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1,600 HP 5.0L 90° Hot-V Twin-Turbo V8

1:1 OpenCascade CAD Digital Twin, 6-Zone Cutaways, Volumetric Combustion & Dyno Lab

01 / What Was Built

Interactive, 1:1 metric-accurate 3D mechanical digital twin of a 5.07L (5,065.5 cc, 92.0 × 95.25 mm bore/stroke) 90° "Hot-V" Twin-Turbo Flat-Plane Crank 4-Stroke DOHC 32-Valve Hypercar V8 (1,600 HP @ 8,500 RPM, 9,000 RPM redline, 1,520 Nm, 2.20 bar peak twin-turbo boost). Every rigid mechanical casting, billet rotor, sprocket, and fastener is authored in OpenCascade B-Rep CAD (build123d) from a single shared metric blueprint, baked with Blender 5.2 Cycles Metal GPU 2K AO + Pointiness PBR maps, and driven at 60 Hz in Three.js (0.187.0, WebGL2, HalfFloat MSAA + AgXToneMapping) with clickable cutaway covers, 0–100% coaxial Exploded View, Solo 3D part isolation, raymarched 4-stroke combustion, EGT blackbody header incandescence, and procedural flat-plane WebAudio synthesis.

02 / Creation Pipeline & Workflow

Engineered with Gemini Carbon from a single shared 1:1 metric blueprint across seven OpenCascade B-Rep CAD (build123d) sub-assemblies — billet dyno stand & 6-bolt bedplate, closed-deck 90° V8 block with Nikasil liners, 180° flat-plane crankshaft with forged H-beam conrods & 3-ring pistons, 32V pent-roof DOHC heads with swept helical springs & VVT cam phasers, dual 136-link roller timing chains & 4-stage dry-sump pump, equal-length swept Inconel 625 Hot-V 4-into-1 headers & counter-rotating twin ball-bearing turbos, and 8 gold-anodized ITB velocity stacks with twin liquid-to-air charge coolers — baked with Blender 5.2 Cycles Metal GPU 2K AO + Pointiness PBR maps and driven at 60 Hz in Three.js r187 WebGL2 with 20-step raymarched 4-stroke combustion, Planck EGT blackbody incandescence, and procedural flat-plane WebAudio synthesis.

03 / Scene, Simulation & Optical Highlights

  1. 01Scene & Scale: 1:1 metric motorsport dyno test-cell assembly (0.880 m wide × 0.650 m engine height × 0.790 m core length on a 1.120 × 0.880 m grounded billet dyno cradle; crank centerline at Y = 0.520 m, 100.0 mm bore spacing, 21.0 mm right-bank rearward offset).
  2. 02Live Simulation (60 Hz): Exact tilted-bank slider-crank reciprocating physics across all 8 pistons & forged H-beam rods (1-8-2-7-4-5-3-6 flat-plane firing order at 90° crank intervals), 0.500× quad hollow camshafts actuating 32 canted Ti/Inconel valves + compressing helical springs + DLC buckets, 136-link advancing roller timing chains (21T:42T sprockets), scrolling 6PK serpentine belt, throttle-coupled 8 brass ITB butterflies, and counter-rotating 165,000 RPM twin ball-bearing turbochargers with boost-lag and throttle-lift wastegate flutter.
  3. 03Optics & Rendering: Dedicated HalfFloatType MSAA render target sanitized into a samples: 0 EffectComposer (UnrealBloomPass + lens fringe/vignette + AgXToneMapping), 20-step raymarched 4-stroke volumetric combustion (Intake tumble mist → Compression golden swirl → CDI Spark plasma arc → Power cellular Planck flame → Exhaust scavenging), arc-normalized EGT blackbody incandescence across 4-into-1 Inconel 625 headers & turbine volutes, and Fresnel X-ray Gas Flow streamlines.
  4. 04User Controls: Docked glassmorphic Dyno Control Deck (Throttle / Load 0–100% + Idle / Cruise / Redline presets, Live 60Hz / 4-Stroke Slow-Mo / manual 0°–720° crank-angle scrubber, live 8-cylinder stroke matrix, 0–100% coaxial Exploded View, Gas Flow X-ray, Subsystems color-coding, Rotating Only), top-bar Open All / Close All cutaway switch + Sound: On/Off, direct 3D raycast cover toggling & part picking, Component Inspector Drawer with Solo 3D isolation, and damped OrbitControls.
Three.js r187WebGL2TypeScriptGLSLbuild123d CADBlender 5.2Web Audio API

