an idea?..

[gaz]

i think this would be very helpful. as for beginners i guess like me it can be hard to understand all the acronyms and terms.

for example we could have a pinned glossery of the meanings of acronyms and general car bits.

for example. FCD from what ive learnt its a fuel cut defencer and is there to do something like put more fuel into the engine.

see i dont know what they mean in detail.. then how much they cost and whats best and why? etc..

so i reckon we should clear up all these terms, saying the term name, then what they do, why ones needed, what ones best and how much. and anything else worth knowing.

i know its alot to ask but i reckon alot of people will appreciate it and it will save many questions.

also everyone can put a post of what a word means if they are certain that they do know entirely what it means.

long winded. sorry.

what ya reckon?

[gaz]

obviously not a good idea then.

[trip]

Perfect Idea, going to take long to list and detail thome ain't feel like sitting down typing now

[lobotomy]

A glossary is a good idea mate. But I'd keep it at that, once you start to explain what's best here and there it's all opinions - and everyone has different opinions...

[gaz]

very true. maybe the glossary then.

[Guest Enzo]

yea it is a good idea..

im still hazy on turbo bits too like the actuater and what it specificaly does..

Graeme had to explain to me what fuel cut was and how to get around it....

if its ok with you ill move this post to the technical section and rename it...????

[Starlet Nath]

Sounds like a good idea to me

rrfpr got me for ages

[gaz]

go for it buddy.. all in the name of help.

[Robbo]

rrfpr - rising rate fuel pressure regulator aka fuel reg, still have trouble with that one too.

Its a great idea, just need someone to sit down and do it now.

didn't one of the maltese lads (sonic) do a guide, might have them on there.

[starletno1fan]

Took me some time to figure this out

FMIC - Front mount Inter-cooler

[scutch0]

sounds like an awesome idea.

im learning slowly on turbo stuff...

Rich.

[BlackTarw]

TMIC - top mounted intercooler (standard on gts and glanzas) generally bad as it absorbs heat from the engine (they are jokingly called interwarmers) which is why people switch to a FMIC (front mounted intercooler). The downside is the air that is being cooled by the device has to travel further which causes more lag, its usually traded off with more consistant power as its cooling the air more, so the air is more dense which equals more power.

There are a few air to water intercoolers now which use watercooling to cool a TMIC, so you get more power and minimal lag

[trip]

Argh, BlackTarw that's your oponion what ever happened to just a glossary with a small description.. Stock GT TMIC is ok for appliations below 12psi, lagless people even end up grading their TMIC, Even Sub's still use TMICs.

This would be terms in general or terms focused around starlets?

[BlackTarw]

Argh, BlackTarw that's your oponion what ever happened to just a glossary with a small description.. Stock GT TMIC is ok for appliations below 12psi, lagless people even end up grading their TMIC, Even Sub's still use TMICs.

This would be terms in general or terms focused around starlets?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Well Gaz asked

i reckon we should clear up all these terms, saying the term name, then what they do, why ones needed, what ones best and how much. and anything else worth knowing.

..so I tried to answer his questions, no need to bite my head off

I'm just paraphrasing what 'Japanese Performance' wrote about intercoolers a while back, it's a general description but should apply to the Starlet too.

TMICs have their uses but I'd just thought I'd give a for and against and explain why people would install a FMIC, basically:

TMIC = less lag but can suffer from heat soak

FMIC = get less heat soak as they get lots of nice cool air but generally more lag as the distance the air has to travel is longer.

[scutch0]

nah, its cool mate. to be honest its nice to hear some opinions on the differences between two types of cooling.

ok then guys.... personal preference wise.... what would you rather have on your starly, fmic, tmic (standard or uprated), or wtaic (water to air)? say for the standard ct9 on a 4efte??

Rich.

[gaz]

i say mix this convo up to make it sound like one description and then we have a nice detailed description.

id like a front mount but my insurance wouldnt.

[Robbo]

water to air is definately the best method, more cooling then FMIC but has no lag like it either, unfortunatly its also the most expensive.

but out of uprated TMIC or FMIC I'd go for a FMIC, the standard TMIC isn't good enough for standard as it is.

