Im planning to move to the USA (Los Angeles, California), and there is one item that I cannot take away. Its my Evo. Its a Rally Red Evo 6 TME that I bought here and I wanna bring it there. U know any company that fixed the papers and stuff for the car to legalize it? I heard the only street legal Evo there is the Evo 8. Sorry but I just cannot let go of my baby.

-Dondon

 

wow....if you were on the east coast i'd like a ride...

 

Benta mo sa akin if things dont go your way.

 

hidni ako. si dondon medija. kaibigan ko yan. i just wrote it down for hom kasi nagtatanong siya. magnurnurse siya, eh ayaw niya bitawan ang TME niya para sikat daw siya diyan. tama nga naman

 

haha.. k

 

I think you can talk to someone at RB Motoring in City of Industry in California. They have an website. Someone there is really knowledgeable with certifications.

I think his name is Sean.

www.rbmotoring.com

Hope this helps

 

ill go check it. any ideas of the stuff they do to legalize the car? the car presently feeds on 98 octane here in the Philippines. What are the octane levels of the gas there?

 

another alternative to rbmotoring is motorex

 

let us know how everything goes. If you actually bring your evo here and legalize it, i'll tell my cousins to bring me an evo V over here. Good luck

 

In Cali I believe its 91 octane

 

Most gas stations here have 87, 89, and 93. California specifically doesn't have 93 though - they have 91.

Keep in mind, there are two measures of octane. RON and MON. If you're using 98, I'm betting it's 98 RON. The US measure of octance is (RON+MON)/2. Typically, 98 RON is also 88 MON. So 93 octane in the US is most similar to what you're using. In California, you'll have to settle for 91 and hopefully you haven't modified too much to really push your limits regarding octane.
-N

 

The headaches you might get from trying to make that car legal over here is going to be enormous that you might as well leave it over there and just buy a USDM Evo 8 MR and enjoy it. I had an ex-GF who had a EDM WRX (before the wrx even came here to the US) and before we broke it off, GeneralMotors(who she worked for) told her that the car had to be destroyed. It was brought over using GM's "manufacturer's title". The car was stock with nothing taken off for the EPA. She owned the car, but she had to have a special license/title for it to be kept in the US. I guess GM allowed her to keep it for just 3 years, under the special license. But they finally decided not to renew it after it was done.

I assume manufacturers are allowed only a certain amount of R&D vehicles to be imported to the US. Detroit seems to be a hotbed...I've seen Renault RS's, an Evo7, Lotus Elises, etc. Rode in a RHD twin-turbo Mitsu Legnum VR4(first date..hehe) and even got to drive a Mercedes A-class with the sequential trans (no clutch, stick shift). Now from what she told me, these cars are to be destroyed once the engineers have their way with it. The A-class was barely in good condition when I drove it, and the Legnum was destroyed after 3 months.

Now that's one way you can keep the car, stock, here. If your company can "vouch" for it to be used in testing purposes, then the TME is set...but you might have to destroy it, if they decide not to pay the cost of keeping it here anymore.

Now, if you wanna go through the Motorex or RB Motoring route... just think that you most likely will have to pay at the least, $30K just for the conversion. Of course, this is info I got from reading various car forums...so don't quote me on it. But for sure, by the time they are done with the conversion, you will have an underpowered car, that would probably cost as much as an STi and an Evo combined and you have to drive with bad gas. Here in Michigan we have 94 octane with some places actually selling 100 octane gas at the pump. And with all the stricter emission laws in Cali...

I'm just giving a opinion here and I'm sure others can give you better and even acurate info. So definitely ask Motorex and RB Motoring for the specifics. But I think you should just leave the TME in the islands and buy an Evo over here and hook the beaytch up. Save money and have less headaches. Besides, I will be visiting over there next year and I want a ride!!! And also... if I owned that car... NO ONE will ever touch it!!!

 

Thanks for the tips! Well the car is actually LHD. When the car was bought, it was already LHD. So nomore problems with the conversion. Mitsubishi released limited models of the TME that are LHD and we are a country lucky enough to have been supplied a sufficient number of these models.





Nah I cant let go of this baby. Shes too beautiful to let go of. Im willing to bite the bullet and pay for the legalization rather than sell her back home or leave her back in my garage. Besides, im quite sure ill be one of those few people driving around the streets of California in a TME Evo 6. Pinoy pride!

 

Why not? Visit http://www.autolink.ph/stocks/view.asp?ID=10150 I remember them selling a white Evo 5 RS. Dont worry about the conversion. Our Evo 5s here are LHD so no problem with that. Just drop them an email to inquire about the Evo 5. It says there Evo VIII and its being sold for Php2.4m. I think they made an error there, so ur better off dropping an email inquiring about the Evo.

Some pics:

 

very nice car I hope you can get it here good luck to you with that