JDM Cars - A Complete Beginner's Guide

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Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
1:03 - Cars
4:39 - Important Figures
5:54 - Fictional Influences
6:37 - Youtubers and Games
8:31 - Additional notes
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my favourite jdm for beginners video assetto corsa jdm games need for speed ae86 initial d jdm culture
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Songs/Videos used in the video:
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Best MOTORing official
JDM Masters
steven chow
noriyaro
Vegetable Studio
Koma
Ryan Ng
Eat Sleep Shift
Team Lowe
MrRacingChannel
DRIVETRIBE
Harnett Media
Initial D
Trash Taste
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mitsu - sarang (misoo74 skoolio)
victxrw - healing process (kimzhel)City Lover City Rider By Matt Land

DDD Initial D By Mega NRG

Naoya Sakamata Meaning Of Lifespan - Emotional Piano Eurobeat

ピアノソロ八重桜オリジナル曲 - かしわ丸餅
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[PlooshYT]

I feel like this video coulda been named “a guide to cars that should be worth $10, 000 but sell for $150, 000”

[assassinwolf]

Been trying to get into JDM for quite some time and this video helped me get some of the basics down! Great content! ( Instant like as soon as I heard Kira's theme lol )

[Nighthawk_r]

My dream car is the R33 Skyline. Owned mine for just over a year and since I learned quite a bit about it I will say it's a joy to drive and it does get it's fair share of attention. However the unfortunate reality is owning these cars are not all sunshine and rainbows and the reason is because it's going to take time and money to make it more reliable. If you ever buy a JDM with any RB engine you better keep an eye on your timing belt as these are interference type engines. And please for the love of God don't buy one unless you have the funds and time to put into it. Last thing you want is a car just sitting around and doing nothing to it. It's frustrating but chances are you may need to replace the timing kit including water pump, oiling system and adding a head drain adapter with a return line and recommend running it down to the pan or the sump, head restrictors to limit the flow of oil getting sucked up into the head (common issue with RBs), crank and cam seals, extended crank collar, and upgrade to a better oil pump like the N1. In order to do all of this you will need to pull out your whole engine which is exactly what I am going to do next year. A diy will take about 4 months and better to do it yourself than spend $1, 000s of dollars on professionals to do it as long as you have a friend or know someone who knows exactly what they are doing. This kind of build is for bone stock reliability and it's highly recommended to do that first before upgrading the engine with aftermarket modifications for more power.

[kinori]

Such a great video!
For those who are new to the culture, please make sure to appreciate the inner part of jdms rather than the popular ones.
Should do a part 2 for sub communities within the cultures

[STAR-wqkn]

me: downloads a drift game

also me: has a intense addiction to jdm cars

[GarageGotland]

And remember guys not every Japanese car is Jdm = Jdm is when the car is right hand drive and has the Japanese specs/is literally from Japan/import. If it’s left hand drive from factory 🏭 and has your country specs and not Japans specs it’s not Jdm, it’s just a Japanese car👍✨

[OBEYBLUE]

Forgot to mention Mid Night car club. Also rx7 was a little higher than mid tier, so little sold in US bc of price, roughly around same price as a Porsche, and after having both a porsche and both a rx7 i can say they are both worth every penny. Pretty good video, love how you get a little bit of everything.

[iambryan]

This video does indeed miss out a lot of details.

JDM as we know it really traces its roots back to late 1960s to early 1970s with cars like the Honda S500, Toyota 2000GT and Crown, Nissan Skyline GTR KPGC10 and Fairlady Z, Datsun Bluebird and Mazda RX-3. There are arguably more important figures in the JDM scene but except for the 1990s tuner houses a lot of their identities are so obscure and not much information on them can be found in English language.

The PS1 and PS2 era saw a slew of games focused on actual Japanese Street Racing, namely Shutokou Battle (Later imported to Western markets as Tokyo Xtreme Racer), Kaidou Battle (Known as TXR Drift in Western markets), Touge series, Battle Gear (Formerly Side By Side), Option Tuning Car Battle, Racing Lagoon, Wangan Midnight R(Pre-MaxiTune game based on Shutokou Battle). All of these are arguably more realistic than any Need For Speed game has ever come to JDM culture since Need For Speed is literally just based on glorified Hollywood movies. Initial D Arcade Stage and Wangan MaxiTune series are well known enough, I suppose.

A side note, eurobeat was considered mainstream EDM in late 1990s, Wikipedia has a pretty accurate summary of it's influences and how it became popular so I will leave it at that. It was not generally associated with racing prior to Initial D's first release and in fact, the go to car music genre back then was rock and roll which is why you will find a lot of rock music in Japanese street racing movies from 1980s and 1990s.

[Slayiden]

hell yeah, ALBO is such a great creator, been watching him for a min, also honorable mention of midnight club wouldve been a good addition, they were a huge influence in terms of modifying your car to be the fastest there is.

[datkindoftone]

Ngl, I've never been into cars up until asserto corsa is on sale, and I started to watch initial d. This video helps me to get into the culture of JDM and cars in general. Great content :D

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i love this video.
it's so easy to understand, especially for beginners.

[CastaneaMa]

Such production quality, really liked the sponsor break!

[melaninfuture]

I was into JDM cars in the mid to late 90s as a teen going into my early 20s. You know how it goes. Life takes its turns, things change, blah blah blah. But in some way, I found my way back and I’m enjoying every minute of it.

[ledom]

I love JDM culture and I'm glad you make a video for newbies xD

[NightWVL]

Cool video! JDM is such a cool subculture of car culture and I’d say it’s my favorite one!

[JustRitschie]

For me the GR86 and the Subaru BRZ are the new kind of JDM cars with the energy of the old JDM cars. Engine has enough power, but not to much, rear wheel drive and much more.
im happy Subaru/Toyota brought us such nice cars

[Lp-jejv]

This helped cause I do really want to learn about jdm and this literally opened new doors so 🤝

[raphaelvildren]

Even though there are some mistakes, as a car fan I'm sure car enthusiasts will appreciate the spirit and enthusiasm put in this video. Plus, you did a good job summarising and spreading the culture.


(though im sure some people will get mad at you for putting the supra as a mid tier 90's JDM car)

[Hunikengt]

Hey nice video, just to point out, Mitsubishi in the 90s had Evos and in top category it got the 3000GT VR-4 as well standing next to the Supra and NSX.

[RaijinFK]

I can see why this is for beginners, it's simple but leaves info to be discovered for later