Ange Yaghi: Simulating an entire car engine (youtube.com)

This reminds me a lot of the engine simulators people would make in the sandbox gamemode for Garry's Mod. When I was first getting into coding I used the Expression 2 programming language (basically a scripting language implemented in the Lua sandbox for GMod) and this kind of thing was somewhat common. Here's an example of an engine that someone else made (the code is in the video description): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktbu4gomOjA