Acronym quiz

Anti lock brakes

Air Conditionning

All wheel drive

Accessory

B.....Switching Valve

Before Top Dead Center

Had to replace it in my Supra!

???

Elec Cont. Trans

Engine (or electronic)Cont Unit

Electr. Fuel inj.

Nope...sorry...

Front Engine FWD

Front Eng RWD

Field Serv Man

Inches of HG (Hydrometer reading)

Kansas Depart. Utilities

Kilos Per Hour (NO, NOT what you can smoke!)

Light emitt. Diode

Left Hand

Miles per hour

Mister; formal greeting

Something kids and old people take

A company that TRIES to build Toyotas, but doesn't quite get it right...

Port Installed Option (thanks, Ray!)

Port of Entry

a pressure reading

Right Hand

RIPPEMS!! Important on a motorcycle, when you are letting it rip, and you have enough Rippems to go UP to gears, but go DOWN one instead!

Calls for Prozac

Society of Autom. Engin.

hmmmmm...single port FI?

Place to take a NAP!

Suppl. Restr. Sys.

Old car built by AMC?

Spec Serv Man.?

Another old car built by AMC? Spec Serv Tool

Hmmmm....

Top Dead Center

Something my Supra DOESN'T have! :( Something extremely expensive to repair! ;)

The Movie Channel

Just after PMS

Variable Induction System, or Let's get more fuel economy

Another Switch. Valve

Another Switch. Vavle

Variable Valve Timing

Hmmm...VVT + Injection???

Anyone familiar with the telephone industry would beg to differ on the second place award.

Or the Computer Industry!

PCMCIA: People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms!

Some I knew, some I guessed (answer followed by ?), some I didn't know. And I did not look at the other responses either. :-)

ABS - anti-lock braking system AC - air conditioning AWD - all wheel drive ACC - accessory BSV - ? BTDC - before(?) top dead center BVSV - ? CBU - carburetor? ECT - ? ECU - electronic control unit EFI - electronic fuel injection ESA - ? FF - fast forward? FR - fast reverse? FSM - factory service manual? InHg - inches of mercury KDU - ? KPH - kilometers per hour LED - light emitting diode LH - left hand MPH - miles per hour MR - Mister? NAP - Snooze? NUMMI - Is this really an acronym? If so, I did not know that. PIO - ? POE - point of entry? Or is it port of entry? PSI - pounds per square inch RH - right hand RPM - revolutions per minute SADS - sad sack? SAE - self addressed envelope? No, that's SASE, stamped. Never mind. SFI - sequential fuel injection? SPA - ? SRS - supplemental restraint system SSC - ? SSM - ? SST - ? TCI - ? TDC - top dead center TEMS - ? TMC - ? TMS - ? T-VIS - ? TVSV - ? VSV - ? VVT - variable valve timing VVT-I - (intelligent) variable valve timing?

I didn't see these which I knew:

EGR - exhaust gas recirculation EPA - Environmental Protection Agency FORD - Found On the Road Dead -OR- Fixed Or Repaired Daily KIA - Killed In Action MAF - mass air flow MAP - manifold absolute pressure NHTSA - National Highway Traffic Safety Administration PCV - positive crankcase ventilation PFI - programmed fuel injection

F@ckin' Over Rated Dud?

Actually, my favourite is F@cked Over Rebuilt Dodge. :-)

"Ray O" wrote in news:970a9$43346149$44a4a10d$ snipped-for-privacy@msgid.meganewsservers.com:

Did you do all that from memory?

TWAIN (as used for scanners, etc): Technology Without An Interesting Name

;-)

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LOL!

Yup. Not bad for an old fart out of the business for the past 13 years huh?

I'm impressed! You got a lot right! A solid B+

Ya, dat's vat I meant!!!

Something like NUMMI?

What was *I* Smoking yesterday? "MR2"????

Um, like I said! ;)

So that's what that is!

Hey, between owning a Maru load of Toys, and reading everything I can about Toys, and having had access to TSRMs on and off for years, I should have done better!

I never ran across a BVSV until I got the Supra, since one nipple was broken. Seems to be common on this car...

Then again, a LOT of 'problems' seem to be common on this car...