[trip]

LOL, I didn't mean to come off that way I'm sorry, what you said sounds good, just expanded to it.

Cheers,

[gaz]

ok so some words we can do .. tmic, fmic , rrfpr, bov or dv, fcd, lsd, ep82, ep91 and so on, 4fte an so on, bcc?, ecu, fc?, ebc?,

then things like boost, turbo lag.. etc.

i put question marks next to the ones i dont personally know, their must be alot more.

[BlackTarw]

ok so some words we can do .. tmic, fmic , rrfpr, bov or dv, fcd, lsd, ep82, ep91 and so on, 4fte an so on, bcc?, ecu, fc?, ebc?,

then things like boost, turbo lag.. etc.

i put question marks next to the ones i dont personally know, their must be alot more.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Not to sure about FC, could be SFC which is Specific Fuel Consumption which is how efficiently the engine uses the petrol it's given.

EBC is an Electronic Brake Controller, it's known by different names with different companies, on the new Mini (or MINI as BMW call it) it's called Electronic Brake Force Distribution or EBD. It distributes the braking of the car left and right as well as front to rear, so if you're braking on black ice you wont end up driving backwards through a hedge

a BCC is a boost cut controller ( Greddy makes a good one) it overrides limits built into the ECU, for example bypassing fuel cut.

[gaz]

thanks buddy!

[BlackTarw]

nah, its cool mate. to be honest its nice to hear some opinions on the differences between two types of cooling.

ok then guys.... personal preference wise.... what would you rather have on your starly, fmic, tmic (standard or uprated), or wtaic (water to air)? say for the standard ct9 on a 4efte??

Rich.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

what you want is to get another screenwash container and pipes and nozzles etc, then have the nozzles pointed at your intercooler for a cheap alternative, you could wire up a button to cool it before a drag race and on full throttle too

[Guest Enzo]

nice idea!

[Ryno]

can't remember where i stole this from but it sounds along the same lines so maybe we could incorparate some of it? (alough it is a bit sarky at some bits)

A-Frame - Chassis component, usually a bit of the suspension, made in the shape of a letter A

ABS - System that prevents the brakes from locking by rapidly applying and releasing braking pressure

Adjustable dampers - Shock absorbers that can vary in length to offer more or less stiffness in the ride

Active suspension - Suspension that reacts to changes in the road conditions for better handling

Aerofoil - Aerodynamic devices that can generate lift

Air box - Usually fitted with an air filter, it directs air towards the engine

Air filter - Usually foam, it removes damaging dust particles from the air going into the engine

Air flow meter - On fuel injected engines; this is used to determine the amount of air/fuel mixture going in to the engine

All Wheel Drive - A variation of Four-Wheel Drive (4WD) designed to improve on-road traction. AWD usually does not require the driver to actively engage the system

Alloys - Wheels, but not ordinary wheels. Sorted wheels!

Anchors - Slang for the brakes

Anti-roll bar - A bar that connects two suspension mountings, reducing body roll during cornering.

Balanced - Pistons and con-rods are balanced in weight to avoid vibration and uneven stress on the crank

Balanced flywheel - A flywheel is balanced with the centre-line of the crank, to avoid any vibration problems

Bar - A measurement of pressure used to describe turbo boost. I bar is 14.7psi

BHP - Brake horsepower. What engine power is measured in. Or, the number of horses it takes to pull your car when the brakes are on!

Boost - The pressure supplied by a turbo.

Bore - The diameter of a cylinder

Braided hoses - Tougher, often covered in braided steel, hoses.

