I Built a Formula Kit Car with Mechanical Suspension, Transmission, and Differential!

Today we're finally going to build the formula race car from the first thumbnail and test it on the track! I'm excited to build this car as it has proper suspension and steering setups as well as a differential and transmission!
Snap parts together, resize them, change their materials, paint them, and link their behaviours together. Choose from over 200 parts, including functional mechanical elements such as motors, gears, pulleys, joints, springs, actuators, and much more. Turn, grab and shove your machines and watch the parts physically interact. Jump into the driver's seat and put your vehicles through their paces. Crash and smash your constructions to smithereens. Improve your building skills, or test out your creations, in the tutorial and challenge scenarios. Make rag-dolls from body parts and use them as your custom player character. Mod the game with Lua scripting to create your own custom tools, scenarios, challenges and mini-games. Share your creations with the community, try out what others have made, and maybe learn a new building trick or two along the way!
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#gearblocks #kangaming

[@kANGaming]

Time to make my own vehicle? What kind of vehicle should we do first?

[@The_Guy_That_Bikes]

Trophy truck

[@wyattrosman5162]

Make a crawler with portal axels with an engage able 4 wheel drive and a realistic drive train and lockable diffs 2 speed transmission

[@Anti-Smart]

Crawler/Buggy with four completely independent wheels. [No linkages between each wheel except for a central cab.] May be easier to do with all wheel drive[one motor per wheel] & all wheel steer.

[@MünWeeew]

Seeming as you can't keep your car off the wall, how about a demo derby car

[@Rade1664]

I would say build a more complicated gearbox than a 3 speed slider, then build a race car around it.

[@Creeperboy099]

It would be fun to see combustion engines added- would give more use to gearboxes

[@thundervallie]

Internal combustion engines are on the roadmap! May be a thing in the future :D

[@fatitankeris6327]

Engine Sim incoming

[@gh0stfe4]

It's here now

[@Trevinator1990]

would love to see you build a solid axle rock crawler with a ton of suspension flex using a transfer case for high and low range with a transmission. maybe locking and unlocking differentials?

[@trevismd]

If only this game had multiplayer.

[@flabort]

Multiplayer is on the roadmap, dev has said feel free to upvote it on the roadmap. Not sure where the roadmap is, but there's a good chance of it coming in 2024.

[@mike92943]

Yes

[@apersunthathasaridiculousl1890]

Fr

[@chillieuwu]

If only this game was on console.

[@thundervallie]

@@flabort I would not say a good chance, it’s a very big project :D But I do hope so.

[@stevepittman3770]

Can't wait to see you start working on your own vehicle. I care more about the mechanical bits than what it looks like, so if it's a box it's a box.

[@TheMostUt]

For the wobbly, you can install what F1 (and most other race vehicles) use, steering damper. This would be a shock absorber attached to the steering arm in the center, with the damper centered when the wheel is (obviously). This should also help to control understeer a little, as the steering would be smoothed, even with controller smoothing off. I wonder for the drive gear, could you make some sort of one-way clutch? That would put an end to the over-rev wheel lockups.

[@Chromatose420]

These GearBlocks videos are great, apologies if this is a siliar/dupe message, just wanted to help out by sharing a few "expert" parts I have a few part collections on the work shop that may help, like a 2x2 differential and 0.125 parts

[@frog9334]

So glad you found this game. Within 7 hours i was working on an awd mid dif full independent suspension car with a 3 speed, this game is amazing.

[@UnreasonablyIrrelevant-gv8xx]

Wow this is awsome. I'm so happy to be seeing more of this game from you Kan!! Gearblocks is simply awsome.

[@specialticket1122]

I love gearblocks

[@axelverdier4850]

The physic looks fabulous. Specially the driving grip: it looks like better than most dedicated games

[@davidaugustofc2574]

14:40 I was wondering how they'd do a push rod suspension if they were to be Formula accurate

[@fayetyler-l2b]

Make a transmission with reverse and lots of gears, that would be awesome

[@Lil_Tom351]

Previously, you talked about converting your Lego F1 car to RC, but it has a bad steering radius. I too have one, and found that there are some tan stops on the underside of the car, and if you remove them the steering radius gets smaller.

[@YoYoK3nny]

That last wreck was spectacular!

[@CiphecDec]

This kind of reminds me of making a RC car. I have been hesitant of picking this up but looks great

[@bonovoxel7527]

Dnk if this would be fun (to me) to play. Sometimes things are funnier to watch than to do. Maybe I'm just gettin old. To watch though, its a hell of a game! ❤I love it!

[@GamerGloves1860]

I know it would be pretty difficult but, seeing a six speed drag racer would be awesome. Just trying to see how fast you can make a car go and accelerate in a straight line.

