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Guest Mashrock

i found a sticker the other day in my car. it was under my rollcage padding

i have had the car for over a year now. haha

it reads

Sunday racing cauce

Maze circuit

team nihonkai

there is a photo of it. but its a bit hard to get a photo of..

wonder if i can track down the owner. wouldnt mind some info on the car. or the engine and what they have done to it as there is lots of aftermarket shit and non standrad internals

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a quick google search brought up the following:

this is from nagaoka (2nd biggest city in niigata) - orange FD is a nihonkai car

http://nagaoka.rgr.jp/ibent/dynamaite/index.html

http://www.medianetjapan.com/2/20/sport/ka...gotoibento.html

here's a site for the circuit:

http://members.aol.com/Mazecircuit/index.html

that might be a good starting point for investigation.

Guest Mashrock

so nihonkai mean what exactly?

my mate has done japanese for a bit but said it has many meanings.

i know nihon is japan. then i asked my friend and kai can mean shellfish. can mean levels in a building, and a gathering/party..

but once googled on that orange fd it came up team sea of japan..

the textbook japanese translation of nihonkai is the sea of japan. However the stickers meaning could mean anything

Although judging by the kanji the left 2 have no idea because of the photos angle the far right one appears as though it could be 海 beach, sea, ocean.

Also looking at one of Daioni`s links the orange FD with `Team 日本海` basically shows that theres some kind of race team called nihonkai

anyways :dry:

Edited by akeenan
Guest Mashrock

Certificate of originality on my rear window.

Peep the OG decal (anodized red/silver) that I got from the manager of the Nihonkai Maze Circuit in Japan. I saved it from our Tokyo Auto Salon excursion in January 1999. The most popular things to race at the Maze are motorcycles and hachirokus!!!

http://members.tripod.com/~teamcipher/doriftoREDae86.htm

from some honky website.. uhoh!

p.s. the photo didnt work but its at the bottom of link

Edited by Mashrock

yeah i'd say the previous owner probably bought the sticker at TAS or a shop to put on his cage cause he thought it looked cool, or maybe he had been to maze circuit? i would say there would be many of those stickers on peoples cars.

just get someone to have a look at your turbos and whip off your sump and that should give you some idea about what is on the car. or do you have the japanese registration (or de-registration) or auction sheet?

kai also means modified

so it could translate

Japan Modified

implying Japan Modified Car Club etc

and i don't know if you knew or not, but Maze would not be pronounced in the way we would say maze (not a puzzling series of turns designed to get you lost)

rather it would be pronounced MA - ZE

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