For those of you who can't go into reverse. Try adding 15 additional degrees of advance. Then try again. A good rule of thumb is to add as many degrees of advance as you can before it starts to turn the engine in reverse while going forward. If you manage to tune it like that. Reversing will be as easy as pressing the accelerator before starting the engine.
Alstrak you know you don’t need to disconnect from gas engine so you can just leave it not unlike electric engine have able to stay in place but the gas engine it not able to do that so it able to move not likely to electric engine?..
I had some trouble building the engine. I posted here. Within a few minutes Alstrak was kind enough to respond. Then, he came to my scrap mechanic world and spent 2-1/2 hours helping me to fix and complete the perfect piston car. What a wonderful fellow he is. Thank you, Alstrak.❤❤❤
@@apexalaska I believe I read that the developer confirmed there is currently no way to automate oil. However, it does look like there is a strong possibility they will add it later. They added the ability to pump chemicals the first few days, and the vacuum pump can plant seeds and harvest crops, so the ability is there.
Alstrak: "yes a motor, engines convert chemical energy to rotational energy, while motors convert any energy to rotational energy" also Alstrak: "piston engine"
@@AI-Idiot technically the chemical energy is turned into linear energy wich is converted to rotational energy so technically by his definition even the gas motor isn't an engine
I've build the 4 piston version and this is the smoothest fast running piston engine I've driven yet, great step by set build tutorial as well nice and clear instructions so you hardly can make any mistake. I do recommend as well as what you have said to someone else for the reverse problem, add another 15 degrees going to 75 from 60 to make reverse more reliable.
If anything, this shows that oil is too hard to come by and at least needs a way to be auto farmed, and/or gas consumption in vehicles are waaaaay too high. Also, nobody is going to use electric engines until you can recharge batteries.
this is why I was telling a friend of mine while we play that there's needs to be an oil pump that you can place near or on the oil vent to pump out oil. ^_^
Great tutorial, one issue I had was getting into reverse. After mounting the vehicle on a stand and adjusting the timing wheel. I had to remove one of the blocks in the bottom left to get it to function in both forward and reverse. So my timing wheel formed a T (3 and 1) instead of being a 3 and 2.
If you couldn't get into reverse then you could add 15 more degrees of advancing. This should fix the issue and you might be able to go even faster. :)
I found I had a hard time getting the same level of speed as you seem to have in the video. Turning the angle of the timing wheel to positive 15 degrees seemed to result in the fastest forward speed, but it also made it so that the direction it went from a stop was somewhat of a crapshoot. Still, neat engine. Going to play with it a bit and see what I can do to get as much speed and power as possible.
I cant believe how well this works. I have built a 4 piston engine with a 1:2 gear ratio, and it has about 10 times less speed and it cant even pull that much weight. If i took all the benefits from this design, i could put together something really good, which i will do.
This is an incredible build. It's very effective. I couldn't get it's upgrade to work. It just complicated the system and left me fighting against the machine too often. I'm sure there's a fix for it but adjusting the controller didn't seem to work. Might have been because of the different weight or something, not sure. But I love it.
I made a piston driven tractor with an open differential that can mechanically lock if extra traction is needed. I made it in creative using gear mods, but I think it could be modified to use vanilla parts for survival.
Since I've been using this I've just been adding more pistons and more sets of wheels everytime I need to increase my load capacity. Right now I can easily carry up to 22 food crates on my truck up the hill to the farmers shop
The timing is on the outside for a reason. If you put it between the wheels you won't be able to get the efficiency aspect of it because you can't adjust the timing wheel that way.
Wow okay I love this! I'm still just starting so pistons and stuff is not things I've invested into but yea I'm gonna try to work on them even more seeing this.
Have the kan engine for my miner that's going to look like a Prius this will probably be a looter or explorer build use for me but I like how simple this flat / boxer engine is
Ay finally I built kans piston engine but I feel like yours is better I’m going to build this one I think Edit for some reason when I tore down my old engine I lost two of my maxed pistons so that sucks
Facinating. I really don't understand logic gates other than the and & Or commands, but i can see this is far faster than my original idea of a four to six cylinder inline with a large flywheel.
