Niigata / Maze Circuit

[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

[DaiOni]

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]

yeah i've dug up the later one and contacted the circuit and sent photos of the car and sticker. just hope they can understand how english is ment to be written

[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..

[akeenan]

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

Edited June 12, 2006 by akeenan

[Guest Mashrock]

i'll get you a photo of the two kanji i have on the sticker

[Guest Mashrock]

and there it is

[akeenan]

yeah just says nihonkai

but in very nice script

Edited June 12, 2006 by akeenan

[Morgs]

Have you put it on a dyno yet

[Guest Mashrock]

yeah just says nihonkai

but in very nice script

this is what i thought

i will await my email back from some japanese person.

and might try search more for this nihonkai club.

Have you put it on a dyno yet

and no

waiting on some tyres/wheels that are held up

[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 June 12, 2006 by Mashrock

[Beer Baron]

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?

[Guest Mashrock]

yeah i lost all hope after a honky rocked up with the sticked

tho shit when i first got the car there was a track day ticket. i wish i had of held onto that. would have given me some idea about it.

i can ask kris for de rego perhaps.

[andylaurel]

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

[akeenan]

but the kanji is different

[Guest Mashrock]

no de rego papers

[DaiOni]

It means 'japan sea'

the circuit, and probably the car (and almost certainly the team) are from niigata - and niigata's waters are the japan sea. It would make sense that they would use that as an identifying tag.

[Beer Baron]

no de rego papers

bummer some cars are registered in japan as modified and it lists some (or all) mods on the rego/de-rego papers. that would have helped for sure.

[Guest Mashrock]

will have to take sump off i'd think now.

would like to check that there is some sort of baffle in place. before he gets thrashed around the track.

hopefully heading out in august to eastern creek to race my mates sprinter.