[@bluebell2334]

looks crazy good so far, sort of what I always wanted from a game. Gonna try it out in the coming days and I hope to learn some mechanical stuff along the way.

[@MarkkuS]

Classic, warm up lap was the fastest.

[@creeplickitaOFFICIAL]

I really love the way you keep making theese amazing videoes! I hope to play the game by myself one day.

[@0nec_]

The physics in this game are amazing

[@kjkj-yy4oh]

you can use the rack and pinion with the stepper motor to build the transmission

[@RonantheNoob]

More gear Blocks yaaa

[@SEGY]

I'd love to see some more off-road stuff, maybe a trophy truck?

[@Pandorarl]

This game takes the best from scrap mechanic and the best from trailmakers

[@supbro3878]

i enjoy the sweet sound of straight cut gears i think this is the new goated scrap mechanic like game

[@Kierantheemo02]

I love this game so much, keep playing it kan!

[@DaredevilGG]

20:24 Tbf, it's only a little bit too much rotation on the wheel, as F1 cars actually have 360 degree steering rotation, they just bascially don't use it other than for the Monaco hairpin

[@102ndsmirnov7]

The way that front suspension collapsed was really similar to what happens in real life when they have a big crash. Wheels just hanging on for dear life.

[@Unknown-Number]

At 26:44 the character walked at the speed of the F1 car

[@Twisted1409]

The perfect drift car can exist 😁😁😁

[@blueflame_sm]

A perfect demonstration of why Halo's where added to F1 cars xD

[@juliandixon2535]

The valves in the shocks need to be switched for smaller ones, you definitely need a stepper motor and the gear ratio on the steering rack needs to be a lot higher and I think you’ve got yourself a nice race car

[@davidaugustofc2574]

This time it's for real, less goooooooo

[@reseturseIf]

You should race the cars in first person when you're trying to put down a serious lap, as your steering inputs are more accurate to you. The third person has the camera rotating, thus less accurate steering👍

[@foreverfafnir6177]

I would love to see some of the T-180’s from speed racer in this 😂

[@korey4241]

Next video please do the old tractor!!! Good videos kan, keep it up

[@AdanCR2]

Awsome video brother ✨

[@sazzadhossan9851]

In the front an f1 car no ponger uses cantilever suspension system they use whats called a torsion bar which twists a bar and that bar is essentially the "spring"

[@techstudio4556]

Keep the good work up!

[@8bitarmory846]

Wonder if a full transmission with a clutch is doable - have the motor running constantly, and shift between reverse, neutral, and the drive gears

[@1mariomaniac]

You could probably make a pseudo-clutch mechanism by having two crown gears (on the crankshaft and on the input shaft) mesh when a piston is extended. It wouldn't be very realistic because a real clutch can be partially engaged, but it'd work for these purposes.

[@keatonfrancisco6763]

I had to subscribe. KAN you're the goat

[@short0811]

Wow the destruction physics really deliver in this game! Too bad it doesnt have a multiplayer aspect (yet?).

[@alexanderkrauss6266]

Well, I just went ahead and building a hypercar as my first build. I´m already 10h in and got the rear, and some of the cockpit finished.

[@brain_jar2993]

The best way I found to do sequential gearboxes is with a stepper motor and rack gear instead of a piston.

[@dragonracer7383]

As a race car enthusiast I take speed champion sets and rebuild them, into the same cars, but closer to what the cars look like.

[@EmerikSmith]

When is the Railroader Episode?

[@ericbonanno5214]

I'm thinking you might have to get into some logic to make a compact transmission or at least make a display that tells you what gear you're in. I'm not fully sure I'll have to get the game and try it myself. I'll love to experiment with it.

[@steeljawX]

I mean, you keep saying this game is like Lego, but I'm honestly seeing this as virtual Lego Technic. Technic were the sets with the plastic wonky frame pieces with the interlocking pegs and they sometimes had an electric motor. Like there's a Lego Technic Train that both has a motor onboard the train, but there's also a switch that runs off of a motor as well. I don't know if they're making new ones or if they're still making them at all. I just remember them growing up. If you wanted pirates and castles, that was normal Lego. If you wanted like a Ferrari that could possibly go on its own (by motor or rubberband winding) that was Technic.

[@flabort]

They def still making them. I got a semi truck a couple of Christmases ago, no motor but the engine moves when you roll the tires, and there's a cargo container on the back with a crane, so you can use the rotating knobs to lift the container off the trailer and deposit it next to the truck.

[@1mariomaniac]

​@@flabortI've got a few cool technic sets too recently. A pull-back hot rod, a go-kart with a little engine, low, neutral, and high gears, and a cool little steering rack, and a little speed boat with hidden wheels on the bottom that rotate an engine and prop on the back.

