I'm excited to announce that thejdm is now updated to the latest phpbb 3.2 software. You may notice the site is now mobile friendly but with the upgrade comes some hiccups. theGarage, theGallery, theArcade are no longer supported. In due time the developers should be working to release the modifications to work on the new software. #LetsMakeForumsGreatAgain
Your view on JDM
that would be me
.saint, the honda EK parts jdMuseum.
i hope i grow to be half the man my grandfather was.
poop.hell sideways.brigade
http://www.fright.house
i hope i grow to be half the man my grandfather was.
poop.hell sideways.brigade
http://www.fright.house
I found this artical on some cars archives it was from 98 way before JDM was the shit...
Who Needs A Legend When You Can Build Better For Less?
Everyone wants what they cannot have. Boys want ridiculous cars, like Lamborghinis and Vipers and such. Slightly older boys want what they see in the pages of an entirely different type of glossy magazine. Tons of folks living in Japan want Chevy Astro vans. (Go figure.) It is this innate desire for what we cannot have that drives the human psyche in general, and specifically, a Honda performance market gone mad for R.
No American Civic could possibly approach the sheer factory chic that the Cult of R has built up around Honda’s subtly, if completely, re-engineered overseas-only boy-racer. It is equal parts horsepower and myth that fuel the Civic Type R’s mystique. Ever driven one?
Unless you have some influential friends or have been to Japan recently (or both), chances are you haven’t. That makes it impossibly cool, above and beyond whatever good and bad points it may or may not possess. For many, having that red R automatically puts it ahead of the tweaked-Civic pack, no matter what any of us do or say. These folks will undoubtedly lead a life of disappointment as the things are damned hard to come by in this country. The rest of us will build a better R, one that will be legal in this country.
These rides beat the Type R at its own game on paper, starting with a cheap-ass CX model hatch as a starting point, and manages to do it with a sense of factory cool that usually goes out the window when hop-ups get rolling. So much is invested in sheer excess: wheels the size of small, starving African nations with vaguely French names, wings with enough down force to turn tsunamis and tornadoes away, tachometers that block half of the windshield, paint schemes that roughly equate to staring into the sun, in colors and combinations not seen in nature.
JDM (which stands for Japanese Domestic Market) basically means do it like the factory would do it. Show some restraint —more, even, than the factory (and their merry-yellow R) might be inclined to show. Cherry-pick the best factory components and put them in a combination that is your own. Add just enough to differentiate it from lesser models. And make sure that you’re packing the necessary wallop under the hood.
Like takin the best engine from different cars and putting them together to form a new creation. A necessary boot to the head might come in the form of a ’98 1.8L Integra GS-R mill, pumping out slightly more than the U.S. B18CI’s 170hp rating. Some Type-R internals, better breathing, more fuel, and before you know it you’ve got as much at the front wheels as a Type R has at the flywheel and you’ve got an extra 30-plus foot-pounds of torque to boot.
This is never, ever, a bad thing. No turbos, no nitrous, no bolt-on gallimaufry, for the most part, just solid factory-style performance. The way the factory oughta be doing it in the first place. A little ECU reprogramming here, a little head porting there, some Type R internals, and a couple of other things invisible to prying eyes, even when the hood is raised, and you’re well within the parameters of JDM style.
About the only thing missing from a full JDM conversion is the steering wheel on the wrong side of the car. Unless you find a Japan-spec shell somewhere and start popping all of your own components onto it, that just ain’t gonna happen. Even if you did find one, we doubt that the DMV would look kindly upon you cruising around while sitting on the wrong side of the car. Explain that one to the cops next time you’re pulled over because The Man doesn’t like punk kids driving anything other than Chevelles. Might be cheaper and easier to hold these pictures up to a mirror if you need to carry the illusion further. Go ahead. We’ll wait.
So which scenario is less painful: wanting something you can’t have, or having something that may quite possibly be better than that other thing you can’t have? The legend of R will remain untarnished, but JDM-style conversions offer a chance at legend-like performance and style that you may not otherwise be able to approach. Read about what you (probably) can’t have and decide for yourself.
Who Needs A Legend When You Can Build Better For Less?