@@Alstrak I know... but still for some reason. I usually go to the spawn because there is many of them, at least I think so. Last time I was going there I got 14 :P
I got a tip for the steering problem. when you get lvl.5 seat or saddle you can change the turning thing and after the upgrade i could steer really good.
I have made engines just as long as you have and this is by far the fastest compact engine i have ever seen! i have made some fast engines but compared to this it is child play! nice engine!
I would like to see a heavy underwater car with a stabilized cockpit that can quickly piston the seat straight up to the surface for air. Gotta co collect that oil!
I think I can marry this design to a simple gear transmission I've been working on. I've been running if off a controller, but I think it could really use this better power source.
The reverse didn't really work for me (even with adding more degrees), so here's what I did instead: 1: Insert another bearing between the big wheel and the sensors, making sure both the sensors and the blocks attached are now attached to the bearing 2: Put down another controller, connect it to the bearing, and set it to -90 degrees (not the start position, the one after that) 3: Add a third button and connect it to the controller and seat That seems to work just fine. It takes a while to move, but so does the original design so I don't think it's that bad, and it works much better. Edit: Actually it's working now so I don't think you have to do this
Awesome design and great tutorial! I feel like the video was a bit long though. You could definitely cut out all the pauses between you talking except where there's important construction happening. There's already enough video of you driving that those pauses in voice while you drive are unnecessary. Also, a written parts list would be nice for those of us who want to screenshot or throw it up on a 2nd monitor while we farm the materials needed.
You can use 2 max controllers ,a bunch of barrings set them to loop on max , connect the controller to your seat , make your car heavy and boom you have no fuel usage
The accelerator for me is backwards oddly, off means more speed, on means less. Granted this is still nice to have, and it's more compact than the one i built before by kAN Gaming. and the 4 piston version will help alot with a mobile base or harvest machines. Can the Piston Engine be used for drills too or just wheels?
I've done the 4 piston engine, and it keeps on catching, making it so that I can't get much momentum, how do I fix this? Also, I'm building it in creative first to test it, could this be the problem? is the problem just gone in survival? Any help would be appreciated :) .
I dont know what i am doing wrong i have 4 pistons maxed out and this thing will not move forward for me. I put this thing together several times exactly like the video. This pistons start moving then they stop. It moves more when accelorator switch is off.
If you add a second set of rear tires that come down with the gas engine powering them you can simply switch it to gas mode by lifting the rear to the new wheels
How you make that welding? I tried everything, but it doesn't work than way. It always weld a whole vehicle to some piece, not a small parts with each other. Oh I get it. It should be on lift. Never guessed.
i just wanted to say that if your haveing problems with the desine and it isnt as relebol as a gas engine just add two heavy blocks to the opisit end of the to noodle pessest that connect to the axle
dude you can get the same result from adding a bearing inside the wheels and connect the gas engine to them they will lock up when not running the engine allowing the pistons to carry the rotation.
We have a lake nearby which is full of oil. But its takes me 1 horrible hour+ to farm enough oil to not care about it for the next hours... Time to switch! I don't want to waste more time on oil.
Can you take the 4 piston set-up but remove the center of the rear axle? Just extend the subframe through the center, make the single axle a dual axle, and the 4 piston motor becomes two 2 piston motors? It wouldn't quite be a differential but might allow different speeds at the different wheels? I haven't played this game. If it worked, though, you could repeat for the front and make it all wheel drive... When looking at a hybrid setup, can you just add an extra set of wheels that aren't connected to the axle that just roll when not powered? Guess I could just play the game and find out
thats the cheapest parts on the list. for my heavy hauler i just put a springglitch on each wheel,set to 26 and then connected controller to seat. downside is no brakes tho. yeah i was lazy :P
i cant seem to get this one to work.. i added a total of (5) small pipes on both side to extend the axle...not sure if this is the cause of the problem....still have the two set at 90 / -15 / -60 ..so not sure what im doing wrong.
