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Aspirated: To drain air through by suction, in automotive terms, with a carburetor.

Bonnet: More commonly know as the "Trunk" of a VW. It is the storage area in the front of your VW.

Camber: Camber is the inclination of the wheel away from the vertical. The wheel leans outward in the positive camber, inward in the negative camber.

Caster: Caster is the angle between the steering axis and the vertical line through the wheel hub as seen from the side of the car.

CNG: Compressed Natural Gas: CNG is is a gas just like what is used in homes and businesses for cooking and heating. The only difference is that CNG is at a much higher pressure.

DIDKNEW: meaning Did not know what it was, or something too horrible to describe. Source: David Bisset in 1986 in Denton, Texas.

Deck Lid: More commonly know as the "hood" of a VW. It is the cover for the engine compartment.

EFI: Electronic Fuel Injection. A fully intergraded system of fuel delivery. Meaning: the system requires that maintenance be done by a qualified service technician.

Fuel Injection: An integrated Fuel delivery system that can be set to use several types of fuels. Those fuels are Gasoline, Propane, Butane, CNG, LP gas, and Hydrogen. Fuel injection systems can be turned much tighter than an Aspirated system can, and in turn be more fuel efficient.

MIG: Metal Inert Gas; or wire welders usually the gas used is Argon

Naval Jelly: a HIGHLY corrosive solvent. Also contains phosphoric acid. More information can be found here at Shore Chemical website

OEM: Original Equipment Manufacturer; A company that builds a device, tool, hardware, software or component under their own brand, trademark or copyright and is sold to distributors or to retailer. OEM rarely sell to the general public directly.

Restoration: To bring back to new, like new or to factory new condition.

S.A.E.: Society of Automotive Engineers: The organization that set standards for the U.S. on automotive parts and components

Severe Service: Stop and go traffic, idling for long periods of time, very high mileage (over 30,000 miles a year)

TBI as defined by Holley - "Throttle Body Injection (TBI) - In TBI systems the throttle body assembly has two major functions: regulate the airflow, and house the fuel injectors and the fuel pressure regulator. The choices of throttle bodies range from single barrel/single injector unit generally sized for less than 150 HP to four barrel/four injector unit capable of supporting fuel and air flow for 600 HP. The injectors are located in an injector pod above the throttle valves. The quantity of fuel the injector spray into the intake manifold is continuously controlled by the ECU. Most of the TBI systems use bottom fed fuel injectors."

Tire Separation: Tire separation is when the tread and belts come off of the rest of the tire. The results are blow outs, damage to fenders and wheel wells, or even roll over accidents.

Toe in: is then the distance is less at the top of the tires and more at bottom of the tires as viewed from the front of the vehicle.

Toe out: is where the tie rods are adjusted such that the front edges of the tires to be farther apart than the rear edges of the tires when viewing the car from above

Transaxle: a combined transmission and drive axle in one contained unit.

VIN - Vehicle Identification Number. A unique number that identifies one vehicle from another for proposes of Stolen vehicle recovery and tracking.

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