Smog Check in California Exempted Vehicles Just about everything in California gets a smog check every two years. That includes gasoline, propane, ethanol, and natural gas powered vehicles. There are areas in California that don't get biennial smog chec ...
Show or Display is a special National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) exemption, that allows certain approved vehicles to be imported legally to the US, without meeting Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) requirements. The Show or Display exemptio ...
The Built by Legends R32 GT-R will be headed to the US soon. Look for it coming up middle of 2021. In this episode, we meet the people behind the new project of making perhaps the finest JDM restomod cars from Japan. Built by Legends. This is a new project th ...
SEMA Garage Emissions Lab SEMA Garage has their own in house emissions testing lab. This video shows some of their capability. Although their lab is certified to do California testing, they are not a Direct Import vehicle certified lab. What is a used direct import vehic ...
The Nissan Skyline GT-R has a number of fluid systems that it uses. Nissan's recommendations on fluid types for R32/R33/R34Engine Oil - 7.5 - 30 (10-30 for a street car, 15-50 on a track car) - 4.5 litersOil Filter - OEM 15208-60U00 OEM R32 AY100-NS007 K & N HP-2008 ...
The JDM Honda Integra Type R, was known as an Acura Integra Type R in the US. Acura was created as an upscale brand under the Honda banner in 1986. Acuras purpose was to market performance, and luxuxy vehicles. The first Japanese luxury brand, Toyota followed with Lexus, a ...
Autech was founded in 1986 as a subsidary of Nissan to tune and convert Nissan cars. The cars converted by Autech are sold through Nissan dealerships in Japan. Over the years Autech has built a number of specialty vehicles, and currently they make vehicles more usable to ...
Japanese Icons Restored to Perfection Modified to Perform Optimally Balanced Built By Legends Project Gojira Reborn is a Nissan Skyline R32 GT-R built and tuned by Built by Legends with Mines to be the ultimate R32 GT-R, without going over the top or making com ...
R32 GT-R being converted to left hand drive Nissan only sold the Nissan Skyline in Japan, other than some small quantities in countries like the UK, Hong Kong, Australia, and New Zealand. In each of these countries, they use right hand drive cars, so a left hand drive ver ...
NISMO launches bare-metal, balanced-chassis, nut-and-bolt restoration program for Nissan Skyline GT-R The guys over at Japanese Nostalgic Car just posted a ton of pictures and information about Nismos new full restoration option for its heritage program. Standard referenc ...
