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8 Sep @ 9:15pm
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Project Summer Car [B42]

Description
Project Summer car:

Project summer car is an advanced car engine mechanic overhaul mod.

Features:
  • 18 simulated parts types and 4 fluids that all matter for your cars performance when used with Realistic Car Physics!
  • Sport and racing parts to upgrade your cars performance!
  • Supports swaping transmissions and torque converters between cars for different gear counts!
  • Designed to be used with Realistic Car physics to fully support all the different engine and transmission features.
  • Fully capatable with all existing car mods and can be added mid save! Will correctly spawn engine parts in existing vehicles!
  • Sandbox settings for min/max horsepower depending on engine part condition, chance of missing engine parts, etc.
  • All parts have ingame info on what they do. Every part does something!
  • Open or broken windows will result in windchill and reduced effectiveness of the heater/air conditioner depending on vehicle speed. Loss of windshield will result in getting wet if you drive in the rain.

Compatible with KI5, Filibuster and all other car mods!
Can be added mid-save and will work with existing spawned cars!
Not compatible with: Build41 (Please stop asking). NPC vehicles in Week one NPC



Quick Instructions:

Right click on the engine in the mechanic menu and 'inspect engine' to open up the new engine mechanic menu to access all the new parts.
Press V while in a car to access the new dash switch function! Mods can easily add new dashes!

New dashes and new dash features!
Click and hold the ignition key to start the car! Starting attempts take more power with a low condition battery and now draw power with every attempt.


Horsepower, engine quality and engine condition now depends on condition of sparkplugs, pistons, crankshaft, cylinder head. Keep your engine well maintained for maximum power and starting reliability!

Transmissions can be swapped between vehicles for different ratios and gear counts. Transmissions and torque converters will slip when badly worn.

Cooling:
Radiators condition, hood condition, waterpump condition and fanbelt conditin to cooling.
Low headgasket condition causes oil/coolant loss and for the two fluids to mix.
Overheating quickly damages pistons/cylinder head/headgasket/spark plugs. Drive at lower RPM and with less throttle to reduce engine heating. Keep your coolant levels full as well as your radiator, water pump and fan belt in good condition to prevent overheating.


Oil:
Oil matters: Low oil levels or highly contaminated oil (below 30% of fresh engine oil) cause damage to pistons/crank/cylinder head while running. Drain some oil to check oil condition! Motor oil will become used motor oil with time and no longer protect your engine.

Oil filter condition helps reduce how fast oil gets contaminated and turns into used engine oil. Driving without one will result in total loss of engine oil in a few seconds. Badly damaged oil pan will also cause oil loss if you run the engine. Piston/cylinder head/crankshaft condition sets how fast you contaminate and burn oil. Old worn engines will need extra frequent oil changes and top ups.

Car Spawning:
Optionally control how your cars spawn! Exactly what condition range they spawn in, how likely it is to spawn in high, medium or low condition, chance of parts being missing depending on condition (Perfect for 10 year later runs!), survivor vehicle status and if its in a junkyard/traffic jam!




Special Thanks to HXXRTT for providing all the models for the engine parts and dash textures! You rock!

Other mods you need to make this mod better:

Make sure your using Realistic Car Physics with this mod or some of the simulated features won't work!
It fixes many vanilla bugs and provides mods access to how cars handle! Mods can't even change how much horsepower a car has without this mod due to a vanilla bug.


Starlit library! It helps this mod access your current throttle value for more accurate engine heating and fuel usage.

Beefcake Food Overhaul, it makes all foods useful by rebalances a ton of stuff about food in the game with many sandbox options! Also adds a boredom system so you can't just eat the same food over and over in the mid/late game. As the author of this mod I highly recommend you try it out!
Check out Filibuster! Car used with permission for the preview.
Special thanks to xBerkth and Lord Hobotok for providing translations!

Workshop ID: 3564950449
Mod ID: ProjectSummerCar
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Nemesis(Szechuan) 1 hour ago 
Hey @Black_moons I just saw your change notes. Thank you for including/fixing the compatibility with the warthunderlibrary
Black_moons  [author] 2 hours ago 
@Rachel L: Nope, it currently operates only on the engine parts and can be turned off (Defaulty is until further along, use a sandbox options mod to turn it on mid-game) in case other mods like Vehicle Repair overhaul does its own repair system for engine parts.
Rachel L 2 hours ago 
Does the repair system conflicts with other mods that change repairs?
Black_moons  [author] 2 hours ago 
New update out! Beta of the repair system now available in sandbox options, 2 new dashboards, gamepad and war thunder vehicle support.
Inverspe 15 hours ago 
thanks, appreciate you taking your time replying!
Black_moons  [author] 16 hours ago 
@General Kazeeem Will have a little more tooltip for them in the next update.
@Inverspe Yep! both engine condition and quality increase as you put better condition parts in for the main engine parts. 'quality' is more about starting chance now then anything else.
Inverspe 20 hours ago 
regarding engine quality, does it improve when I replace engine parts with higher quality ones?
General Kazeeem 27 Sep @ 2:58pm 
Awesome mod. I know a bit about cars, I fix my own, so this mod wasn't too difficult to understand (not that it would be, the parts are just drag and drop, but still). It's fun being able to upgrade your engine piece by piece.
One thing that DID confuse me, though, with my lack of knowledge, was the transmission parts. I ended up looking it up so I would know what I wanted, but I think it would be nice if you added a short/quick description to the various transmissions and torque converters in the game, explaining the benefits. Mainly, for the low/medium/high stall torque converters, to help players understand the impact of changing their torque converter better (how it will affect car performance). Something simple, like "fastest acceleration, lowest fuel efficiency" for the high stall torque converter, and so on.
Malik-BGR 27 Sep @ 2:13pm 
@Black_moons thanks for the fast reply :spiffo: Adding to my current mod list :steamthumbsup:
Black_moons  [author] 27 Sep @ 1:41pm 
@Malik-BGR Mod confirmed working for B42.12 without issue.
@Inverspe Repairs will be coming in a future version.