[@DanielosLosos-o7z]

I WANT MORE OF THIS GAME this game is really cool i love it i am glad that i didn't bought trailmakers for the full price also i am curious if you would put the spring facing the back and front and make the mechanism for it how well it would translate and also if a "hinge" is over loaded how would it behave like if it would fly out like in scrap mechanic

[@sirjdog21]

Destruction Derby with the boys lol

[@Oats_YT]

Look at the rod in the back that sticks out it will tell you what gear you’re in

[@alkaliwreck2474]

Were the rear wheel treads opposite from each other? Maybe that's the wobble? IDK how much fidelity it has simulated in with that.

[@DeLoreanmann-du5iw]

It's motor layout is very similar to formula e cars but they are only supposed to have one motor directly connected to transmission.

[@techstudio4556]

Oh my god I WANNA SEE MORE and u need to make engines like one guy said u need to add like valves and rockers and stuff

[@IxhazeGT]

I forsee builders comps, like build a race car and then have a 5 series tournament lol SN: you need anti roll bars :)

[@NPW007]

Thats a torsion bar, which is actually what they use in F1 cars

[@puipuixproduction]

Me after that video: Shut up and take my money !!

[@poptart3800]

Love your videos!

[@Goose-it]

Workshop hunters, but with kits

[@Trainzdude]

Make a geared (shay, climax, or heisler) locomotive. Just replace train wheel with normal and for now make the electric motor run the pistons (for aestetics).

[@AverageS2000Enjoyer]

Its not called a cantilever suspension (although that does exist, just a different kind of suspension) its called a pushrod suspension.

[@yurik1994]

20:47 damn this guy is a crash dummy! Shadow reveals lol

[@jakebaker3299]

I hope this comes to console I really do, this would scratch a itch I've been having that trailmakers isn't scratching if you know what I mean 🙌

[@Xx0bamaGamingxX]

And now, we wait for an actual engineer to make a drift car that makes 30 sec laps on this track

[@fatitankeris6327]

Making a mech would be fun... Although laggy...

[@cruzhilton902]

Man U should make a drift car

[@mini_thug]

I made a pretty good transmission with clutch gears

[@uneducatedarchives]

PLEASE TEST IF CAMBER ON THE FRONT HELPS TURNING!!!

[@rooobertanderson9865]

You cold buld a working steam engine

[@Sloppyjoe96]

my one has cantilever front and rear on off-road setup.. traxxas nitro slayer lol

[@ghostraptor2607]

I'm struggling with learning the building mechanics, this looks unparalleled in terms of making proper vehicle dynamics but I have yet to buy the full game.

[@ElDookenstine]

Feel like these vehicles are missing swaybars. But not sure how you would accomplish that if this game doesn't have torsion bars.

[@fayetyler-l2b]

love it

[@mattymerr701]

I don't get why youtubers don't use follow cam. It is always terrible to view it with the sudden moves to trying to keep up with turns. Motion sickness to the max

[@timehunter9467]

I’m annoyed my specs barely meet minimum for this, I’d buy this game in a heartbeat. 3 speed gearbox looks cool, but I bet it could be improved.

[@BenMemd2]

Thank god for halos

[@annieolder2159]

The destruction of this game is so satisfying

[@1mariomaniac]

That last collision with the debris was awesome

[@salvoix86]

Make a torsen differential with two worm gears. Search "lego torsen differential" if you don't know how.

[@blendpinexus1416]

if only i could afford to buy this. or really any game for that matter.

[@Jormungandr633]

I wish the car had slicks

[@isaacstout8911]

Holy

[@anbulaw4329]

if only this game was on console

[@spykecameron8154]

Diffs have 4 spider gears all of them never have came across one with only 3 spider gears and they have pinion gear for the input that the other part in having trouble with

[@raginggamer2615]

There are two things surprising in the comments

[@jonathanpan6110]

Railroads online has a new locomotive now. Pls play

[@LehanJ.]

what game is this

[@Nova-8630]

Why is this game not available on linux

[@ProfessorVoxel]

Yipee.

[@bread0237]

Bread

[@anikindupreez-n9p]

three wheel car thats all i have to say pls make a three wheeler

[@tywayne5410]

5 speed transmission

[@alrichhill48]

Forget a race car build a drift mobile

[@joshuathomasbird]

(suspension) pole in the (suspension) hole.

[@ds-3d283]

180 degrees total???. no its good in the game sorry kan

[@pipmalpass9884]

Rail roads online 😢

[@eevee7179]

13th

[@chasejorgensen6755]

guh

[@Astro_Dog777]

14 mins