A-Pex

Hey Guys!

I've been banging my head against the proverbial wall this evening trying to get up to speed on all the forum specific acronyms and terminology. I've read the FAQ sticky, as well as most, if not all, of the links associated. I searched for a thread that might list them all, but came up empty.

It might be the NooB in me that's preventing me from finding what I'm looking for, or it might just not exist. If it's the latter I was wondering if you guys wouldn't mind helping me build up a "Corvette Forum Terminology" list that we can have linked to the FAQ.

Anyone interested in helping flesh this out?

Here's what I was able to uncover and some things I'm scratching my head about:

Corvette Forum Specific Terms/Acronyms:
A4 – 4-speed Automatic Tranny
A6 – 6-speed Automatic Tranny
AB - Auto Buffs
A/F - Air Fule Ratio
AFR - Air Fule Ratio
AH – Corvette Active Handling
ARE - Agostino Racing Engines
ARH - American Racing Headers
BPP - Breathless Performance Products
BSM - Body Side Moldings
CAI - Cold Air Intake
CAT Back - Aftermarket Cataletic Converter & Back Exhaust
CF - Carbon Fiber
COH - Corvettes of Houston
Dough Boys (aka Pilsbury Dough Boys) - 05 C6 Steering wheel (immagine the doughboy head sitting atop the 4 spoke wheel)
Dyno Tune - The tunning performed on a Dynomometer
F55 - Magnetic Ride Select Option
FI – Forced Induction
FRC – Fixed Roof Coupe
FRC - Fuel Rail Cover
FRC - Flying Roof Club (yeeouch!)
Gumbies - Z06 Wheels
H/C – Heads Cam Pkg
Hookers - specifc make of headers
Honker - Callaway's Cold Air Intake
Lean - Lower concentration of fuel in the A/F ratio
LG - specific make of headers
LPE - Lingenfelter Performance Engineering
MN12 (M12) – Z06 6-speed
MN6 – Corvette 6-speed
Nannies - Traction control and active handling
NPP - Dual Mode Exhaust (mild to wild)
Rich - Higher concentration of fuel in the A/F ratio
RPO - Corvette option codes (http://www.corvettesig.com/codes.html)
SOTP - Seat Of The Pants
Street Tune - Tune done while driving car with computer and tuning software connected to car.
SW - Specter Werkes
TC – Corvette Traction Control
TM - Torque Modulation
VE - Vette Essentials
Vert - Convertible
Wideband - Meter that more acuratley measures your A/F
WOT - Wide Open Throttle
WCC - West Coast Corvettes
YMMV - Your Mileage May Vary
Z51 - Performance Handling package/option (not forum specific)




