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[quote=Aussie Mike;745033]If you are working in the US then you have another option: Personal import. If you reside overseas and own a car over there providing you have owned it for 12 months over there you can bring the car in to the country and not pay duty. There may also be some loop holes for rego with an older motor if it has already been registered in tha other country.

I did it years ago with a Motorcycle I owned in NZ. It was a Honda NSR250, a model that wasn't sold in Australia. I had the bike for sale over there but wasn't having much luck selling it so I decided to ship it across. I rode it over here for a while and then sold it. Because it was a rare bike at the time when I sold it I pretty much got back what I paid for it and the cost of importing it.



I owned a dealer delivered NSR250R (MC-18-II) in my early 20's. It was a rare bike but was certainly dealer delivered at some stage!!! Now this was near 20 years ago now but it was one of the very few road registrable 2 strokes on the market. and certainly the rules have changed much since then.
I had it tuned by a reputable race team and the difference was shocking!!!
Bloody fast bike!! Scary fast.




I don't know the ins and outs of how to get a 427 ADR legal but I know what it takes to make them meet emission limits and that takes a pretty fancy exhaust job (to say the least) with up to 4 catalytic converters being used in some applications (certainly most big cube modern cars run at least 4) and exhaust gas oxygen sensors pre cat and after cat being required to meet euro 4 requirement for catalyst efficiency monitoring. Any high end aftermarket ECU is more than capable of meeting and exceeding emission requirements providing a suitable exhaust is fitted.