I loved your tutorial, but I have made an error somewhere that I can not find. (I am a 71 yr old woman so not too mechanical, LOL). The piston closest to the flywheel goes around ok logic gate flashing on and off but the other piston puffs steam and logic gates lights up steady and doesn't rotate. I made sure all is welded, checked the controller and piston settings but I can't get it to work. Any suggestions?
I can’t seem to go into reverse and my car will drive forward when only the button on the logic gates are on. Can anyone help? Edit: Nvm turns out I forgot to turn the timing bearing connected to the controller XD classic me.
I think I followed the directions carefully. However when I hit the on switch, the car actually accelerates as if I hit the accelerator switch. What am I doing wrong?
I have to keep hit 1 on and off to get the engine moving, I have built it 4 times following your guide exactly and still it wont work. what am I missing?
For some odd reason, my right wheel and bearing will not connect to the frame. And also I couldn’t get the 4 piston one to work. All the pistons would work, then proceed to fight against each other. I’ve tried 60,75, & 90 degrees of timing. None worked so I settled with the 2 piston
5:43 does both bearings connect to the wood blocks when you click and drag like that? I thought you had to place the two blocks individually on the bearings?
The devs made that possible at some point. If you attach anything close to either a bearing or a piston it will automatically attach to them instead. Even if you are pointing to another block.
The best car for survival (in my opinion) would be a car with both piston and gas powers (and maybe even with transmission to increase fuel efficiency)
@@Alstrak I did that. Didn't work. I keep adding advance and it never goes into reverse, it just stops working. To be fair though, I did modify your design a little. I put the distributor on the inside of the tire instead of the outside. But it is still exactly as you built it.
Alright I tried out this build in creative mode and some reason 1 my bearings connected to the controller showed the connections upright instead of down like in the video. im not sure how to change this or if its the issue. second if I try to make a 4 piston engine it seems to not work at all even if I mess around with the 2nd connection a lot. im not sure what im doing wrong here or how to fix it if I have these issues. the 2 piston engine seems to work for the most part though.
For those of you who can't go into reverse. Try adding 15 additional degrees of advance. Then try again. A good rule of thumb is to add as many degrees of advance as you can before it starts to turn the engine in reverse while going forward. If you manage to tune it like that. Reversing will be as easy as pressing the accelerator before starting the engine.
15 Additional degree add at 2nd?
Alstrak you know you don’t need to disconnect from gas engine so you can just leave it not unlike electric engine have able to stay in place but the gas engine it not able to do that so it able to move not likely to electric engine?..
RUclipsrs: make piston engines for unlimited fuel
Me: hold my maxed controller
Check out my latest video to see what i mean
@@jacobdestroyah2120 I laughed too hard on that one. :D
@@Alstrak XD
I had some trouble building the engine. I posted here. Within a few minutes Alstrak was kind enough to respond. Then, he came to my scrap mechanic world and spent 2-1/2 hours helping me to fix and complete the perfect piston car. What a wonderful fellow he is. Thank you, Alstrak.❤❤❤
After 2 hours spent farming oil, I’m sold on this design type.
Hopefully they give you the ability to put pumps on oil nodes. It's a pain.
I'm really curious whether a vaccum pump would work. Or if it would just suck water. It would probably just suck up water.
@@apexalaska I believe I read that the developer confirmed there is currently no way to automate oil. However, it does look like there is a strong possibility they will add it later. They added the ability to pump chemicals the first few days, and the vacuum pump can plant seeds and harvest crops, so the ability is there.
With the oil ponds update you can suck oil with a vacuum pump
Alstrak: "yes a motor, engines convert chemical energy to rotational energy, while motors convert any energy to rotational energy"
also Alstrak: "piston engine"
The piston engines convert linear energy into rotational energy
shh, it’s a secret
@@AI-Idiot Batteries are stored energy, being converted to rotational energy...
