have some fun with and never had any intention of setting it up as a balls-to-the-wall speedster... Just open up the intake and exhaust a little, and do a couple of tweaks to the suspension and I'll be happy.
Fursphere:
--- Quote from: twistedsymphony on June 05, 2014, 08:20:16 am ---
--- Quote from: Fursphere on June 05, 2014, 12:52:22 am ---I drive a 2006 Honda Civic back and forth to the office everyday. Its actually pretty fun to drive for being such a "basic" car.
When I lived in Japan (Okinawa specifically) years ago, I had a 1988 Nissan Skyline. That car was FUN, even though it was older. (it cost me a pack of cigarettes... no joke). I was tempted to bring it back home to the USA with me, but getting it through DMV would have been a nitemare - if not impossible. I used to sit on the edge of base I was stationed on and watch the locals drift late at night. Technically, its against the law to even watch people break the law in Japan (contributing), but since I was on US soil, they left us alone. :)
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That's pretty awesome.
As for your skyline, unless the model was originally sold in the us and crash-tested and emissions tested it needs to be at least 25 years old in order to be elegible for import...
So your 1988 skyline, since it was never sold in the US, only became legal for import last year.
With that said I have indeed seen members of the military manage to get illegal cars into the US through whatever channels that military uses (since I guess you can somehow bypass the normal port authority?) most states don't care if the car is imported as long as it passes the local inspection laws. The only real restrictions are at the federal level.
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Ya, that was back in 2002/2003.
I never had the military ship any of my cars around, so I'm not sure of the exact details. At the time, for $2000 you could pack a shipping container with whatever you wanted and get it shipped to a US port. Getting it through customs was your problem though. The little I looked into it I'd have to bring the glass up to US code, install safety bars / supports in the doors, AND swap it to a left side driver (since no US versions were ever made, that would be one hell of a hack job).
The thing about Japan is that every two years they've got a "JTI" - "Japanese Technical Inspection". Its similar to the US version of a "smog" check, but they go over the whole damn car. If anything is leaking, you have to fix it before you get it back on the road. So you'll find almost brand new cars in the junk yards over there - its cheaper to buy a new car than it is to fix a lot of the stuff. At least that's how it was in Okinawa.
twistedsymphony:
I don't think left hand drive is a requirement in the US since it's perfectly legal to buy and own right hand drive vehicle for use as delivery vehicles (like the right hand drive Subarus and Jeeps that the postal service workers use)
You definitely have to have safety and emissions equipment up to spec though :-\
here in NH we have to have annual safety inspections in addition to emissions testing. They fail you for any leaks fluid or fume leaks, rot, lose suspension bits, people just keep patching ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- up though... it's a shame I'd love to have practically new cars in the scrap yards to pic parts off of :lol
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