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.

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.

Alstrak: "yes a motor, engines convert chemical energy to rotational energy, while motors convert any energy to rotational energy" also Alstrak: "piston 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Man you're pretty smart for figuring this stuff out

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.

I too, have been using pistons before they got released

WOW dude nice editing. BEST SCRAP MECHANIC CHANNEL OUT THERE

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

Awesome guide thanks!

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.

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. :-)

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

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

This was great =) Thanks alot! :D

Cool video man!!

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

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

Very good. Thanks!

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!

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

I liked it so much, ty very much.

Thanks for 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

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

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

great stuff. subscribed

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.

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

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

ur a legend man, thanks

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

great thx man good content

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

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

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!!

Thanks!

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

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

well done sir

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!

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

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?

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

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

my dude your FOV is insane

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

Very good video

Amazing

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?

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 :) .

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

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

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)

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.

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

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.

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 :)

You are a genius

WOW GREAT VIDEO GG

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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

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

thank you this tips i like you :)

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

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?

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

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

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

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!

Can i get some help pls when i build it everything is right my bearings just glitch out and dont rotate only move left righ up and down Edit worked in creative in survival i welded stuff wrong and thats why

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?

Does changing stroke distance increase vehicle power?

yours seem to go alot faster and smoother than mine do u have any idea why?

can you create piston based engine and a train system for delivering crates?

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

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.