"If it's already broke, don't fix it"
@@AI-Idiot technically the chemical energy is turned into linear energy wich is converted to rotational energy so technically by his definition even the gas motor isn't an engine
I've build the 4 piston version and this is the smoothest fast running piston engine I've driven yet, great step by set build tutorial as well nice and clear instructions so you hardly can make any mistake. I do recommend as well as what you have said to someone else for the reverse problem, add another 15 degrees going to 75 from 60 to make reverse more reliable.
Just so i can know, how is the torque on it? I was thinking of making a big heavy rv with this but im worried the engine wont have enough torque
"Best Design"
is asymmetrical
x doubt.
If anything, this shows that oil is too hard to come by and at least needs a way to be auto farmed, and/or gas consumption in vehicles are waaaaay too high.
Also, nobody is going to use electric engines until you can recharge batteries.
I agree
They could have make it so that you can get bio-diesel from one of the crops you farmed.
reasons most of us have edited oil in the configs somehow - or added "biodiesel" as a crafting recipe
this is why I was telling a friend of mine while we play that there's needs to be an oil pump that you can place near or on the oil vent to pump out oil. ^_^
Scoop that’s what I tought when I built an electric motor, I was like but dude battery are literally more rare than gas
I too, have been using pistons before they got released
thruster engine gang
@@portza6363 Og Thruster engine gang
I wish these small youtubers had more attention and more peaples watching!
Great tutorial, one issue I had was getting into reverse. After mounting the vehicle on a stand and adjusting the timing wheel. I had to remove one of the blocks in the bottom left to get it to function in both forward and reverse. So my timing wheel formed a T (3 and 1) instead of being a 3 and 2.
If you couldn't get into reverse then you could add 15 more degrees of advancing. This should fix the issue and you might be able to go even faster. :)
I found I had a hard time getting the same level of speed as you seem to have in the video. Turning the angle of the timing wheel to positive 15 degrees seemed to result in the fastest forward speed, but it also made it so that the direction it went from a stop was somewhat of a crapshoot.
Still, neat engine. Going to play with it a bit and see what I can do to get as much speed and power as possible.
Amazing video. Very clear, calm, well explained and demonstrated.
Thank-you
I cant believe how well this works. I have built a 4 piston engine with a 1:2 gear ratio, and it has about 10 times less speed and it cant even pull that much weight. If i took all the benefits from this design, i could put together something really good, which i will do.
Flat four, mid engine, rear wheel drive, My man that looks like a Porshe Cayman.
flat two
@@urmomgay0166 In the end of the video he makes a flat four version, and technically the first one is a horizontal inline 2.
This is an incredible build. It's very effective. I couldn't get it's upgrade to work. It just complicated the system and left me fighting against the machine too often. I'm sure there's a fix for it but adjusting the controller didn't seem to work. Might have been because of the different weight or something, not sure. But I love it.
this guy made so much quality content, I wish he made more videos
I made a piston driven tractor with an open differential that can mechanically lock if extra traction is needed.
I made it in creative using gear mods, but I think it could be modified to use vanilla parts for survival.
Since I've been using this I've just been adding more pistons and more sets of wheels everytime I need to increase my load capacity. Right now I can easily carry up to 22 food crates on my truck up the hill to the farmers shop
If you put timing in between the wheels (timing part is 2 blocks wide, and there is enough space) you can make the
design very small!!
The timing is on the outside for a reason. If you put it between the wheels you won't be able to get the efficiency aspect of it because you can't adjust the timing wheel that way.
Man you're pretty smart for figuring this stuff out
You could hook up the piston engine to a cogwheel system using wedges, then attach saws or drills to it, then you could power multiple at once
You can but it gets complicated real quick. :)
Wow okay I love this! I'm still just starting so pistons and stuff is not things I've invested into but yea I'm gonna try to work on them even more seeing this.
Have the kan engine for my miner that's going to look like a Prius this will probably be a looter or explorer build use for me but I like how simple this flat / boxer engine is
Dude, that's so good! I've never attempted a piston engine, but I may have to give this one a try!
