[uhhtrayyou]

UPDATE NOW IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER!!!
-Thanks to Michele! AKA - Ambiguous


lets get a list together like:


4WD - four wheel drive
AT - Automatic Transmission
AWD - All wheel drive (or Another Weird Dumbass)
AX or AutoX - Autocross
BBK - Big Brake Kit (or bar-b-q'd kids)
BY - brickyard
CAI - Cold Air Intake
Cd - Coefficient of aerodynamic drag
CF - carbon fiber
CO - Coil Overs or Colorado
CS - chrome silver
CS - Chrome Silver - Carbon Silver.
DB - daytona blue
DE - Duel exhaust OR Driver's Education event
DIY - Do it yourself
ECU - Engine control unit
FI - Forced Induction
FS - For sale
FSBO - For Sale By Owner
FTL - For The Loss
FTW - For The Win
FWD - front wheel drive (or Focking Weird Dumbass)
FWIW - for what it's worth
FYI - For Your Information
HFC - High Flow Cat
HPDE - High performance driver's ed
ID - inner diameter or identification
IDC - I Dont Care
IDK - I Dont Know
IDTS - I Dont Think So
IF - interlagos fire
IMO - In my opinion
JK - Just kidding
LA - liquid aluminum
LS - lemans sunset
LSD - Limited Slip Differential
MAF - Mass Air Flow sensor
MB - magnetic black
MT - Manual Transmission
NA - Naturally Aspirated
OD - outer diameter or over dose
OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer
PPW - pike's peak white
PW - Post *****
PW'ing - Post Whoring
RL - redline
RWD - Rear wheel drive (or Really Weird Dumbass)
SAE - Society of Automotive Engineers,
SB - super black
SMB - san marino blue
SMG - Sequential Manual Gearbox
SO - solar orange
SS- silverstone
TC - Traction Control
TDC - Top Dead Center
TP - Test Pipe
TPMS - Tire pressure monitoring system
TT - Twin Turbo or Time Trial
UY - ultra yellow
VDC - Vehicle dynamic control
WOT - Wide open throttle
WTB - Want to buy

 

[surfcity]

I renamed and stickied this thread in the newbie forum.

 

[Conan]

probably might be a good idea to consolidate each post into a single first post so folks don't have to check out every post if they are looking for a definition.

Then just update the first post as folks make additional posts.

 

[SlickRick2869]

probably might be a good idea to consolidate each post into a single first post so folks don't have to check out every post if they are looking for a definition.

Then just update the first post as folks make additional posts.

+1

 

[surfcity]

probably might be a good idea to consolidate each post into a single first post so folks don't have to check out every post if they are looking for a definition. Then just update the first post as folks make additional posts.

Done.

+1

Done.

 

[UofAPPW]

nice work surf :thumbsup: thats a good lookin list so far

 

[JohnnyB350Z]

forgot to put FTW, FTL,

 

[surfcity]

forgot to put FTW, FTL,

FTW has recently taken on a new meaning other than the one I've always recognized it as....

 

[JohnnyB350Z]

you mean, F&CK that *****?

 

[surfcity]

you mean, F&CK that *****?

no, the world.

 

[JohnnyB350Z]

lol, that also works too.

 

[buzzardmountain]

forgot to put FTW, FTL,

Done....

 

[uhhtrayyou]

sweet! my topic got pinned. thats awesome.

 

[surfcity]

nice work surf :thumbsup: thats a good lookin list so far

don't thank me, thank uhhtrayyou.

sweet! my topic got pinned. thats awesome.

look at you, influencing websites and all....

 

[04lemansz]

Do you think you could alphabetize the list so I don't have to read the whole thing when I'm looking for a certain abbreviation :rolf2:














Kidding...

 

[SlickRick2869]

AT - Automatic Transmission
MT - Manual Transmission

 

[uhhtrayyou]

AT - Automatic Transmission
MT - Manual Transmission

added

 

[uhhtrayyou]

anyone know what AMT means?

 

[Conan]

not sure about AMT, but I think we need to add:

SMG - Sequential Manual Gearbox.

 

[ambigu0us]

Here it is NUM - ALPHA order....not that hard kids

My suggestion -- replace the first post with this and continue adding -- in NUM-ALPHA order.

4WD - four wheel drive
AT - Automatic Transmission
AWD - All wheel drive (or Another Weird Dumbass)
AX or AutoX - Autocross
BBK - Big Brake Kit (or bar-b-q'd kids)
BY - brickyard
CAI - Cold Air Intake
Cd - Coefficient of aerodynamic drag
CF - carbon fiber
CO - Coil Overs or Colorado
CS - chrome silver
CS - Chrome Silver - Carbon Silver.
DB - daytona blue
DE - Duel exhaust OR Driver's Education event
DIY - Do it yourself
ECU - Engine control unit
FI - Forced Induction
FS - For sale
FTL - For The Loss
FTW - For The Win
FWD - front wheel drive (or Focking Weird Dumbass)
HFC - High Flow Cat
HPDE - High performance driver's ed
ID - inner diameter or identification
IDC - I Dont Care
IDK - I Dont Know
IDTS - I Dont Think So
IF - interlagos fire
IMO - In my opinion
JK - Just kidding
LA - liquid aluminum
LS - lemans sunset
MAF - Mass Air Flow sensor
MB - magnetic black
MT - Manual Transmission
NA - Naturally Aspirated
OD - outer diameter or over dose
OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer
PPW - pike's peak white
RL - redline
RWD - Rear wheel drive (or Really Weird Dumbass)
SAE - Society of Automotive Engineers,
SB - super black
SMB - san marino blue
SO - solar orange
SS- silverstone
TC - Traction Control
TDC - Top Dead Center
TP - Test Pipe
TPMS - Tire pressure monitoring system
TT - Twin Turbo or Time Trial
UY - ultra yellow
VDC - Vehicle dynamic control
WOT - Wide open throttle
WTB - Want to buy