4 cyl straight gmod engine

Decided to overcome the use of rigid ropes for this engine (previous ones used em).

This is a 4 cylinder upside down straight. Everything this engine is built of is object based. It took me most of 15 hrs to build not to mention the 3 times it spazz-ed out on me. I havent put a rpm counter on it yer (dunno how to build one lol). Each piston has 3 thrusters each of 30000 force (yeah this engine is heavy).

The engine isnt complete yet i have to admit. i need to build a frame for it and has the starter motor swing down.

The pieces used are from a addon packs:

PHX
Primitive Mechanics Beta .4

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Four
• Cylinder
• Straight
• gmod
• engine
• Half
• Life

[TheAgentbrady101]

I play gmod regularly and have been playing for about 4 years, is there anyway to build something like this and resize EVERY component of it so you can make a nice engine like this that would be real size, Ive seen other ones but none with the pistons that are small.

[physicmad]

@TheAgentbrady101 its a thought but 1:not Source engine wise possible 2: not feasable in small form anyway. You'd really feck up the weighting management and also screw up the collision models.

[TheAgentbrady101]

@physicmad true, it was just a thought anyway, but resizing it and maintaining "aspect ratio" so to speak. and keeping all the welds the same, or parenting them for total strength, though it is most likely not possible (yet). But, don't you agree its a good idea :D

[physicmad]

@TheAgentbrady101 i did make possibly the smallest 4 cylinder version of the above using the smallest objects in the phx model pack i could find. the engine was rediculously fast. So fast infact that it reached source engine's max angular velocity. worked out to have a RPM of around 650 i think. tried to make it go faster with a mod i found which unlimits the angular velocity but the engine destabalised just after 680 RPM XD and we know what thats all about LOL!!!

[diablofocker1]

Not really an engine, the crankshaft you made is made up of 4 different pieces spinning on different rounds.

The crankshaft should be all one piece.

[physicmad]

@diablofocker1 it is one peice had about 56 welds.

[KukleRUS1]

cool crankshaft

[TheMetalguitar16]

@CH1LLH it can be attached to a car. engines can make cars go faster than normal wheels

[CH1LLH]

COOL!! but... what does it do?

[ragemccloud]

still cool though

[ragemccloud]

@mjndblain That depends on which I4 we're talking about. However, by all technical means he has it firing every time the piston hits top dead center which is also wrong. That's only showing 2 strokes which would be impossible to maintain. It's missing Intake and Exhaust strokes. The pistons should hit TDC Twice per 4 strokes.

[mjndblain]

that's not the right firing order its 1,4 and 2,3 both in sync like 1,4 up 2,3 down

[enrichmentSphereOne]

Nicely done

[santicapo10]

@TheAgentbrady101 well atm it is possible, you just need the "potato chamber" prop under miscellaneous props in PHX and the paint bucket under Useful Comic Props, there you have your piston and cylinder :> then you need a pole from robotics and gears, then just align and place stuff, then use rigid rope and voila :D have in mind, the heavier, the stronger the weld is

[anotaren79]

@TheAgentbrady101 me to :D

[TheAgentbrady101]

@anotaren79 sweet, though I moved on from garrysmod :( I play minecraft now :)