Stream will be at twitch.tv/GenJeFT
Stream done! Four more cars today in another two hourish stream.
We’ll probably be doing the last four (or five, if I remember to send GenJeFT mine) tomorrow morning, US Eastern Time - watch this space for announcements.
Really fun to watch.
GenJeFT should be banned from making cars, 'cause that one was UGLY! 
As I said, it was an experiment. I did not plan on it being one of my fastest cars.
And the big 4cyl award goes too
Almost as thirsty as my 3.2l I6.
(Just to give a little bit of lead time on the announcement: we were saying either 10:00 or 11:00 EDT (UTC-04:00) as a start - that would be eleven or twelve hours from the time of this post, plus change.)
Okay, starting soonishly…
Another great review video. FYI my badge is created from the chrome hood latches located in the “vents” menu. Its an “A” for Ankomst, my car company (see my signature below).
Processing now. This video will be up earlier then the last couple (I am not uploading it at 1AM my time for once).
To comment on your question about fps, my laptop (i5-2450m, 2.6GHz, HD3000 graphics) does around 35fps on high settings. This new desktop I built (i7-4790, 3.6GHz, GTX960) only does 45fps. In The Sims 4, the laptop does 80fps in medium settings while the desktop does 140fps on high settings.
The video is uploading as I post this. It will be up in around 2 hours.
I would like to once again thank Killrob for joining us today.
Here is the link.
youtube.com/watch?v=C0U3Or4 … e=youtu.be
As for frame rate. It seems like the game is limited to at best 45FPS right now. But that will be irrelevant because they are switching over to the Unreal engine and that will provide a significant performance boost. I dont have The Sims 4 to do a comparison on that.
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Well, I mostly play strategy/simulator games, so most of my games aren’t very demanding on video cards. TS4 is all I’ve got! I could load up NFS:Shift? Pretty old game, so probably still not very demanding. Oh, and on the desktop, FPS goes as high as 55, but when anything is moving on screen, it drops to 45.
Thanks again to GenJeFT for setting this up - my throat may be sore, but this was a fun exercise to do! Hopefully between the four of us - myself, GenJeFT, Jester, and Killrob - we managed to share some information about building engines and cars in Automation people didn’t know before. 
Thanks from me too! It was really interesting to watch 
Maybe ColbaltGirl can help me out here. I have been trying to figure out period correct tires for the 50’s and up for my car company, but stuff online seems to say 205mm tire width. This seems awfully high, but maybe I am wrong? If anyone knows some standard tire/wheel/rim sizes for each decade or so after 1955 that would be awesome!
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=6341&p=72489&hilit=Tire+sizes#p72489
That is about the best I can do for tire sizes. I’m sure the European world had different methods, but I don’t know what they are. The chart can help you determine what was standard, and some comparable (but not exact) measurements.
This will give you some ideas on tire sizes for specific makes/models, but I’m not sure how useful it might actually be for you as it looks like it only goes back to the early 80s, which means they’re most likely all P-Metric sizes.
EDIT: Helps when you include the link? 
Using modern tire sizes.
195/80-90/15
195/80-90/14
185/80-90/14
175/70-80/13
165/70-90/13
Stuff like that.
Here is a website which goes back further. They have information on the 1955 Bel Air, so it would be safe to assume they have a lot more. I only glanced at a bit here and there before posting it. 670-15 was the tire size which came factory on the Bel Air. It is referenced in the first column of the image in the link I posted above and in another thread on here. Makes the image seem rather inaccurate, however. It lists the physical dimensions of the 670-15 as 170/90-15 while the image suggests it would be 205/75-15 (which does seem a bit wide for the era). Hopefully this website will be useful in your searches.
EDIT: This site also seems to have a lot of information: Tire Size Conversion