I have quite a bit of trouble keeping all of my Engines and cars organized, does anyone have any actual parameters by which they name their engines and or cars?
(IE Civic DX,EX,LX or 8L DOHC V8 TTC I etc)
Just curious to see other ways people may do naming.
For me it’s simple.
Engines:
First letter is the type of an top end (D - Dual-Overhead, S - Single-Overhead)
Second number is how many cylinders it has
Third and fourth numbers are displacement (18 = 1.8, 20 = 2.0 etc)
Fifth number is the amount of valves per cylinder (1 - 2 valves, 2 - 4 valves, 3 - 5 valves)
Last bit is injection type. (C - carburetor, DFI - Direct Fuel Injection)
If the engine is not street legal, I add R at the end.
If the engine is a V-shaped engine, I add V after first letter, and f it’s a Boxer, then I add B to the same spot
Example - D4183DFI - Inline 4, Dual-Overhead, 20 valves, Direct Fuel Injection.
I’ve just started my car company and at the moment I’m useing engine family names, for instance my v8 is in the Titan family, from there I’ve split into normal production run and special option trees, Titan A and Titan B. Each revision gets a number tag so my first was Titan A1, then Titan A2 with the option engine as titan B1 once my game year gets to the 60’s I think I might start multiple branches of head design. The push rod would be for example, Titan A5p and direct ohc would be Titan A5d, same block version and revision but different cam system.
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I’ve start to use recently set up a rule for engines name.
For example let’s take this engine:
L486Q-S3S ‘89
First letter it’s the cylinder position. L= Inline
Second number is the cylinder number. 4 = 4 cylinder
Third and fourth are cylinders bores. 86 = 86 mm
The fifth case it’s the stroke indication (in Italian for me) Q = Quadro = Square. It means that the stroke it’s very close (if not the same) of the bore.
In this way I have also an rough indication of the engine size, how much are stressed the pistons and the pistons rod, so if I can squeeze out of it more power or not.
For example I know that the L486SL (SL = super long) cannot redline too high or it will kill the reliability, so I’ll probably take the Q and pump up the head. A SL engine it’s probably a space saver engine.
After the dash there are some specs about the evolution of the engine, but this can vary a lot.
In this case we have a SOCH 3valve with SPFI. It’s a 1989 engine. Probably the base engine was an OHV or a DAOHC.
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The Blue Marlin Motor Company, as ex-motorboat company, started with the Blue Marlin (the fastest creature on earth) and later on developed a wider range of cars. All the cars have nautical-related names like:
Goldfish (B-class hatchback RR layout)
Salmon (C-Class hatchback FR layout)
Dolphine (D-class 3 box FR layout)
Narwhal (E-Class 3 box FR layout)
On the same platform the BMMC build also coupes so we have:
Flying Fish (based on the B-class RR layout)
Blue Marlin (based on the E-class FR)
Sea hunters names are used for the MR coupe:
Shark (big MR)
Murena (medim MR)
The Žnoprešk had a different story. It started at the end of the first world war using the following rule
Z2019
Z (for Žnoprešk), engine size (20 = 2.0 liter), launch year (1919).
This names hold until the end the end of the ’50. In the ’60 they started to use the following rule
Z110
Z (for Žnoprešk), model size (1 = B class), engine size (10 = 1.0 liter).
In the middle of the ’70, after the BMMC takeover they have start to develop a specific nomenclature for the models. The first one was the Zap, later on others Z names followed like:
Zy (A-class RR hatchback)
Zap (B-class RR hatchback)
Zest (C-class FR semi-hatchback)
Zenit (D-class FR 3 box)
Zephir (E-class FR 3 box)
The bigger the car is, the longest the name is (at least for the “regular cars”). There are some exception, as for the 4x4 off-road called Zanzibar.
I follow a pretty simple “code” at the current moment; plan on remaking my engines after the next update, but for now this is what I do-
Inline 4 engine= “Z”
Inline 6 engine- “A”
V8 engine- “H”
If displacement is between 3.3L and 4.9L, add a “2.”, followed by the liter number.
If displacement is below 3.3L, add a “1.”, followed by the liter number.
If displacement is above 5.0L, add a “3.”, followed by the liter number.
If using Multi-point fuel injection, add a “M”
If using Direct Injection, add a “D”
Then add valve number at the end.
So if I have a 4.3L V8 with direct injection and 24 valves, I will have “H2.43D24”
2.7L I6 with multi and 18 valves would be “A1.27M18”