Revving: Engine Simulator

Turn the key, feel the starter catch, and bring an engine to its redline. Revving is an engine simulator you drive: every sound it makes is computed live from the physics of the engine turning in front of you.

Real physics, real sound

• Every engine is simulated in real time: pistons, connecting rods, crankshafts, cams and valves, gas flowing through intake and exhaust, fuel burning in each cylinder.

• The sound is synthesized from the simulated exhaust pulses, so it changes with everything you do: throttle, load, gear, rpm, the rev limiter cutting in, VTEC crossing over.

• Each engine drives what it really drove, car, motorcycle, aircraft or locomotive, with its gearing, weight, aerodynamics, redline, rev limiter and top speed.

Drive it yourself

• Switch on the ignition and hold the starter until the engine fires.

• Clutch, brake and gas; an H-pattern lever through the gate. Forget the clutch and the gears grind.

• Or shift up and down sequentially, or let the automatic do it.

• Stall it, bog it, bounce it off the limiter, launch it: the engine answers like the real one.

• Keyboard, mouse or gamepad: analogue triggers for gas and brake, the right stick for the lever.

Watch it run

• The engine is drawn in 3D, turning in step with what you hear: pistons, crank, cams, valve springs, headers.

• Point at any part to see its name.

• Coded colours show the intake and exhaust flow at a glance.

• A driving-game HUD: rev counter with shift lights, a speedometer scaled to the vehicle, live charts of manifold pressure, air flow and air/fuel ratio, plus VTEC and limiter lamps.

• A full gauge cluster, with a firing lamp for every cylinder.

19 engines, every layout

• Honda B18C5 inline-4, VTEC to 8,400 rpm, in an Integra Type R (free)

• Chevrolet 454 big-block V8, in a 1978 C20 pickup (free)

• Subaru EJ25 flat-4, in an Impreza WRX STI

• Harley-Davidson Shovelhead V-twin, in an Electra Glide

• Audi inline-5, in a Coupe quattro 20V

• Toyota 2JZ inline-6, in a Supra

• GM LS V8, in a C5 Corvette

• Ferrari F136 V8, the flat-plane scream to 9,000 rpm, in a 458 Italia

• Lexus LFA V10, to 9,000 rpm

• Ferrari 412 T2 V12, a 1995 Formula 1 engine that revs to 17,000 rpm

• Radial 5 and Radial 9 aero engines, on a propeller

• Ariel Square Four: two twins geared together, in the 1950s motorcycle

• Volkswagen VR6, in a Golf VR6, and the W12 made of two of them, in a Phaeton

• BRM H16: two flat-eights geared together, in the 1966 P83 Formula 1 car

• Rolls-Royce Vulture X24, on an Avro Manchester's propeller

• Junkers Jumo 205, an opposed-piston two-stroke diesel aero engine

• Napier Deltic: eighteen cylinders in a triangle, as in the British Rail Class 55

The Honda and the Chevrolet 454 are free. The Every Engine DLC unlocks the other seventeen.

Settings

• Audio quality from Low to Ultra: more detail in the simulation for more detail in the sound, as far as your CPU allows. A load meter shows how hard it works.

• Graphics from Low to High, with worn metal, shadows and smooth edges at the top.

• 75 languages, and metric or imperial units.

Headphones recommended.

Engine simulation ported from Engine Simulator by Ange Yaghi (AngeTheGreat), MIT licence.

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