New to Japan

[Yokosilver]

Hello everyone. I recently moved to Japan and bought a 1998 B4 RSK. I love the car except the fact that I am 6'1" the steering wheel is a little tricky to get around when getting into the car. I don't know if much has been done as far as aftermarket goes, but I would like to at least do some cosmetic modifications. I don't want to spend much money on performance upgrades because I don't know if I will be keeping this car when I leave the country.

It's a silver sedan. Anyone have and suggestions for what I should do? I will post pics of the car this weekend afetr I clean it up.

[httrdd]

Welcome!

[MarkSubi]

Welcome man! hope you like your stay here and in Japan, I know I'd love to be over there. :smt006

[Yokosilver]

httrdd, thank you.

MarkSubi, thank you. I am very excited about my stay here in Japan.

[Yokosilver]

Also, I checked the forums but only found dead links. Does anyone know where I can find a JDM service manual? I am new to Subarus so I don't know too much about their set up.

[Airgne]

welcome. doco?

[Yokosilver]

Sorry, AU. Honestly, took me a minute to get what you meant. I live in Ikego, so putting Yokosuka might have been a little misleading.

I am going to go take some pictures and post them up today. My mood thread will be very slow at best, but I will try to keep up to date stuff on here.

[Yamazaki]

Also, I checked the forums but only found dead links. Does anyone know where I can find a JDM service manual? I am new to Subarus so I don't know too much about their set up.
I'm not being sarcastic when I say this but, you're there in Japan. You can get them all over the place. Try a dealer or Yahoo! auctions.

[Yokosilver]

Haha, no sarcasm taken. The only ones I have found here are in Japanese. Maybe I am asking for too much, but what are the possibilities of finding one in English?

[Airgne]

hope you like japan. im stationed out of yokosuka as well. rarely on yoko base, but if you see a black looking nissan with black rims thats me. oh yeah and the car is loud and hard to miss.

[hansvonaxion]

Haha, no sarcasm taken. The only ones I have found here are in Japanese. Maybe I am asking for too much, but what are the possibilities of finding one in English?
Depending on what you want it for, best bet is to get one for an EU model, you won't find an English one in Japan for a JDM car.

[Yokosilver]

hope you like japan. im stationed out of yokosuka as well. rarely on yoko base, but if you see a black looking nissan with black rims thats me. oh yeah and the car is loud and hard to miss.

So far I am loving it. I am still really bad at reading kanji, but I can recognize some of them. I saw that Yokosuka was your location. I live in Ikego, and it is still a little weird to me that it takes nearly 30 minutes to drive 6 miles.


Depending on what you want it for, best bet is to get one for an EU model, you won't find an English one in Japan for a JDM car.

Thanks for the tip. I am mostly looking for basic maintenance and dis-assembly diagrams. I saw a thread on how to pull the tweeter housing on the door off which I want to do since the tweeters aren't making any noise. I have found most of what I have been looking for on the forums, but I would like one for personal reference when I am looking through the car, too.

[Yamazaki]

Thanks for the tip. I am mostly looking for basic maintenance and dis-assembly diagrams. I saw a thread on how to pull the tweeter housing on the door off which I want to do since the tweeters aren't making any noise. I have found most of what I have been looking for on the forums, but I would like one for personal reference when I am looking through the car, too.
In that case, there's an Australian one floating around somewhere (it has both RHD and LHD in it). That should work for your purposes.

[Airgne]

hope you like japan. im stationed out of yokosuka as well. rarely on yoko base, but if you see a black looking nissan with black rims thats me. oh yeah and the car is loud and hard to miss.

So far I am loving it. I am still really bad at reading kanji, but I can recognize some of them. I saw that Yokosuka was your location. I live in Ikego, and it is still a little weird to me that it takes nearly 30 minutes to drive 6 miles.

you will get use to it. i know how you feel.

[Yokosilver]

In that case, there's an Australian one floating around somewhere (it has both RHD and LHD in it). That should work for your purposes.

Awesome. Thank you.

[Cervantes]

Welcome. I'm down in Okinawa, but lived in mainland Japan for a while. I loved it up there!