Used Jdm Motors

[3S-GTE pRIZM]

Does anyone know of any good websites that sell jdm motors...im lookin for the japanese 4age silvertop( it has to be japanese) or a 4agze... thankz in advance

[Criard]

ebaymotors? what's different about the japanese version?

[Criard]

that sponsor/ad th show on the main screen of the corolla forum www.tigerjapanese.com had some

[3S-GTE pRIZM]

the jdm model i believe came with a lil more horsepwer...plus im goin to be running race fuel in it and since american race fuel is japanese street fuel i wont have to worry about anything(just in case)

[Bitter]

Originally Posted by 3S-GTE pRIZM

the jdm model i believe came with a lil more horsepwer...plus im goin to be running race fuel in it and since american race fuel is japanese street fuel i wont have to worry about anything(just in case)

its like its straight from vin deisels mouth, and totally false. the japanese do not drive around on 110 octane fuel all day. what it is, their gas is more highly refined and much lower in impurities, especially sulphur. this lets them do cool things like gasoline direct injection, run more agressive timing, etc.

[micro214_kp61]

3S-GTE pRIZM... i'd seriously consider doing heavy research coz most of the stuff you posts here are FALSE. i don't know where your getting your facts but google has a lot of cool links that have reliable infos.

the "silvertop" 4A-GE was ONLY available in Japan. so any 20V 4A-GE silvertop you'll see in the US "ARE" JDM. Asian market has higher octane ratings than North American market but the 94 octane here is basically the same as 100 octane in Asia.

[REN69]

There's MON and RON octane ratings.. I believe Japan is MON and North America is RON (or viceversa ) Either way, a rating of 110 in Japan would equal our rating of 94.

The Silvertop and Blacktops were only available in Japan.. they're all the same whether you buy it from a JDM shop or a motor shop down the street in your area.

[dLo914]

http://www.enginelandusa.com/index.htmlpicked up my JDM, Big Port, Red Top, 4age there for $395 out the door. While i was there they also had a silvertop lying around.

[Flashmn]

Pretty much goes like this:
Quoted from a honda site:

In Europe 98-octane gasoline is common and in Japan even 100-octane is readily available at the pumps, but this octane nomenclature is misleading to Americans as foreign octane ratings are derived entirely differently from our own... So, like every other measurement system it seems that everyone else uses a different scale than we do, but unlike most other instances where we have had the good sense to create different units of measure in this case we all use the same name...
Japan and Europe use a system called RON or Research Octane Number to determine the octane rating of their gasoline, while stateside we use a system called AKI or Anti-Knock Index to determine gasoline's octane rating... Interestingly, to further complicate things it would seem that our own AKI system is actually derived from the average of the RON system and another more complicated system referred to as MON or Motor Octane Number... So, to recap our methodologies for measuring gasoline's octane rating are different, but share some common elements...
So, with the commonality of RON in mind a good rule of thumb is as follows, multiply the foreign RON Octane rating by 0.95 and you will have the US AKI equivalent.

( RON Octane Rating x 0.95 = AKI Octane Rating )
98 RON Octane x 0.95 = 93.1 AKI Octane (US measure)
100 RON Octane x 0.95 = 95 AKI Octane (US measure)

So, as you can see the 93 or 94 octane fuel we are all paying an arm and a leg for is actually quite comparable to the higher octane fuels found in Europe and Japan. The people whom have to worry about low octane rating are our friends out west in places like California that are subjected to substandard 91 octane.
91 AKI Octane (US measure) = 95.5 RON Octane

i'd seriously consider doing heavy research coz most of the stuff you posts here are FALSE

I second this