Wonderful tutorial, thank you Alstrak
3:42 If you want to go straight to the tutorial
I forgot to put a timestamp. I will add it to the description. :)
Ay finally I built kans piston engine but I feel like yours is better I’m going to build this one I think
Edit for some reason when I tore down my old engine I lost two of my maxed pistons so that sucks
exactly
i think kans engine is better
Yknow how bearings, suspentions and pistons disapear when you remove the block they attached to. Remove those 3 first then all blocks
Sam Holt k thx!
Facinating. I really don't understand logic gates other than the and & Or commands, but i can see this is far faster than my original idea of a four to six cylinder inline with a large flywheel.
Hey this is a really nice video, well made tutorial and I love the added touch of technical terms.
WOW dude nice editing. BEST SCRAP MECHANIC CHANNEL OUT THERE
this guy is literally the scrap mechanic equivalent of mumbo jumbo, but with livetreams
@RarePilot yeah but it's kinda hard to put into words, like he's better, but in a specific way that I just can't seem to fathom
"It's cheap"
" *...You will need 18 Component kits* "
You can get them easily from crates. :)
@@Alstrak I know... but still for some reason. I usually go to the spawn because there is many of them, at least I think so. Last time I was going there I got 14 :P
CharTee _ it is cheap
Dunno how everyone always gets so many... I'll do that same spawn run and come back with 6. I get more from haybots than loot chests.
@@giin97 same
I got a tip for the steering problem. when you get lvl.5 seat or saddle you can change the turning thing and after the upgrade i could steer really good.
I have made engines just as long as you have and this is by far the fastest compact engine i have ever seen! i have made some fast engines but compared to this it is child play! nice engine!
Clear.fast.not bs stuff about asking for like or subs at the intro .. i luv it 💪
i messed around with the main idea of this engine and i made one that only uses 1 piston
thank you for the design i will now go make an extremely complicated driveshaft because i like overcomplicating everything
Lol, i love how this is like the comectals that are like, Have you been tired of bla bla bla bla ...
Exactly liked the comectals 🤣
Commercials*
I would like to see a heavy underwater car with a stabilized cockpit that can quickly piston the seat straight up to the surface for air. Gotta co collect that oil!
I think I can marry this design to a simple gear transmission I've been working on. I've been running if off a controller, but I think it could really use this better power source.
The reverse didn't really work for me (even with adding more degrees), so here's what I did instead:
1: Insert another bearing between the big wheel and the sensors, making sure both the sensors and the blocks attached are now attached to the bearing
2: Put down another controller, connect it to the bearing, and set it to -90 degrees (not the start position, the one after that)
3: Add a third button and connect it to the controller and seat
That seems to work just fine. It takes a while to move, but so does the original design so I don't think it's that bad, and it works much better.
Edit: Actually it's working now so I don't think you have to do this
nice design, everyone make sure if you make this in creative mode you set your sensors to one really screwed me up at first
This’s wat happens when the builder out smart the game.
About that hybrid bit, maybe we could put the output of the piston engine on pistons to extend with the press of a button into a set of gears?
is there any change u would do a video on ball joint steering attached to this piston engine ?
if you hook this engine up to a rear axle and a differential(which is surprising easy) you can easily fix the bad steering issue
Awesome design and great tutorial!
I feel like the video was a bit long though. You could definitely cut out all the pauses between you talking except where there's important construction happening. There's already enough video of you driving that those pauses in voice while you drive are unnecessary.
Also, a written parts list would be nice for those of us who want to screenshot or throw it up on a 2nd monitor while we farm the materials needed.
You can use 2 max controllers ,a bunch of barrings set them to loop on max , connect the controller to your seat , make your car heavy and boom you have no fuel usage
wow... you've been making piston engines for a long time... nice job
The accelerator for me is backwards oddly, off means more speed, on means less. Granted this is still nice to have, and it's more compact than the one i built before by kAN Gaming.
and the 4 piston version will help alot with a mobile base or harvest machines. Can the Piston Engine be used for drills too or just wheels?
Me, who carries atleast 60 spare gas, clogging up my inventory: ahahah yes bring the car back on a lift so relatable.
