Wow

Hey no offense if you disliked my post.
Your engine shop, your rules

Last edited by Mr. Apex, Tue, 21 Dec 2021 14:57.

Oh, awesome, looking forward to these

Last edited by Mr. Apex, Sat, 18 Dec 2021 01:12.

Thanks for the tip.

That one I was actually aware of. What surprises me is that a 3.2 liter inline six with a long crankshaft can spin up so fast in real life. It must have pretty light pistons

Yeah, will try out this feature a little bit

I found a pretty good onboard video of the OS Giken TC24-B1Z:

https://www.facebook.com/OSGik ... un-240z/2007392546053347/

It's kinda surprising how fast the revs surge
https://www.facebook.com/OSGiken/videos/10163811564765198/

Last edited by Mr. Apex, Wed, 15 Dec 2021 19:07.

Oh, all right, cool

I wonder what you come up with. Yesterday it was very late but this morning I tried out my very first go at an LFS Editor engine, and frankly it's not bad! Turned up unevenness and intake muffling and it sounds glorious. I swapped it in an XRT and its a dream around BL1 just making the final gear a bit shorter. The car is very controllable with so much revs at your disposal and this nice, progressive torque curve

I wonder how much better it can become. This engine is the perfect match for a 1'000 kg 240Z, in real life and in LFS.

I wish I had the exact torque curve of the real one to mimic

Last edited by Mr. Apex, Wed, 15 Dec 2021 04:15.

BTW: Here's my first go at building an OS Giken TC24-B1Z

Kinda tricky. Obviously there's several things wrong with it

Quote from martin18 :

I mean this is how I test my engines. I make ModFind version of an LFS car save it hit test mod and in single player there is test tab in the mods section in the garage

This how incredibly long it took me to finally test the engine
The reason being that I play LFS on a Mac via Wine and I first wasn't able to get the Editor running.

… and incredible it is! Fits equally well in an XRT, LX6 and UFR (UFR just needs rear-biased AWD of course )
Five stars out of five. I see you chose a flat-plane crank

Thank you very much for your work Martin

https://www.lfs.net/attachment/263914

wow!

Quote from FFIVGUY :

what is "crossplane" option?

IMHO crossplane refers to the crankshaft. An engine can have

• a Flat-Plane crankshaft
  
• a Cross-Plane crankshaft
  

Read this article if you wanna know more: https://www.motortrend.com/how ... ne-and-flat-plane-cranks/

Weight and weight distribution of the mod
Generally I think 1208 KG's might be little bit on the heavy side, since old Datsuns are fragile tincans, according to Wikipedia the stock 240 was 1044 kg. (The later 260 and 280 models were heavier, also the 2+2 seater was about 1200 kgs).

Even swapping in an RB26 engine would not raise the weight that substantially I think

EDIT: REAL-LIFE 240Z WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION IS ACTUALLY REAR-BIASED
I was wondering about the front-to-rear weight distribution since the car is designed from the ground up as a sportscar, has a front-midship placement of the engine and the passenger compartment placed wayyyy back.

So I dug out this forum post:

Factory Service Manual 1972 spec.'s related to spring rates

FRONT LF 562 lbs & RF 604 lbs = 1166 lbs/435 KG {48%}
REAR 635 lbs & 635 lbs = 1270 lbs/474 KG {52%}

2436 lbs/909 KG total weight

Source: https://www.classiczcars.com/f ... omment&comment=426966

Last edited by Mr. Apex, Sat, 4 Dec 2021 19:38.

Setup help for users IMO
Toe angle was at -0.9°, dial that out

Rear springs were stiffer than the front even though the front has more weight with that heavy inline-six, so adjust that
same with the damping

Give it some suspension travel, i gave it:
0.145 m Front
0.155 m Rear

Last edited by Mr. Apex, Sat, 4 Dec 2021 19:25.

Ok thanks for this info Martin

Hey I hope you do not consider this offtopic:

For users who do not yet have mastered the LFS Editor, is it possible to make a private copy of a mod for offline use and swap in another engine?

Is it as simple as renaming the engine file and place it in the corresponding car folder under Mods?

Last edited by Mr. Apex, Fri, 3 Dec 2021 14:19.

Wow that will be educational

I absolutely love it. It's so good already!
The suspension and gear setup is an easy fix, two minutes. I mean it all depends what you wanna use it for.
The way it ships its just slammed to the bumpstops, some people will want that.

Engine sounds very RB26-ish

Stretched tires on wide 15-inch Watas are genius! Perfect size.
Thank you very much for your awesome work!!!

Last edited by Mr. Apex, Tue, 5 Apr 2022 02:15.

Overfenders, Recaros, green harnesses, Ducktail
It's so beautiful!

I always wanted a 240Z in LFS

Kindly consider swapping in this naturally aspirated engine that revs to 10K:
https://www.lfs.net/forum/post/1973107#post1973107

Also a left hand drive version would be very appreciated, but hey whatever floats your boat

Is the Devil Z that got published this one?
Its' stunningly beautiful
https://www.lfs.net/files/vehmods/FE5CF2

Wait, it's another one? So we'll have two 240Z's already

Brilliant

I was just trying this one out yesterday night on BL1 and I love the setup, It's so balanced. Just needed to adjust the gears and that was all.

Also its sounds absolutely great already.

It's looking so good already

Quote from martin18 :

Ohh yeah 🤣 95 kg Is impossible with LFS modeler… it’s like 140 kg

Oh, I'm sure that's just temporary. Probably exact engine weights will be available later on. Of course the low weight is one of the key features of these engines, but I'm excited to try yours out anyway.

Very nice rims too

Thank you very much, Martin!
This super-light 95 kg V8 will go in my E30

I'm sure the engine will be super convenient for lots of other projects as well. Will test it out as soon as possible!