Originally Posted by Troux

I agree, it's much easier to keep up with 305, 350, 427, 454, 632, etc. than to remember engine codes telling you what the company decided to name it, and all sorts of abbreviations for cam count and fuel delivery. The 2JZ GTE (2nd gen, JZ family, DOHC (from G, WTF?), Turbocharged with Electronic FI) could have easily been called the "183 turbo," or "3000 turbo" for metric, and it'd be easy to tell what it was.