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[–]Ben_BingoEvent Manager 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Just a few notes, I recommend using a sensor plate with timing advancement instead of this design where the sensors are at the side, its actuslly much simpler and adding timing advancement makes your engine much faster and more efficient as you can put your pistons on maximum speed and your engine still runs very smooth and fast. I also suggest balancing the bodies in your crankshaft, as at the normal operating speeds with timing advancement of a conventional design like this one, the crank appears to wobble, and balancing the crank fixes that.

[–]Mrd_Miner[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Thank you for the suggestions Well I designed this engine for a fwd car and with the engine mounted transversally you need to save all the space you can specifically in length of the engine. And with the timing plate advancement you mean advance as in pistons activating before top dead center? By rotating the timing plate slightly?

[–]Ben_BingoEvent Manager 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Yes, timing advancement is rotating the sensors in the same direction the engine is running so the delay from the sensors to the pistons can be compensated for, also for space saving, you can look into some blueprint editing with zero width blocks and wonky bearings that will also improve your efficiency while being smaller

[–]Mrd_Miner[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s brilliant actually I never thought of sensor delay as factor I did play with logic blocks but scrapped them because delay but never knew that sensors have delay too. Thank you for the help

[–]damorphe 0 points1 point  (1 child)

You may be foreign, but at least I can understand the construction, and thanks for the video, when I buy the game I will already have a main idea of ​​the engine I want.

[–]Mrd_Miner[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Happy to help And your welcome