HellaSexyS13

So the exhaust on my S13 has no branding on it, just the JASMA (japan auto sport muffler assoc.) badge on it w/ the 051 manufacturer number. This number correlates to Etching K S Inc.

I cannot find any info about this company, only thing i was able to find was from what other people have said on other forums. They said it was a race division of HKS.

Cannot find any company history by googling or anything. Does anyone here know about this company? when it existed? was it in fact HKS?

thanks

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JM216S14

Looks like its a HKS maybe that was the name way back or something?

HellaSexyS13

yea thats all i was able to find out as well, maybe its a super cool super JDM old school HKS exhaust then haha

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XMcEvilson

Etching: the act or process of making designs or pictures on a metal plate

I would guess that's just referring to where the badge thing was made.

HellaSexyS13

nah Etching K S Inc. is the company that made the exhaust

heres the list of JASMA codes for each company. mine was 051

Akiyure Inc. 047
Apekusera Inc. 048
Iida Inc. 130
Ikeda industry 003
A tea sea international Japan Inc. 074
Etching k s Inc. 051
Ebansupuranningu asuretsuku division 129
M-TEC Inc. 002
Otoekuze Inc. 120
Automatic backs seven Inc. 097
Ovuareshingupurodakutsu Inc. 124
Katsu Inc. 088
Car land 119
Kind technostructure Inc. 115
Kakimotoreshingu Inc. 017
Garcon division 114
Can tile office 113
5ZIGEN international Inc. 005
Sun automobile industry Inc. 076
Gee earl Inc. 012
Jieiruto Inc. 013
Gee piece Potts Inc. 125
Jiyaosu Inc. 067
Starting line Inc. 069
Spoon Inc. 044
Possession the Suruga Seiki Inc. 106
Zero sports Inc. 100
Tanabe Inc. 026
Taniguchi Inc. 035
Takeoff Inc. 004
Top line Inc. 110
Trust Inc. 006
Knight sport Inc. 019
Huaburesu Inc. 111
Fujita engineering Inc. 061
Rattan šâ engineering and research industry Inc. (Fujitsubo Giken Co. Ltd.) 001
Free way Inc. 123
Buritsutsu Inc. 021
Hoshinoinparu Inc. 037
HONDA twin cam Inc. 011
Mainzuueibu Inc. 038
Makishimuwakusu Inc. 045
Pine Shaw Inc. 008
Meiwa Inc. 041
Yajima industry Inc. 091
Yamato Inc. 122
Lucky automatic Inc. 126
Love lark Inc. 083

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Matej

Etching K S Inc. is HKS. That is just their Jasma registration trademark or whatever. It is a silly phonetic play on their name.


Etching-K-S Inc.

Etch-Inc-K-S.

Ech-K-S Inc.

H-K-S Inc.

HKS!


Maybe Jasma required them to have more than three letters or something.

ZenkiKid

Hasegawa + Kitagawa + Sigma Automotive = HKS

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HellaSexyS13

Thanks guys! any idea why it wouldnt have an actual HKS badge on it though?

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STEEZxIT

i'm pretty sure etching k s is a phonetic name used for engrish translation of HKS. (though the need to translate an acronym in characters already understood in english is somewhat dubious.) maybe the reason your exhaust says "etching k s" is that it was probably marked for distribution to an english speaking market and they felt the description was necessary.

like essu essu earl for ssr. take a look at crooober, you'll see what i'm talking about. (roman characters) romaji japanese contains a lot of interesting surrogate words for sounds. they're adapting their language which uses a totally different system of characters meaning sound-syllables, to english - multiple letters making individual sounds, strung together to create syllables and words.

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HellaSexyS13

i understand, did you say "engrish" on purpose? hahaha glad to know i have a HKS exhaust now when i always thought it was a no name brand

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STEEZxIT

YES

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