04 / Element-by-Element Build Breakdown

Asset foundry provenance — CAD, Blender Cycles PBR, 3D-Gen, TSL/GLSL & procedural audio

Dyno Stand, Isolators & 6-Bolt Bedplate
build123d CAD + Blender 5.2 Cycles 2K PBR

Grounded billet motorsport dyno cradle, Viton isolators, rear water-brake coupling, and cross-bolted main bearing bedplate girdle

Closed-Deck 90° V8 Block & Nikasil Liners
build123d CAD + Blender 5.2 Cycles 2K PBR

Sectioned A356 sand-cast aluminum V8 block, coolant jackets, dark plateau-honed 92.0 mm Nikasil cylinder liners (albedo <= 0.030), and Zone 2 cutaway block windows

180° Flat-Plane Crank, Rods, Pistons & Clutch
build123d CAD + Blender 5.2 Cycles 2K PBR

Billet 180° flat-plane crankshaft, front harmonic damper, 8 forged H-beam conrods, 8 3-ring slipper pistons with DLC wrist pins, starter ring-gear flywheel & 3-plate carbon clutch

32V Pent-Roof DOHC Heads, Cams & Valvetrain
build123d CAD + Swept Helical Springs + 2K PBR

Sectioned 32V pent-roof heads, 4 hollow billet cams (with tappet inspection window), 32 Ti/Inconel valves, 32 seated beehive springs, DLC buckets, 8 COP igniters, red billet fuel rails & carbon cam covers (Zone 1)

Dual-Bank Roller Timing Drive, Dry-Sump & Aux
build123d CAD + Runtime InstancedMesh + 2K PBR

Exact 21T:42T B-Rep roller sprockets, 4 VVT cam phasers, curved phenolic guides, 2 × 136 instanced figure-8 chain links, 4-stage dry-sump scavenge pump, braided AN lines, alternator, 6PK belt, timing cover (Zone 3) & finned sump pan (Zone 6)

Hot-V 4-into-1 Inconel Headers & Twin Turbos
build123d CAD + Parallel-Transport Sweeps + 2K PBR

Equal-length swept Inconel 625 4-into-1 valley headers, counter-rotating ball-bearing turbos (11-blade billet compressor / 9-blade Mar-M247 turbine), wastegates, V-bands, pie-cut Ti downpipes, and sectioned volute caps + woven gold blankets (Zone 5)

Outboard 8-Stack ITBs, Charge Coolers & Plenums
build123d CAD + Perimeter Twill UVs + 2K PBR

8 gold-anodized flared velocity stacks, 8 throttle-coupled brass ITB butterflies, angled fuel injectors, twin liquid-to-air finned charge coolers, silicone couplers, and hollow 2×2 carbon airboxes (Zone 4)

4-Stroke Combustion, EGT Blackbody & Streamlines
Custom GLSL Volumetric & Surface Shaders

20-step raymarched cylinder combustion + CDI spark plasma, pre-AgX Planck header/volute incandescence, and duct-contained boost/exhaust ribbons

Studio Cyclorama & Multi-Point Rim Lighting
CC0 2K HDRI + Three.js Studio Rig

Poly Haven 2K studio HDRI PMREM environment paired with key, rim, fill, rear titanium accent, and dynamic Hot-V valley thermal point lights

Flat-Plane V8 Dyno Synth & Telemetry HUD
Procedural Web Audio API + TypeScript DOM

Firing-order-coupled flat-plane exhaust pulse synth, DOHC valvetrain mechanical whir, twin-turbo whine & blow-off flutter, plus corridor-safe dyno telemetry HUD

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