[ASSETS] [OPEN SOURCE] Tanks, tracks and N-wheeled vehicles

[siverwolfe]

There is my pivot point. I am assuming that it is wrong.

@BoredEngineer;470282

Regarding the engine. I see that Rolls-Royce Meteor was installed in plenty of different British tanks including Centurion. Which is good as it should be easier to find more detailed data.
There are seam to be a lot of data about Rolls-Royce Merlin aero-engine on which Rolls-Royce Meteor is based. Unfortunately I don’t know how much of the effect is there from removal of supercharger, switching to a different fuel and installing heavier pistons. Perhaps general curve is the same but we still don’t know the peak torque of the engine. From horsepower and max rpm you can only get a single point on the graph. But we need a full horsepower or torque curve. At least a “maximum torque” at some specific rpm can give a point to approximate the rest from. In the project, there are should be several curves for different engine, take a look at them, they are sort of similar but different enough. I’m sure that information is somewhere out there, perhaps on some obscure website about WW2 tanks.

Thank you for the info. I also did a little digging on the Meteor. The most useful info I found about the land-bound version is that it can get up to about 1550ft/lb of torque @1200rpm, but that may be from some aftermarket tinkering. I don’t know how that would be implemented in the engine curve, so I just made a point with an x value of 1200 and a y of 1550, but all that gives me is a constant red-lining.