WIP Beta released Satsuma 210 '58 5.01

just a suggestion maybe turn the wheels over to Miramar wheels? its just a scale thing.

 

The real life counterpart, Datsun 210 has 15" wheels and 5.00-15 or 5.60-15 tires depending on the body style. Most European and Japanese 50's cars had quite large wheels and very skinny tires. The roads were pretty poor back then and larger tires roll over the potholes easier.

 

Hey on the rotary engine I don't hear anything when accelerating and decelerating.

 

That's because it doesn't have any sounds yet.

 

Great mod! Maybe it would be even better if it had a different name, because whenever I pick this car, and the first time I saw it on the mod repo, I immediately thought of the Satsuma from My Summer Car. Maybe you should make that as a successor the the 210?

 

The front axle is too strong, it's very hard to break

 

That was how Mike94 fixed the wheel wobble, he reinforced the front axle with more nodes securing it to the body.
Consider that issue fixed as soon as a workaround is found for fixing the wheel wobble issue.

 

Wankel engine catches on fire a lot, but I think the idea is really cool and it is modeled pretty well

 

It does? How come? If i grab even the Turbocharged version, and do about 100 burnouts (i did punch it gazilions of times) it just overheats the turbo, the engine itself takes a pretty huge beating to overheat... or burst in flames for that matter.

 

First time it did I was driving the hills in the grid map and my car did a few cartwheels and caught on fire. It can also catch on fire from driving straight into a wall at moderate speeds.

 

Really? That's weird... that's never happened to me.

 

Guess it's just the way I drive then lol.

 

For me the engine sound still plays when the engine is off. Also at full rpm it barely sounds like it is above tickover? Could be an issue my end but it seems wrong. Other than that, an excellent mod

 

I think the front axles are very strong in real life, as they are made from thick solid steel. It can break in very hard crashes, though.

In fact, I only moved a few nodes around and made some beams stronger. The axle construction is the same as before. It's funny how moving some node an inch can change how the axle behaves so much.

Turbos, particularly the Stage 3 turbo, generate insane amounts of heat. I don't know how to adjust them, as there are no turbo related thermal values. Even the Stage 1 turbo shows "Turbo overheating" message after few hundred meters of driving. Also I had to bump up the super radiator efficiency into insane value just because of the overheating turbo.
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I found this very helpful 1959 Datsun Owner's Manual when searching for info about the van. I adjusted the front axle alignment according to the values in the manual and found out that the alignment was pretty close to real specs. The caster was off only by +0.2 degrees and SAI by +1 degree. The camber should be +1.5 degrees but it seems that it's impossible to adjust properly. Precompressing the axle beams screw up the SAI and precompressing the wheel attach beams has no effect until they break. Changing the height of the outer or inner wheel nodes changes the camber, but it affects only the original wheels and it makes the flexbodies wobble. Changing the camber made the Satsuma steering much sharper and better IMO.

 

The new wagon is great, and the deformation is much better. However I do agree with whoever said it that the steering is much too light with a wheel, and I also believe the new engine sounds are too quiet. You can barely hear it over the tire noise.

Despite those two minor points, I really love it. That's coming from someone who's very picky

 

I can take care of that for the next update... that is if you'll let me of course

 

Looks like there is a problem with materials.
I did clear the cache.

 

Sure, if you can fix it.

Do you have the Soliad 4000 mod? I tested it yesterday and found out that it somehow breaks the vanilla hubcap materials. The Satsuma uses original hubcaps that are available with any classic steel wheels. If you spawn the Barstow or Moonhawk with steel wheels, they will also have this problem.

 

Awesome. Should i start now?

 

There's no hurry. I'm just starting to model the van body now. It may take two weeks to model and jbeam the new body and 30 cm longer slightly different truck frame.