What makes something JDM?

[B16a2 Civic]

i hate when people refer to their cars as the japs do
i gotta EG this, EK that, Kouki this...blaah you have a honda hatchback CX, DX and a nissan n240x

[tony]

i hate when people refer to their cars as the japs do
i gotta EG this, EK that, Kouki this...blaah you have a honda hatchback CX, DX and a nissan n240x

I agree, I badged my G35 as a Skyline 350GT just to be different but still refer to it as an Infiniti G35, I'd feel like an ass calling it a skyline.

[B16a2 Civic]

I agree, I badged my G35 as a Skyline 350GT just to be different but still refer to it as an Infiniti G35, I'd feel like an ass calling it a skyline.

well you can technically call your car a skyline cause the g35 was considered the US Skyline, either way that shit is hott!!

and TSI...i do lie, ricers just lie about their ride and boost it to be somethin they are not...you havent doen that....now that guy Coblier guy was a ricer

[speedminded]

Simplicity, function, & clean w/ clean lines & good taste (if you like the "conservative" clean line look that is)...doesn't necessarily mean all j-spec (for you nissan peoples) or JDM parts. It's pretty much a look that won't ever get old...it may be a stock looking AE86 or a Honda with little or no body changes, suspension work, "race" style wheels...etc. Normally using quality parts that have a function and more attention to speed and handling than looks. See http://www.jtuned.com for examples.

The more extreme you go on a car the more "trendy" it is...like the monstorous body kits through the late 90's and the years there after, differant color window tint, fiberglass dashes, and molded & shaved everything, headlight conversion, etc...hell look at 1/2 the cars at NOPI, show cars have hardly changed in the last 5-8 years and it gets old, same heavy ass fiberglass bodykits, 500lbs. of stereo equipment, cotton stuffed up in the wheel wells, etc....i respect the time spent on something, especially if someone did it themself but it seems to get old. Even if "JDM" style cars all look the same, same stuff, same mods, etc...it may be boring to some but a nice clean car doesn't seem to get old to alot of us...

Kinda off topic but we joke about our kitchen or shop not being JDM when it's all disorganized (is that even a word?) who knows, anyways....my roommates and i are competing for the most JDM bedroom...lol, doesn't necessarily mean bamboo floors and soji screens with a zen garden...but clean conservative with a slight asian influence (which just means less is better). Take a majority of Ikea's setups...so simple yet so hot. Just my

[DJ XtRaK©]

Simplicity, function, & clean w/ clean lines & good taste (if you like the "conservative" clean line look that is)...doesn't necessarily mean all j-spec (for you nissan peoples) or JDM parts. It's pretty much a look that won't ever get old...it may be a stock looking AE86 or a Honda with little or no body changes, suspension work, "race" style wheels...etc. Normally using quality parts that have a function and more attention to speed and handling than looks. See http://www.jtuned.com for examples.

The more extreme you go on a car the more "trendy" it is...like the monstorous body kits through the late 90's and the years there after, differant color window tint, fiberglass dashes, and molded & shaved everything, headlight conversion, etc...hell look at 1/2 the cars at NOPI, show cars have hardly changed in the last 5-8 years and it gets old, same heavy ass fiberglass bodykits, 500lbs. of stereo equipment, cotton stuffed up in the wheel wells, etc....i respect the time spent on something, especially if someone did it themself but it seems to get old. Even if "JDM" style cars all look the same, same stuff, same mods, etc...it may be boring to some but a nice clean car doesn't seem to get old to alot of us...

Kinda off topic but we joke about our kitchen or shop not being JDM when it's all disorganized (is that even a word?) who knows, anyways....my roommates and i are competing for the most JDM bedroom...lol, doesn't necessarily mean bamboo floors and soji screens with a zen garden...but clean conservative with a slight asian influence (which just means less is better). Take a majority of Ikea's setups...so simple yet so hot. Just my

too much to read, shorten that shit bitch

[speedminded]

too much to read, shorten that shit bitch

lol, Less is better. Simple, functional, & clean, period.

