Quote Originally Posted by 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
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."

Quote Originally Posted by DJ XtRaK
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.