Brake fade - Loss of the brake ability to stop the car. This occurs when the brakes heat up, preventing the brake pads from grabbing the discs and stopping the car

Brake pads - Found on disc brakes, brake pads provide the necessary friction to the discs to stop the car

Brake piston - Pressure from the brake lever forces the brake fluid to flow from the master cylinder down through the brake line and into the caliper. The pressure of the brake fluid causes the piston to push the brake pad to rub against the disc, thus stopping the car

Bucket seats - Seats with extra supports around the hips, ribs and shoulders to stop occupants from sliding about during cornering

Bulkhead - A structural partition that separates compartments. For example, the wall between the passenger and the engine

Bump stops - Blocks of rubber that stop the suspension components making contact with the chassis

Bushes - Used to add flexibility to suspension and engine mounting points

Caliper - A housing that fits over the brake disc and holds the pistons and brake pads

Cam - A rotating metal stick which opens and closes exhaust and inlet valves

Camber - The vertical angle of a wheel. Negative camber means the top of the wheel leans inwards slightly

Cam belt - A belt for a cam

Caravans - Bedsit on wheels that clog up the roads on bank holiday weekends. Towed by twats who enjoy shitting in buckets!

Car bore - Anal anorak wearing twat who can re-direct any conversation back to the heater fan on a Dolomite Sprint

Carbon fibre - A composite material, similar to fibreglass, made of a fibrous material coated with carbon

Carburettor - The fuel system component that meters the fuel and air and supplies the proper amounts of both to the engine

Catalytic converter - Invented by tree-huggers to try and stop harmful exhaust gasses from entering the atmosphere

Cat back exhaust - An exhaust system upgrade that consists of new pipes from the catalytic converter to the tail pipe, which increases horsepower

Chassis - The main structural component of a car, traditionally a strong channel, or box section frame.

Chip - Replacement brain for the ECU, which changes the characteristics of the engine

Clutch - A device that connects and disconnects the wheels from the engine enabling the gears to be changed

Coil spring - The most common type of spring on modern cars, where a coil of tempered metal takes the compression loads as the wheels move

Combustion chamber - The area in an engine where the air/fuel mixture is ignited

Compression ratio - The degree to which air or an air-fuel mixture is compressed. An 8:1 compression ratio means that the mixture is compressed to 1/8th its original size

Comprehensive insurance - Coverage that pays for damage you cause to someone else’s property, like running into a parked car, a pedestrian or a garage door

Cone hotline - Emergency phone number for people who have trouble rolling spliffs

Crank case - Area of the engine that houses the crankshaft and usually the oil supply

Crank shaft - The rotating shaft which moves the pistons up and down the combustion chamber

Cross-drilled - Usually associated with the crankshaft. Extra oil canals are drilled to distribute and divert oil to additionally lubricate higher stressed areas in tuned engines.

Cutting-up - Simple maneuver, which involves trying to knock the front off of the car behind

Cylinder - A chamber within an engine which contains a piston and valves. A fuel and air mixture is first compressed by the piston and then ignited. The force of this moves the piston, creating power.

Cylinder liner - In most soft aluminum engines, sleeves made of a harder material, such as cast iron

Damper - Device attached to the suspension to control bouncing movement

Displacement - The volume of a cylinder determined by the diameter of the cylinder and the distance the top of the piston travels. The displacement of an engine is the total displacement of all its engine cylinders, usually expressed in litres

DOHC - Double Overhead Cam

Dowelled flywheel - Extra holes are drilled through the flywheel for additional mounting strength.

Drive shaft - A rotating coupling which connects the gearbox with the wheels

Drive train - Those components that power the car including the engine, drive shaft, transmission and drive axle

Drum brakes - Contain two brake shoes inside a drum. As the brake pedal is depressed, the shoes are forced to the outside of the drum causing friction that stops the car

Duration - The measurement in degrees of crankshaft movement, that a valve stays open.

ECU Electronic Control Unit - A device used to control engine parameters.

Exhaust - Means of removing burnt gasses from the engine. The more powerful a car, the more exhausts it’s got

Fines - The installments you pay to the magistrate court every month

Followers - The components that prevent direct contact between the valves and cam lobes.