[DrivenMind]

i hate when people refer to their cars as the japs do
i gotta EG this, EK that, Kouki this...blaah you have a honda hatchback CX, DX and a nissan n240x

People usually only resort to calling a car by a chassis code when there's an enormous number of variants of the car wearing the same name, like the Civic hatchback line up over the past like what 20 years? EF, EG, EK, EP, it's just easier to designate the car by it's chasis code so it eliminates to guess work in what generation of the car is when someone says;

guy 1: "I've got a Civic..."
guy 2: "Oh ya? what kind?"
guy 1: "Si"
guy 2: "Coupe or hatch?"
guy 1: "hatch..."
guy 2: "that's cool, what year?"
guy 1: " '03 "

It's easier just to say "I've got an EP."

too much to read, shorten that shit bitch

Basically it's a well, kept almost stock looking appearance usually sporting some parts from the cars Japanese counterpart. The "JDM" look is focused on achieving a simple and clean look without anything too flashy. (IMO)

True "JDM" parts are parts that we're originally on the market in Japan and somehow found their way over to the states.

Jun is a Japan only part manufacturer, but they have importers here. I have a Jun flywheel, but it's not a "JDM" Jun flywheel (not as if there's any difference) because it was never sold on the market in Japan

I just bought a JDM Toyota Final Gear kit which is JDM purely because it was sold in Japan and was pulled of an AE86 in Japan and sent to me.

Flat black paint has nothing to do with JDM. We originally painted my friends Integra flat black after seeing the Skunk2 RSX "Project Delta", I thought it'd be cool to paint the Integra the same color. A few months later SCC painted their Project Silvia spray paint black and later did the same to an STi. I think it's dumb, and would rather paint my car semi flat, but I have no money to paint my car, so it stays the way it came. Ugly.

[B16a2 Civic]

People usually only resort to calling a car by a chassis code when there's an enormous number of variants of the car wearing the same name, like the Civic hatchback line up over the past like what 20 years? EF, EG, EK, EP, it's just easier to designate the car by it's chasis code so it eliminates to guess work in what generation of the car is when someone says;

guy 1: "I've got a Civic..."
guy 2: "Oh ya? what kind?"
guy 1: "Si"
guy 2: "Coupe or hatch?"
guy 1: "hatch..."
guy 2: "that's cool, what year?"
guy 1: " '03 "

It's easier just to say "I've got an EP."


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ok, now is this tha point of view that your talkin to someone online, over the phoen or what...im sure if their in person, they get the idea....now, again lets take into example that persons knows nothin about cars so thats why they ask, you tell em you got an EP...you just started a whole new wave of questions.

[CRVTech]

guy 1: "I've got a Civic..."
guy 2: "Oh ya? what kind?"
guy 1: "Si"
guy 2: "Coupe or hatch?"
guy 1: "hatch..."
guy 2: "that's cool, what year?"
guy 1: " '03 "

It's easier just to say "I've got an EP."

Guy 1: "I've got an EP."
Guy 2: "Cool, what year?"
Guy 1: "'03..."
Guy 2: "Yeah, I've got a '03 civic si hatch."

Exactly how 95% of those conversations happen around here.

[speedminded]

i hate when people refer to their cars as the japs do
i gotta EG this, EK that, Kouki this...blaah you have a honda hatchback CX, DX and a nissan n240x

what's wrong with referring your car with it's chassis code? Look at the VIN number on most of those cars...you'll see those magic letters in there.

You tell someone you have a hatchback, then automatically what is their next question..."really, what year?" It's just a real simple way to say exactly what you have. And come on, it's gotta be a turn on when a girl refers to her car with the body/chassis code right?!

[B16a2 Civic]

what's wrong with referring your car with it's chassis code? Look at the VIN number on most of those cars...you'll see those magic letters in there.

You tell someone you have a hatchback, then automatically what is their next question..."really, what year?" It's just a real simple way to say exactly what you have. And come on, it's gotta be a turn on when a girl refers to her car with the body/chassis code right?!

actually no, i call my car a civic si, not ebpd or whatever other people, its just an example of people tryn amake their car seem more exotic then it iz

[speedminded]

actually no, i call my car a civic si, not ebpd or whatever other people, its just an example of people tryn amake their car seem more exotic then it iz

CIVIC SI, ok...so is the fucking ugly ass hatch with the misplaced shifter, '91 civic hatch si, '92-'95 body civic hatch si, or the regular Si civic with the b16a2? (yeah I know, hence your name on here) It's not making anything look or sound better, it's just a way to reference your car.

[B16a2 Civic]

CIVIC SI, ok...so is the fucking ugly ass hatch with the misplaced shifter, '92-'95 body civic hatch si, or the regular Si civic with the b16a2? (yeah I know, hence your name on here) It's not making anything look or sound better, it's just a way to reference your car.

well, it doesnt matter to me what they think the car may be....they can come see it, hence i use the name i bough tit under...Civic Si....
im not sayin nothin is wrong with callin your car a EK, EG, or DC, that shit is just annoying and over used.