I've done the 4 piston engine, and it keeps on catching, making it so that I can't get much momentum, how do I fix this? Also, I'm building it in creative first to test it, could this be the problem? is the problem just gone in survival? Any help would be appreciated :) .
perhaps shortening your wheel base and adding large wheels to the front will improve steering
I dont know what i am doing wrong i have 4 pistons maxed out and this thing will not move forward for me. I put this thing together several times exactly like the video. This pistons start moving then they stop. It moves more when accelorator switch is off.
If you add a second set of rear tires that come down with the gas engine powering them you can simply switch it to gas mode by lifting the rear to the new wheels
next, piston car with suspension so it's not so bouncy and flippy overy.. ;)
How you make that welding? I tried everything, but it doesn't work than way. It always weld a whole vehicle to some piece, not a small parts with each other. Oh I get it. It should be on lift. Never guessed.
my dude your FOV is insane
Definitely isn't the best piston engine like the title suggests but it's extremely cheap and still works so that's a thumbs up!
i just wanted to say that if your haveing problems with the desine and it isnt as relebol as a gas engine just add two heavy blocks to the opisit end of the to noodle pessest that connect to the axle
dude you can get the same result from adding a bearing inside the wheels and connect the gas engine to them they will lock up when not running the engine allowing the pistons to carry the rotation.
ok so i use only 1 button to use w for forward? like you left that part a bit faded like 1 button and i switch to turn on or both have tobe buttons?
You can add a button instead of the first switch. That way you can accelerate by holding the button, similar like an accelerator.
Just the first 1 (accelerator) can be a button the other needs to be a switch so it can toggle forward and reverse
To fasten the engine is a dual gear, (ratio of 1:1 above is 5:1 connected to rear gear 1:1 to give a big power)
If I put the accelerator past 15 degrees the engine goes in reverse and it will occasionally reverse temporary how could I fix this?
Give the dafault position negative 30-45 degrees and add 15-30 to the accelerator position.
Thank you so much
We have a lake nearby which is full of oil. But its takes me 1 horrible hour+ to farm enough oil to not care about it for the next hours... Time to switch! I don't want to waste more time on oil.
Had a real rough time - but all setup! damn that's fun
thanks for the piston engine, Alstrak! I love your work:D
Thank you!
Can you take the 4 piston set-up but remove the center of the rear axle? Just extend the subframe through the center, make the single axle a dual axle, and the 4 piston motor becomes two 2 piston motors? It wouldn't quite be a differential but might allow different speeds at the different wheels? I haven't played this game. If it worked, though, you could repeat for the front and make it all wheel drive... When looking at a hybrid setup, can you just add an extra set of wheels that aren't connected to the axle that just roll when not powered? Guess I could just play the game and find out
Thank you for this tutorial. Is there a way to reset the contraption after you built 2 piston version to line up for 4 piston upgrade?
No need. Just add the additional stuff and you should be good. :)
This video can stop pollution.
We did it boys global warming is no more
What do you mean weld them to the sport? 5:45 I cannot figure out what you said or what you did
I mashed buttons till i figured it out lol
"Weld them to the support" That is the piece of wood that holds the wheels on either side.
If you wanna make a hybrid car. Why not use extendable pipe thingies (using pistons) with gears to turn the piston mode on/off?
nice,, i wonder if its possible to make reverse too by rotating the part sensors read.
like the variable timing on my engines.
It should be but you will have to add an extra bearing, controller and a switch
thats the cheapest parts on the list.
for my heavy hauler i just put a springglitch on each wheel,set to 26 and then connected controller to seat. downside is no brakes tho.
yeah i was lazy :P
i cant seem to get this one to work.. i added a total of (5) small pipes on both side to extend the axle...not sure if this is the cause of the problem....still have the two set at 90 / -15 / -60 ..so not sure what im doing wrong.
Just gonna say that kein anderer made a faster and cheaper piston engine, but this is still op
How do you make so that you can use W to drive?
One question
How do I turbocharge this engine
i used kan's piston engine, but i found a way to be able to use a piston engine without needing a weld tool so i just saved some time
nvm i still needed 5 pistons instead of 2
Oh yeah I made a car without that weld tool... Piston car"
Is there a way to have a better steering piston powered vehicle for big items because the one I have has horsepower to spare but turning is the issue?
