Satsuma 210 '58
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Satsuma 210 '58 for BeamNG.drive

I proudly present you the result of three months of work, the 1958 Satsuma 210, modeled after the '58-59 Datsun 1000 L210 with some changes to avoid copyright issues. This has been a single man project, so everything apart from wheels is modeled, jbeamed and textured fom scratch by me. 

The car has correct dimensions and specs and the model is very accurate considering the facts that all the available blueprints are of poor quality and I've never seen one "in flesh". I learned a lot about modeling, jbeaming and texturing making this car and sometimes wanted to give up when it got really frustrating. But here it is, ready for releasing.

So, here are some specs about the Satsuma:

The beautiful all steel body has four doors and it has many styling cues from the English cars of the era. There are two trim levels, base and Deluxe. The base has single tone interior, rubber window trims and all the basic equipment for driving the car. The Deluxe has two-tone interior, more chrome trim and some "luxury" accessories of the era, such as a radio, a clock and door arm rests. The body and front sheet metal parts can detach from the frame, if you get hit by a truck or hit into obstacle at high speed.

You can open the hood by pressing "F", trunk lid by pressing "O" and turn on/off the dome light by pressing "V"

The dashboard has all animated accurate gauges and few animated switches. The gauge cluster and clock and radio faces are all illuminated.

The frame is of strong fully boxed design, very uncommon in small cars of the 50's.

The front suspension has reverse-Elliot I-beam axle with leaf springs, telescopic shocks and anti-roll bar.

The rear suspension has live axle with leaf springs, telescopic shocks and anti-roll bar. There are three available axle ratios: the stock 5.13, the optional 5.57 and the custom 4.625 for higher top speed.

The front suspension design is very old fashioned and fell out of favor in passenger cars before the WW 2. The addition of anti-roll bars kept the Satsuma suspension up with the competition for over a decade. Despite that, the Satsuma is fun and stabile to drive and with grippier tires it will be very fast around corners.

The tires are very skinny 5.00-15 size bias ply tires on the 4x15 wheels. They have poor grip and if you are going to have a track day, you can change them to any 5-lug wheels and tires available in the game 

The braking system has 10'' drum brake at every corner and the parking brake lever is located between the front seat and the driver's door. There is no power assist of any kind.

There are two choices of engines: the 34hp 988cc and 48hp 1189cc OHV inline fours. Both engines are equipped with single barrel carburetor and they are identical apart from their displacement.

There are also two choices of transmissions: the stock 4-speed column shift and optional wide ratio 4-speed column shift. The wide ratio is most likely meant for mountainous areas since its 1st and reverse gears are so short. 

There are 15 realistic body colors to choose from and 4 special interior colors. The body uses the first color palette, roof second and interior 3rd palette.

The Satsuma has support for skins. The 4k .png template is in the satsuma210 folder. I hope it is good enough for making skins.

Long term plans, Things to add:
-Wagon, pickup and van versions like the real life counterpart has
-Custom convertible with folding roof like Mythbuster's '49 Cadillac has
-More powerful engine options
-Automatic transmission (the Datsun didn't have it IRL but some people still want it)
-Realistic 6-lug wheels
-Aftermarket tachometer
-Working odometer, if it's possible

Known Bugs:
-The body has some vibrating parts (self collision issues) after crash
-The radiator is indestructible
- The front axle shimmies under hard braking with grippy tires or going over bigger bumps. It looks very similar to the "Death Wobble" condition in Jeeps and similar 4x4's:D
-The rear axle has lots of axle wrap when reversing
-Some dodgy reflections around the wheel arches and in c-pillars
-The vanilla steering wheels are out of place, will be fixed soon.

Installation: Just drop the .zip into Documents/BeamNG.drive/mods -folder

This mod is made for game version 0.8.0 and up. It will not work in older versions.

Please clear the cache before complaining about problems with the mod. If the problem presists, you're welcome to report it in discussion tab.

This mod is the result of my hard work, so please ask for permission, if you want to use any parts for your own mods.

https://beamng.com/resources/satsuma-210-58.2009/

Credits: mike94

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