you might want to ask that in a regular forum, on road, off road, whatever, sometimes the right answer is specific to the car too. I hang in the elec off road so I'll link one of the best tuning threads there.
http://www.rctech.net/forum/electric...ber-links.htmlThe page you linked is excellent and there are manyothers like that, some on petit, JQ, hudy, get em all , sound slike you'll get the hang of it in no time
And yes your general thinking about how that term is used today is correct. Proper language and terminology sure do eliminate a lot of confusion.
Good on ya.