Everyone wants what they cannot have. Boys want ridiculous cars, like Lamborghinis and Vipers and such. Slightly older boys want what they see in the pages of an entirely different type of glossy magazine. Tons of folks living in Japan want Chevy Astro vans. (Go figure.) It is this innate desire for what we cannot have that drives the human psyche in general, and specifically, a Honda performance market gone mad for R.
No American Civic could possibly approach the sheer factory chic that the Cult of R has built up around Honda’s subtly, if completely, re-engineered overseas-only boy-racer. It is equal parts horsepower and myth that fuel the Civic Type R’s mystique. Ever driven one?
Unless you have some influential friends or have been to Japan recently (or both), chances are you haven’t. That makes it impossibly cool, above and beyond whatever good and bad points it may or may not possess. For many, having that red R automatically puts it ahead of the tweaked-Civic pack, no matter what any of us do or say. These folks will undoubtedly lead a life of disappointment as the things are damned hard to come by in this country. The rest of us will build a better R, one that will be legal in this country.
These rides beat the Type R at its own game on paper, starting with a cheap-ass CX model hatch as a starting point, and manages to do it with a sense of factory cool that usually goes out the window when hop-ups get rolling. So much is invested in sheer excess: wheels the size of small, starving African nations with vaguely French names, wings with enough down force to turn tsunamis and tornadoes away, tachometers that block half of the windshield, paint schemes that roughly equate to staring into the sun, in colors and combinations not seen in nature.
JDM (which stands for Japanese Domestic Market) basically means do it like the factory would do it. Show some restraint —more, even, than the factory (and their merry-yellow R) might be inclined to show. Cherry-pick the best factory components and put them in a combination that is your own. Add just enough to differentiate it from lesser models. And make sure that you’re packing the necessary wallop under the hood.
Like takin the best engine from different cars and putting them together to form a new creation. A necessary boot to the head might come in the form of a ’98 1.8L Integra GS-R mill, pumping out slightly more than the U.S. B18CI’s 170hp rating. Some Type-R internals, better breathing, more fuel, and before you know it you’ve got as much at the front wheels as a Type R has at the flywheel and you’ve got an extra 30-plus foot-pounds of torque to boot.
This is never, ever, a bad thing. No turbos, no nitrous, no bolt-on gallimaufry, for the most part, just solid factory-style performance. The way the factory oughta be doing it in the first place. A little ECU reprogramming here, a little head porting there, some Type R internals, and a couple of other things invisible to prying eyes, even when the hood is raised, and you’re well within the parameters of JDM style.
About the only thing missing from a full JDM conversion is the steering wheel on the wrong side of the car. Unless you find a Japan-spec shell somewhere and start popping all of your own components onto it, that just ain’t gonna happen. Even if you did find one, we doubt that the DMV would look kindly upon you cruising around while sitting on the wrong side of the car. Explain that one to the cops next time you’re pulled over because The Man doesn’t like punk kids driving anything other than Chevelles. Might be cheaper and easier to hold these pictures up to a mirror if you need to carry the illusion further. Go ahead. We’ll wait.
So which scenario is less painful: wanting something you can’t have, or having something that may quite possibly be better than that other thing you can’t have? The legend of R will remain untarnished, but JDM-style conversions offer a chance at legend-like performance and style that you may not otherwise be able to approach. Read about what you (probably) can’t have and decide for yourself.
AE86 Levin Coupe x SR20DET x Watanabe R-Type
Bryce
Bryce
funny shit...
basically... who cares? JDM means nothing to me as is... I like the look of a clean car. subtle mods. function over form.
I tend to take several things too far. Like suspension mods. And i the future engine performance... but I never ever talk shit about things like brands. I DO however feel, that most japanese brands make better parts. especially in the fitment area. but then again: skunk2 is a US company making very fine products! I'd take a Skunk IM over some JDM OEM thing any day. Why? because it was meant to be better than stock. It's not JUST a replacement taken from a better stock engine.
but fitment will always be my reason. I had more trouble getting rid of my old tenzo upper strut bar, than with putting on the Spoon.
and I like uniform stuff... Spoon front upper bar, so... Spoon rear upper bar. Cusco front lower tie bar, so... if it exists for the EF body: Cusco rear lower tie bar.
But my wheels are Rota, not genuine Volk. Know why? know I have decent wheels for the DD street driving I use my car for AND I can get me a set of Tein suspension. Why Tein, when I can get other good stuff from european manufacturers? simple once again! I'm a lazy fucker... I want the damned EDFC system!
