Who Can Build a Piston Powered Engine With the MOST Horsepower? 

can the next challenge be making vehicles with the engines and have a race

i am a little curious, is there a way for us to download your mods in the workshop and all? i don't even have SM i am just asking for if i ever get it, i don't think an I3 runs it though.

kan maybe you need someone to cut down your ego and do better than you lmao.

Here is my tip for you: The sensors and logic gates all have a 0.025 second delay, so the faster your engine goes, the worse the timing gets. This means that you should advance the timing as the engine goes faster.

You should try hook up your explosive engine on the dyno, maybe you'll be able to make a car using it after all this time

There are designs that currently can actually

​@@Ben_Bingo700+hp?

Yeah there are some crazy engines out there. We already beat them by torque, but speed is trickier

@@_miobrot_603 magnetmotors are the future, man. They've gotta be

@@_miobrot_603 kein has an engine that can do both

It would be cool if it was more than 2 fps

love this idea, kan should definitely do it

I wonder if it would change the hp value of you changed the firing order? Might help with balance like if it was 1,4,2,3

i think the piston engines are a bit too big to fit in something like a car

@@samik_456 oh they definitely fit...

@@FancyDucko it would probably only fit in like a huge car

@@samik_456 no not really... I personally have made one, and they fit just fine

@@FancyDucko can you show it on your channel

Nice pfp.

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@@naniwara8673 Why thank you, right back at you.

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Putting less angle between pistons helps but requires a matching number of pistons, so he couldn't use that for this challenge. You cannot make a 4-piston engine with just 60° offset, you'd have little to no power for 1/3 of each rotation unless you use a multiple of 6 pistons. You want to always keep the offset as 360/c with c being the number of crankshaft cams (which should match the number of pistons unless you're getting fancy with multiple pistons on each cam) Changing the activation/firing order of the pistons can squeeze a tiny bit more performance out of the engine, but it's mostly done to reduce vibration and wear. If you're referring to the starting position of the cams (ie, you mean he should have made the crankshaft start as an _x_ instead of a +), that really only effects the starting torque. It would let the engine start under a larger load, but it wouldn't increase the actual power or speed of the engine.

Im sure he did too. they need to lock from back (encoder) to front (output shaft) and he did the opposite

I was thinking the same thing, I’m glad someone else noticed, proves I’m not crazy lol

I think the locks are the right way if you are accounting for a heavy load on the output shaft.

In my experience, each piston pushes at a certain pretty exact point so they end up fighting each other on specific rotations

@@Wheagg you could easly synchronize them

I'd love it if it was a series where he tackles 1 part per video. That would really let him make a car as accurately as possible.

If you are talking about the unstable inline 4 Kan made, the problem had nothing to do with weight, it was simply that piston nr1 was blocking the view of sensor nr4 for a split second.

That’s what I was thinking. You could vary the cam length by replacing the straight pipes woth pistons

how tf do you increase stroke without increasing crank length? they have a direct relationship

@@theannihilator665 keep the crank like on a minimum-length motor, just put the rail that the piston sits on to rotate further back and have a rod before the piston

@@Wheagg no offense bro, but I barely even understood what you're trying to say, you mean having the piston further from the center of the crankshaft correct?

@@theannihilator665 not your fault cause it's difficult to explain but basically you put more distance between the piston and the bearing above the crank. Now the crank is the same, but the piston is pushing at less of an angle, so you lose less of that torque from the piston pushing to the side

@@Wheagg ah i follow now

Not entireley accurate. Torque is strength, rpm is speed, hp is just a product of those two factors(how much torque it can produce at a speed). For example, 100rpm 200NM will be the exact same hp as 200rpm 100NM. However, in real life, more hp usually means more speed because torque and rpm can sorta float around and change in a gearbox.

I think the problem is that piston engines are close to a 2-stroke in function then a 4-stroke which means you would need a different timing order

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