hello there, i am trying to purchase a car from japan, and i would like to know what i would have to do to get it passed through the inspection at dmv in florida... your help will be greatly appreciated.

 

need help soon!

 

My advice dont do it unless you have the time and money

 

got both.

 

Its not hard at all.You just need the money,Tampa racing wouldent be the best place to look for advice about importing a forgien car either.Good luck to you btw,What are you trying to import

 

call the dmv

 

i am looking to get a legit jdm civic , or integra type r

 

Cant legaly. Unless you perform all crash/DOT tests. and make sure everything is US spec. You can make it a track only car and not have to go through the hassle. Its like with the skylines and pusar gtirs you see around. Most of them are not federally legal. Yea there is a loophole that you can have the car shipped here in pieces and assemble it here, then register it as a kit car. But that is illegal, and if you get pulled over the car could be impounded indefinitely.

 

so how could i perform the crash tests? it would go through and get crashed and shit or ? i dnt understand. cuz there is a jdm integra locally that is supposedly "legit"

 

He either imported it illegally and switched VIN numbers with a usdm integra, or got a front clip and converted his. or he did what I told you above. In order for the crash tests to work you have to crash a certain number of cars, to see how to crash dynamics work on that specific vehicle. Then you have to change it to make sure it behaves like the usdm version when crashed. There is other threads about this, use the search engine. Trust me, Ive already looked it up. Im from Peru, and there I can get R33 skyline gtrs for 5000 dollars. If I could get that here legally I could make so much money, but the only company that has done the tests was motorex. They copyrighted all the parts that needed to be changed over. Smart thinking huh. Then got shut down by the feds because they were selling R32,R33s, and R34s when they had only done the tests for one of those.