But you know what? I also had to get me some eye mount rear LCA's... because the Tein set I'm getting doesn't come with forks in the back... So did I get JDM siR or EDM 88 CRX LCA's? nope... I got aluminum function7 pieces. Cost me a whole lot more, but I know I bought some quality parts that'll last me a lifetime. Not some second hand high mileage parts that might have been in severe accidents that I don't know of!
a hell... I'm into the genuine article as much as the next guy. I just don't make a fuss about getting other parts as well. In the end my car is MY car, which I drive, which will almost never see any form of show. so who cares? As long as I can kick some butt on the streets... get some nice kills and have shitloads of fun while doing it... it's all good!
people who are in the JDM thing, the RICE thing, the ANY thing... just to impress others... they never got the idea behind this beeing a HOBBY. you gotta do stuff like this for yourself. And if you stop liking it, GET OUT. always be yourself, do stuff for yourself... others will never understand you, like you or think you are god. Unless they're stupid. do YOU wanna be seen with stupid people? I don't...
basically... who cares? JDM means nothing to me as is... I like the look of a clean car. subtle mods. function over form.
I tend to take several things too far. Like suspension mods. And i the future engine performance... but I never ever talk shit about things like brands. I DO however feel, that most japanese brands make better parts. especially in the fitment area. but then again: skunk2 is a US company making very fine products! I'd take a Skunk IM over some JDM OEM thing any day. Why? because it was meant to be better than stock. It's not JUST a replacement taken from a better stock engine.
but fitment will always be my reason. I had more trouble getting rid of my old tenzo upper strut bar, than with putting on the Spoon.
and I like uniform stuff... Spoon front upper bar, so... Spoon rear upper bar. Cusco front lower tie bar, so... if it exists for the EF body: Cusco rear lower tie bar.
But my wheels are Rota, not genuine Volk. Know why? know I have decent wheels for the DD street driving I use my car for AND I can get me a set of Tein suspension. Why Tein, when I can get other good stuff from european manufacturers? simple once again! I'm a lazy fucker... I want the damned EDFC system!
But you know what? I also had to get me some eye mount rear LCA's... because the Tein set I'm getting doesn't come with forks in the back... So did I get JDM siR or EDM 88 CRX LCA's? nope... I got aluminum function7 pieces. Cost me a whole lot more, but I know I bought some quality parts that'll last me a lifetime. Not some second hand high mileage parts that might have been in severe accidents that I don't know of!
a hell... I'm into the genuine article as much as the next guy. I just don't make a fuss about getting other parts as well. In the end my car is MY car, which I drive, which will almost never see any form of show. so who cares? As long as I can kick some butt on the streets... get some nice kills and have shitloads of fun while doing it... it's all good!
people who are in the JDM thing, the RICE thing, the ANY thing... just to impress others... they never got the idea behind this beeing a HOBBY. you gotta do stuff like this for yourself. And if you stop liking it, GET OUT. always be yourself, do stuff for yourself... others will never understand you, like you or think you are god. Unless they're stupid. do YOU wanna be seen with stupid people? I don't...
'00 EK3 Civic 1.5i LS VTEC-E [d15z6]
'98 DC2 Integra type R [hella fun]
"History is written by the winner."
No where the f**k did I leave my pen?
'98 DC2 Integra type R [hella fun]
"History is written by the winner."
No where the f**k did I leave my pen?
-
Sean @ NDF
- Posts: 13082
- Joined: January 24, 2005
- Location: Narita-Yokohama
- Contact:
The number one thing I'm concerned with is going fast. Thats what I was brought up on, so thats what comes first.
But when it comes to JDM/oem styling for interior and exterior, you can't get much cleaner. Not only does your car have a sort of original, yet stock looking appearance, but you have the peice of mind that its a quaility part and not too many people have it.
I'm very into Japanese culture, and I think the car industry is a big thing, so finding these parts is kinda fun.
But when it comes to JDM/oem styling for interior and exterior, you can't get much cleaner. Not only does your car have a sort of original, yet stock looking appearance, but you have the peice of mind that its a quaility part and not too many people have it.
I'm very into Japanese culture, and I think the car industry is a big thing, so finding these parts is kinda fun.