VOLUTIST: (noun) One who is unnaturally addicted to things resembling or having anything to do with scroll shapes, or multiplying horsepower by squares and cubes

VOLUTISH: (verb/adjective) Being essentially screwy in nature, or leading to high pressures that might make your head explode

VOLUTICAL: Possibly having a use in turbo's, but not necessarily defined

VOLUTISM: (colloquialism) A word or phrase that has a particular connection to turbocharging, and not very much else

VOLUTISTIC: (descriptive, or adjective) One who has an intolerant attitude as regards those not part of the "VOLUTIST" Community, or VOLUTE Society as a whole (SEE ALSO: Turbo-Centric)
(ALT) One who "puffs oneself up"...

VOLUTE CENTRIC: One who cannot conceive of an automobile without a turbocharger

VOLUTOID: Basically damned screwy!!!


Please add on to this list, as ideas come to you

~Dutch


* PS: I live in Tennessee. "GO VOLS" has nothing to do with it...

 

VOLUTALIST: One who is never satisfied with normal results

CATASTROPHIC DISASSEMBLY: Results of bad math

TERMINAL CORRUPTION: Results of oil carbonizing in a bearing cartridge

HYPER-TECHNICAL: "I can post a link, but I don't get it either..."

SUBJECTED TO THOROUGH CARBONIZATION: The previous owner FRIED it

OUT of WARRANTEE: You opened the box




~ This is looking like a classic so far


How many more can you think of? This is an odd community with it's own language...

(Pardon me, that's an old song that I like a lot)

~ to my odd way of thinking what that man played was turbocharged at the time



Now you have a clue how far back I come from...

NOS: The aftermarkets invitation to blow up an engine that was not built for it

SUPERCHARGER: How to add fifty extra non-versatile pounds to an engine that creates more problems



But those last are ordinary words

***the sound of a heavy door opening***

Okay, it's ALL YOURS!!!
~GO for it...

The effects of a turb seem to call for a lot of deep engine stroke understanding, and that leads to uncommon terminology. The POWER added by the turb should come on at a crank angle where it is best used - about plus and minus thirty on a right angle to top dead center (?) I think...

And that is where the rabbit hole begins


In turn it means understanding EFI and ECU's. Both fuel and ignition in the modern era
~Those add two new languages

You would almost have to be a hacker born after 2005 to really get into engine management at the ECM level