# Making a JDM car street legal

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**Category:** NYSpeed Automotive\
**Created:** [July 13, 2006, 9:08pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/making-a-jdm-car-street-legal/14555 "2006-07-13T21:08:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![MaximaSE98](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/maximase98/32/7600_2.png) [@MaximaSE98](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MaximaSE98)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 5:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/making-a-jdm-car-street-legal/14555/7 "2006-07-14T05:01:43Z")

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> [@Zer0DazE](#):
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> no can do. if the car is not originally from canada thats not legal. if it was, i would be driving a skyline r32 already
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> you have said a bunch of times that you registered your car, but have never posted what flaming hoops you had to jump through. i would really like to know how you went about it.
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> anywho, im pretty sure that car is on the list of importable cars.  
> [http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/cars/rules/import/ELIG010906.html](http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/cars/rules/import/ELIG010906.html)  
> do a search for the documents on that site, the numbers should be next to the cars name.
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> generally its headlights, speedo, sideview mirrors, door brakes, dash brace, and parking brake light that need to be changed by a registered importer.  
> this is to do it legally

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i kiow me too…:(…i wish the US had that law if its 15yrs or older u can import them…but y bother with an s13…prolly cheaper to do an d SR20 and all the body conversion than it is to import it

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