I suggest you make the front wheel gap bigger and also add springs on the wheels. :)
@@Alstrak is there a one piston engines that you can add to the front to make it front assist?
what range are the sensors at? I can't get a consistent rotation out of my pistons, and it's either because of the sensors or my controller. I think.
1 block of range
I loved your tutorial, but I have made an error somewhere that I can not find. (I am a 71 yr old woman so not too mechanical, LOL). The piston closest to the flywheel goes around ok logic gate flashing on and off but the other piston puffs steam and logic gates lights up steady and doesn't rotate. I made sure all is welded, checked the controller and piston settings but I can't get it to work. Any suggestions?
I am unsure what the problem might be. May I ask you for your steam name and add you as a friend? Perhaps I can help then. :)
@@Alstrak gnarlyCrone
Um... what about the sensor range? does stranded 10 range could be a potential problem?
needs to be at 1!
@@Alstrak kk thanks
I was waiting for another upload and it final came out☺
I can’t seem to go into reverse and my car will drive forward when only the button on the logic gates are on. Can anyone help?
Edit: Nvm turns out I forgot to turn the timing bearing connected to the controller XD classic me.
I liked it so much, ty very much.
I think I followed the directions carefully. However when I hit the on switch, the car actually accelerates as if I hit the accelerator switch. What am I doing wrong?
Man i love this video. u explain soo cool what we are need and show them step by step!! Soo cool and easy to rebuild, saving sooo much Gasoline. :-)
I have to keep hit 1 on and off to get the engine moving, I have built it 4 times following your guide exactly and still it wont work. what am I missing?
For some odd reason, my right wheel and bearing will not connect to the frame. And also I couldn’t get the 4 piston one to work. All the pistons would work, then proceed to fight against each other. I’ve tried 60,75, & 90 degrees of timing. None worked so I settled with the 2 piston
Right now I can't think of a reason why that happens. I suggest you to rebuild it again by following the tutorial step by step.
5:43 does both bearings connect to the wood blocks when you click and drag like that? I thought you had to place the two blocks individually on the bearings?
The devs made that possible at some point. If you attach anything close to either a bearing or a piston it will automatically attach to them instead. Even if you are pointing to another block.
Could the suspension glitch be used the same way? Have two instances work against each other to provide forward momentum?
You could, but where is the fun in that?
@@Alstrak using suspension to defy gravity, if possible. If it can be used for forward movement, why not upward?
The best car for survival (in my opinion) would be a car with both piston and gas powers (and maybe even with transmission to increase fuel efficiency)
Gear systems don't work that well in this game.
@@Alstrak I saw a video where was engine with automatic transmission.
But my god ... the voice it make is maddening !!
So I tired making this in creative mode and I can't get it to go in reverse no matter what timing I set it to. It either goes forward or nothing.
Check the pinned comment.
@@Alstrak I did that. Didn't work. I keep adding advance and it never goes into reverse, it just stops working.
To be fair though, I did modify your design a little. I put the distributor on the inside of the tire instead of the outside. But it is still exactly as you built it.
Is it possible to put the timing system to the inside of the wheel instead of the outside?
Not efficiently. You won't be able to advance and retard the timing then.
Very good video
Alright I tried out this build in creative mode and some reason 1 my bearings connected to the controller showed the connections upright instead of down like in the video. im not sure how to change this or if its the issue. second if I try to make a 4 piston engine it seems to not work at all even if I mess around with the 2nd connection a lot. im not sure what im doing wrong here or how to fix it if I have these issues. the 2 piston engine seems to work for the most part though.
oddly I decided to make it in survival mode and it worked perfectly fine. Have not gotten to 4 pistons yet but loving it so much!
Your a real god thanks soo much man I had very trouble
it's a chemical reaction going on inside the battery which is powering the motor/engine. So it is an electric engine?
When I add two extra pistons making it 4 total it won’t move the pistons just work against each other idk how to fix it I followed the guide