Forced induction - Compression of the fuel/air mixture going into the engine allowing more fuel to be burnt, increasing power

Four-pot - Four cylinder engines, or a brake caliper with four pistons

Four-wheel drive - A secondary transmission assembly which distributes power to both front and rear axles

Fuel injection - A mechanical or electronic system that feeds fuel to an engine

Fuel pressure regulator - Used to regulate the pressure of the fuel on a fuel-injected motor

GATSO - Ingenious device that stops you speeding over 10 metres

Garage - Handy 24 hour shop for when you run out of Rizzla late at night. Cold, dark house for your car. Form of dance music that doesn’t have any bass

Gas dampers - Shock absorbers that are filled with gas to offer better performance

Geometry - The position of suspension pivots relative to the chassis and each other

Grey imports - Cars that have been imported into the country through unofficial means

Ground-effect - Using the aerodynamic interference between the car and the tarmac surface to generate negative lift and increase cornering speeds

Highway Code - Like a Bible for the road. It was written a long time ago and only old people believe it

Horsepower - Term used to describe the power output of an engine

Horn - Device for scaring old people and animals

ICE - In Car Entertainment

Ignition system - The electrical system that produces a spark to ignite the fuel/air mixture in an engine

Induction system - Air intake system used to cool the car

Intake system - Tubing attached to the engine through which the air/fuel mixture reaches the cylinder

Intercooler - Bit used in turbo cars to cool the hot bits

Internal combustion engine - An engine where fuel is burned internally to produce power. External combustion engines burn their fuel outside the engine �³ for example, in a steam engine

L-plates - Warning that the driver shouldn’t actually be on the road

Lifters - American term for followers

Lightened - Pistons, crank and con-rods are machined to remove unwanted material as a lighter mass will accelerate and move at a higher speed easier.

Lightened flywheel - Either a machined standard flywheel, or for lightweight billet steel or even aluminium version, which allows the engine to rev quicker

Limited edition - Manufacturers slap stickers on a car to try and get rid of it

Lobes - The teardrop shaped extension on a cam. Or the warm soft bits at the front of laydees

Lo-riders - American trend for taking a pick-up, covering everything in gold, running it 3mm off the floor and painting arse-fucking Mexicans down the side

LSD - A mechanism that ensures that some power is always applied to each of the wheels, even when one is on a slippery surface, or a mind altering drug handy for wasting long boring evenings while your cars in the garage

Kerbing - What your laydee does to your alloys

Magazine - Publication that keeps you up to date with all the latest gear. There is only one magazine, Fast Car, and they’re the daddies.

Master cylinder - Holds the brake fluid for a disc brake system

Mirrors - Reflective device to watch cars disappearing behind you

Mods - Slang for modifications

Moment - Any difficult maneuver, which doesn’t involve hitting anything

OHC - Overhead Cam

Nitrous - Shoots babies out and your car down the road

Normally aspirated engine - An engine where all the air to the cylinders is not forced in, as with turbo chargers or super chargers

Over steer - Getting your arse out. And we don’t mean the one with a crack in it!

Pedals - You should have three. Two pedals mean you drive an automatic, or a pushbike

Pistons - Component used to compress the air/fuel mixture and transfer the charge to the crank.

Plenum - Chamber into which air is drawn to keep fuel injection units supplied

Port - Channels in the head that lead to and from the valves

Porting - Reshape the channels for maximum performance

Power steering - Parking aid for women

Producer - Ticket issued by the bab when they can’t nick you for anything

Profile - The height of a tyre in relation to its width. And that thing the Old Bill collect on you.

Progressive rate springs - Suspension springs that get stiffer the more they are compressed

Push rod engine - An engine configuration where the camshafts are located lower in the engine. Connecting rods and other components are used to operate the valves at the top of the cylinder heads

PSI Pounds per square inch - A measurement of pressure used to describe turbo boost. 14.7psi is I bar.

