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.

@kc_z9655

4 жыл бұрын

15 Additional degree add at 2nd?

@dragonmen0027

4 жыл бұрын

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?..

@jacobdestroyah2120

4 жыл бұрын

KZreadrs: make piston engines for unlimited fuel Me: hold my maxed controller Check out my latest video to see what i mean

@Alstrak

4 жыл бұрын

@@jacobdestroyah2120 I laughed too hard on that one. :D

@jacobdestroyah2120

4 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@magepunk7711

4 жыл бұрын

Hopefully they give you the ability to put pumps on oil nodes. It's a pain.

@apexalaska

4 жыл бұрын

I'm really curious whether a vaccum pump would work. Or if it would just suck water. It would probably just suck up water.

@magepunk7711

4 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@thebestwagon5236

3 жыл бұрын

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"

@AI-Idiot

4 жыл бұрын

The piston engines convert linear energy into rotational energy

@poopyscoopy7863

4 жыл бұрын

shh, it’s a secret

@CyberGenesis1

4 жыл бұрын

@@AI-Idiot Batteries are stored energy, being converted to rotational energy...

@CyberGenesis1

4 жыл бұрын

"If it's already broke, don't fix it"

@gamerbombstudios2668

4 жыл бұрын

@@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

"Best Design" is asymmetrical x doubt.

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.

@lebird1559

9 ай бұрын

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

Amazing video. Very clear, calm, well explained and demonstrated. Thank-you

I too, have been using pistons before they got released

@portza6363

4 жыл бұрын

thruster engine gang

@Steinersgarage

4 жыл бұрын

@@portza6363 Og Thruster engine gang

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.

@Alstrak

4 жыл бұрын

I agree

@nulnoh219

4 жыл бұрын

They could have make it so that you can get bio-diesel from one of the crops you farmed.

@CyberGenesis1

4 жыл бұрын

reasons most of us have edited oil in the configs somehow - or added "biodiesel" as a crafting recipe

@adtrlthegamer7449

4 жыл бұрын

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. ^_^

@phobos1963

4 жыл бұрын

Scoop that’s what I tought when I built an electric motor, I was like but dude battery are literally more rare than gas

Wonderful tutorial, thank you Alstrak

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.

WOW dude nice editing. BEST SCRAP MECHANIC CHANNEL OUT THERE

Dude, that's so good! I've never attempted a piston engine, but I may have to give this one a try!

Hey this is a really nice video, well made tutorial and I love the added touch of technical terms.

This was great =) Thanks alot! :D

I was waiting for another upload and it final came out☺

I wish these small youtubers had more attention and more peaples watching!

Awesome guide thanks!

Man you're pretty smart for figuring this stuff out

thanks for the piston engine, Alstrak! I love your work:D

@Alstrak

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

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.

Cool video man!!

Clear.fast.not bs stuff about asking for like or subs at the intro .. i luv it 💪

Your a real god thanks soo much man I had very trouble

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. :-)

this guy made so much quality content, I wish he made more videos

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.

Had a real rough time - but all setup! damn that's fun

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.

@Alstrak

4 жыл бұрын

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 liked it so much, ty very much.

Very good. Thanks!

Flat four, mid engine, rear wheel drive, My man that looks like a Porshe Cayman.

@urmomgay0166

4 жыл бұрын

flat two

@double-you3409

4 жыл бұрын

@@urmomgay0166 In the end of the video he makes a flat four version, and technically the first one is a horizontal inline 2.

great stuff. subscribed

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.

ur a legend man, thanks

3:42 If you want to go straight to the tutorial

@Alstrak

4 жыл бұрын

I forgot to put a timestamp. I will add it to the description. :)

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.

Gud vid alstrik Edit: it has that outro too!!! Best outro ever

wow... you've been making piston engines for a long time... nice job

Thanks for this!

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.

thank you for the design i will now go make an extremely complicated driveshaft because i like overcomplicating everything

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.

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

great thx man good content

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

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

@board7374

4 жыл бұрын

exactly

@mLevyks

4 жыл бұрын

i think kans engine is better

@caperocker6269

4 жыл бұрын

Yknow how bearings, suspentions and pistons disapear when you remove the block they attached to. Remove those 3 first then all blocks

@jonathanclark7444

4 жыл бұрын

Sam Holt k thx!

"It's cheap" " *...You will need 18 Component kits* "

@Alstrak

4 жыл бұрын

You can get them easily from crates. :)

@xor_the_protogen

4 жыл бұрын

@@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

@AHHEUS

4 жыл бұрын

CharTee _ it is cheap

@giin97

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@xor_the_protogen

4 жыл бұрын

@@giin97 same

WOW GREAT VIDEO GG

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!

this is a good one love it happy as a hammer hitting nails lol

Thanks alot for this I needed it for unlimited fuel!. also it steal works today if you have not heard.

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

@Alstrak

4 жыл бұрын

You can but it gets complicated real quick. :)

Very good video

well done sir

This’s wat happens when the builder out smart the game.

You are a genius

this guy is literally the scrap mechanic equivalent of mumbo jumbo, but with livetreams

@uggranpops8442

4 жыл бұрын

@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

Thanks!

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.

nice design, everyone make sure if you make this in creative mode you set your sensors to one really screwed me up at first

my dude your FOV is insane

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

thank you this tips i like you :)

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?

Amazing

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!!

@Alstrak

4 жыл бұрын

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.

liked and subbed

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!

Lol, i love how this is like the comectals that are like, Have you been tired of bla bla bla bla ...

@chaoz_2k185

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly liked the comectals 🤣

@katz9649

4 жыл бұрын

Commercials*

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

is there any change u would do a video on ball joint steering attached to this piston engine ?

perhaps shortening your wheel base and adding large wheels to the front will improve steering

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.

yep thats exactly the good timing plate i tested some for my I4 thats the best design

@Wreckedftfoxy

3 жыл бұрын

also the higher the angle the faster for the timing plate

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?

@Alstrak

4 жыл бұрын

No need. Just add the additional stuff and you should be good. :)

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

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.

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

Ill need to ajust my controllers but the engine is prety darn cool & no problems with tight turns since it has the torque & the welded diff wich allows me to drift

Me, who carries atleast 60 spare gas, clogging up my inventory: ahahah yes bring the car back on a lift so relatable.

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?

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'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 :) .

its very good

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)

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

If you wanna make a hybrid car. Why not use extendable pipe thingies (using pistons) with gears to turn the piston mode on/off?

next, piston car with suspension so it's not so bouncy and flippy overy.. ;)

But my god ... the voice it make is maddening !!

good video, but which is more efficient car to controller or car to pistons

Just gonna say that kein anderer made a faster and cheaper piston engine, but this is still op

nice,, i wonder if its possible to make reverse too by rotating the part sensors read. like the variable timing on my engines.

@Alstrak

4 жыл бұрын

It should be but you will have to add an extra bearing, controller and a switch

@MrLarsgren

4 жыл бұрын

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 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.

Have you found a good way to add suspension to the rear? Tried a few different ways with mine but doesn't seem like it works well. Great video :)

I will save up the mats for this

I used Gas engines for planes in Survival, Ohhh I can smell the Kerosine from here

Hi, is there a way to convert rotation from X axis to Y axis somehow? I would like to try something with two wheels only. Great Tutorial Alstrak, keep up the good work

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.