General Forum Lingo:
AFAIK - As Far As I Know
BBL - Be Back Later
BFD - Big...Fat... Deal
BFN - Bye For Now
BOHIC - Bend Over, Here It Comes
BOHICA - Bend Over, Here It Comes AGAIN!
BRB - Be Right Back
BSOD - Blue Screen Of Death - the windows "Crash" screen
BTDT - Been There Done That
BTW - By The Way
DILLIGAS - Do I Look Like I Give A S---
DILLIGAF - A more emphatic version of DILLIGAS
FUBAR - "Fixed" Up Beyond All Recognition
FUD - Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt - BS intended to scare you about a product.
FWIW - For What It's Worth
FYI - For Your Information
g - grin - usually in brackets or angles <g> or [g]
bg - big grin
vbg - very big grin
vbseg - very big stuff eating grin
gd&h - grinning, ducking and hiding
gd&r - grinning, ducking and running
gd&r,vvf - grinning, ducking and running, very very fast
GMAB - Give Me A Break
GMAFB - a vehement version of Give Me A Break <g>
GTK - Good To Know
HSIK - How Should I Know
HT - Hardtop (related to FRC)
IAC - In Any Case
IAE - In Any Event
IANAL - I Am Not A Lawyer
IBIWISI - I'll Believe It When I See It
IB4TL - In Before The Lock
INAL - I'm Not A Lawyer
IMO - In My Opinion
IMHO - In My Humble Opinion
IMMHO - In My Most Humble Opinion
IOW - In Other Words
IYKWIM - If you know what I mean
JFYI - Just For Your Information
JMHO - Just My Humble Opinion
JMO - Just My Opinion
KMA - Kiss My ...Ahem....
LOL - Laughing Out Loud
LMAO - Laughing My <ahem> Off
LTFSA - Leave The Fine Settings Alone
NBD - No Big Deal
NOYB - None Of Your Business
NOYDB - A forceful version of NOYB <g>
NOYFB - A an even more forceful version of NOYB <g>
NRN - No Reply Necessary
OIC - Oh, I See
OMG – Oh My God
OTL - Out To Lunch
OTOH - On The Other Hand
PFM - Pure Freaking Magic
PIMP - Peeing In My Pants (laughing so hard....)
PITA - Pain In The A**
PMFBI - Pardon Me For Butting In
PMFJI - Pardon Me For Jumping In
PMJI - Pardon My Jumping In
POS - Piece of S---
PTB - Powers That Be
RNA - Ring, No Answer (communication or telephone term for a problem)
ROFL - Rolling On Floor Laughing
ROTF - Rolling On The Floor
ROTFL - Rolling On The Floor, Laughing
RSN - Real Soon Now
RTFM - Read The Fine Manual
RYFM - Read Your Fine Manual
SOTP - Seat Of The Pants
SNAFU - Situation Normal, All "fixed" Up
TANJ - There Ain't No Justice
TANSTAAFL - There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
TDNBW - This Does Not Bode Well
TIA - Thanks In Advance
TIC - Tongue In Cheek
TMTOYH - Too much time on your hands
TMUI - Too much useless information
TPTB - The Powers That Be
TSTO - To Stupid To Operate
TTFN - Ta Ta For Now
TTT – To the Top (when posting to a thread to bring it back to the top)
TTYL - Talk (or Type <g> ) To You Later
UABFH - Use A Bigger Freaking Hammer!
WAD - Working As Designed (... is a feature, not a bug)
WAG - Wild A-- Guess.
SWAG - Super or Scientific WAG
WAM - World According to MSFT (MicroSoft)
WGAS - Who Gives A S---
WGAF - A more emphative version of WGAS
WOA - Work Of Art
WSMM - Well Shut My Mouth (Southern Computers Only)
WTH - What The H---
WTF - What The F---
WYSIWYG - What you see is what you get
Y2K - year 2000
YHIHF - You Heard It Hear First

STILL UNKNOWN:



As this builds up, I'll edit the list later and update it as new input comes in.

Cheers!

joytown

A few more that threw me when I first started reading these boards:

WOT = Wide Open Throttle (I think)
NPP = Dual Mode Exhaust

(F55 is indeed Magnetic Select Ride Control)

I think this list is a great idea. Maybe there's one somewhere but I couldn't find it either).

Cheers,

-jon

welcome2try

Good list now fine tune it...

lockman

ok NPP or dual ehaust mode. is when at low rpm the exhaust comes out of the 2 1/2 inch hole on the exhust and at higher rpms it comes out the 3 inch hole it's also called mild to wild

Vette_DD

This may be overkill, but here it is. BTW, NPP doesn't really stand for anything, it's just the RPO code for the dual mode exhaust.

danl72

Thats a long list.

joytown

Yet another one I had to sort of figure out (yes, I'm a n00b):

CAI = Cool Air Intake (I'm pretty sure )

-jon

A-Pex

Another Don

BTDT = Been there, done that.

chsmith112

Wide band is a meter that more acuratley measures your A/F.

Smitter

I thought FRC was fuel rail covers? Shows what I know.

dvilin

You certainly did your homework.

talon90

It is. FRC has a triple meaning in the Corvette world. Fuel rail cover is one of them, fixed roof coupe is the another. Flying Roof Club is the third and one that you don't ever want to see.

johnodrake

BOHICA is Bend Over, here it comes AGAIN

joytown

It's not my list . but this would be a lot more useful if you separated the standard chat and msg board slang (eg, WTF, IANAL, etc) from the Corvette specific stuff.

My .02

-jon

bosco 08

http://www.urbandictionary.com/

oldmansan

CAI = Cold Air Intake

Most of the acronyms listed are web acronyms, not car acronyms.

San

A-Pex

Great Idea, I'll work to separate them out.

joytown

Much better! :-)

Also .. another term I'd like defined - in re tires:

Gumby?

LTC Z06

This is already in most of the FAQ, at least the two I built.