Pulley - A dial which allows accurate timing between the cam and crank

Radar - An evil device used by the babylon that knows how fast you’re driving, even if you don’t actually have a clue

Radar Detector - Scanning device which warns of nearby filth activity

Radiator - The device through which air passes to cool a single system in a car

Raised oil pressure - Increasing the oil flow capacity with a more powerful oil pump

Rebore - Increasing the diameter of a cylinder

Red mist - Similar to Cocaine in the respect that it makes you feel you can do anything

Rims - Slang for wheels. So called because that’s the bit everyone smashes against the kerb

Road Rage - An attempt to prevent dangerous driving through violence

Roll - A crash named after some food

Roll bar - A suspension component connected to front or rear suspension links to limit body roll during cornering

RPM Revolutions Per Minute - a unit of measure used to express the rotational speed of an engine

Rust - The brown stuff pushing its way up through your respray

Servo - An auxiliary device that reduces the effort needed to operate the brakes or steering

Security - Yet another expense bought about because some thieving bastard can’t keep his filthy paws away from your gear

Shock absorbers - A suspension component that absorbs energy or shock and contributes to a smoother, more controlled ride

Side draught carbs - Carburettors which allow air to pass through them horizontally

Sleeping policeman - Part of a government conspiracy to stop you slamming your car and pulling all the laydees

Skid - Controlled way of stopping, not usually appreciated by passengers

Solenoid - A component which uses Electro-magnetic force to move a valve

Spoiler - Represents the size of the drivers man-todger

Springs - Work in conjunction with shock absorbers or to cushion road irregularities

Stopping distance - Always a few meters shorter than the distance between you and the car in front.

Supercharger - A positively driven compressor providing forced induction.

Swirl pots - Devices that remove unwanted air from liquids

T-Bone - A crash named after some food

The Professionals - �­70s documentary on

advanced driving techniques

Throttle body - Used to control the delivery of fuel to the engine

Torque - The maximum amount of force produced at a specific speed

Torque steer - When you put your foot down and your front wheels want to go everywhere but forward.

Torsion bar - Metal bar fixed at one end, free to turn at the other, which provides springing by its resistance to twisting forces.

Total - To completely destroy your car

Traction control - Method of controlling the power fed to the driving wheels to prevent loss of grip through wheel spin

Traffic jam - Slow moving line of stressed people in cars, every one trying not to show any sort of emotion. ItÃ?­s best to attack these full on! Any space is your space and if someone doesn’t like it, refer to Road Rage

Twin-cam - Engine with two overhead cams

Tyres - Boring protective rubber ring which goes round the rim. Can easily be made more interesting with a little help from your right foot

Under steer - When your front wheels want to go straight on half way through a bend

Undertaking - Dodgy manoeuvre named after the person you’re most likely not to see afterwards

Valves - Regulate entrance and exit of fuel into and out of the combustion chamber

Valve lifters - Sit underneath the cam lobes transfer pressure to the valves

Valve springs - Supply the returning force for valves

Valve Timing - The process of ensuring the cam and crankshaft are moving in unison

Van - Usually white and being driven like the drivers just swallowed a wasp

Variable intake manifold - A set-up in which the path through which air travels into the engine can be altered.

Variable valve timing - Engine valves can be adjusted to create higher fuel-to-air ratios. The higher the ratio, the bigger the explosion that drives the engine and thus more power

VASCAR - Police In Car video camera used to supply Police Camera Action with new footage

Venturi - Restricted passage which speeds up the flow of gas or liquid

Vents - Collection point for dead insects and leaves

Vented brakes - Brakes with numerous small holes drilled into the brake disc, to help cooling

Wankel engine - An engine perfected by Felix Wankel, which gets its power from an almost triangle-shaped rotor spinning within an almost oval housing. The advantages are very smooth operation, more reliability than a standard piston engine and greater ability to utilize multiple fuels.

Wire ringed - A method to contain excessive compression from trying to escape via the head gasket, found between the cylinder head and block face. A common reliability mod, used on high boost turbo engines. Also a surgical procedure to reduce anal leakage in elderly porn stars

X-y-z - The route taken by laydee drivers, where a man will use the slightly more direct A-B approach

[lobotomy]

That's a good start Ryno,

About the cheap intercooler spray... I have a secrect idea along the lines of charge cooling but slightly different (but it's a secret so I'm not telling ) --For a conventional air-air cooler system.