Making a Wankel Engine in Besiege

[@ReidCaptain]

Just a heads up: I moved recently, so the audio is a little rougher than usual, but it should be good to go next week. For some reason this engine is inspiring me to make a helicopter.

[@thebearslicer7736]

"For some reason" YOU READ MY EARLY COMMENT DIDN'T YOU REID

[@whyiwakeup6460]

I honestly didn’t notice.

[@kanderssen7629]

Couldn't tell the difference

[@lich.possum]

Yesss make a helicopter I love those things

[@talion9289]

Audio sounds fine, also great video. I love your besiege videos, they're a good way to learn.

[@maradupras7278]

I'm so used to steam cannons being used everywhere that seeing a water cannon actually shooting water felt wrong to me lol

[@shoking9825]

how the hell is this comment before the video 21 hours ago

[@cameronclark3418]

@@shoking9825 he might’ve commented on a premier stream? I know some videos I can comment the day before

[@bigbird4481]

@@cameronclark3418 i think that members have early access

[@maradupras7278]

@@shoking9825 If you're active enough in his discord server you get to see the videos a day early

[@whitesingularity403]

Ikr

[@toblexson5020]

It's not an engine, but you could always try an orion drive. It'd probably be simpler than any normal project, and might not be too interesting, but it does include explosions.

[@LiquidSandwich]

The bomb powered rocket idea?

[@vaokon9739]

@@LiquidSandwich The nuclear bomb rocket idea

[@SlovakDiplomat]

@Vaokon The Hydrogen Bomb rocket idea

[@no_name2882]

@@SlovakDiplomat The bomb that uses a small scale atom bomb to compress radioactive and other isotopes to the point of fusion causing a explosion that takes place in 1/4 of a second.

[@eddygworpo3181]

Yea you are a human

[@THESLlCK]

there's nothing more fun than watching someone learn through experience, even after knowing it from the books inside and out

[@QuakeGamerROTMG]

Looks like it's sealing about as well as your average RX-8 so well done!

[@freyawion5337]

Yep XD Although some RX-8 came with a normal piston engine instead of a wankel.

[@Wilma5532]

@@freyawion5337 That is incorrect, they only came with rotaries, hence the name RX - Rotary Xperimental

[@freyawion5337]

@@Wilma5532 Didn't they cancel rotary production mid-series and started making them with normal engines?

[@Wilma5532]

@@freyawion5337 No, although, they did change some things here and there with the engine, the RX8 only had a rotary engine through its whole production.

[@aniquinstark4347]

If it ain't leaking it's out of oil lol

[@Benjobros]

This guy never fails to amaze me

[@THESLlCK]

steam cannons (water cannon plus fireball) are the best propulsion source for replicating internal combustion engines

[@alberttrita5858]

or use block enhancement mod and have steam cannons without the fireballs or torches heating them up.

[@1mariomaniac]

Just so you know, the main rotational elements of rotary engines are called "rotors" :)

[@thelarryman482]

Who'da thought

[@1mariomaniac]

@@thelarryman482 I don't even remember making this, I'm sure it makes more sense with context or maybe it was just me making a stupid comment at 3am thinking it was the funniest thing ever I dunno lmao.

[@ryaquaza3offical]

This guy over here making a Wankel Engine in Besiege and there’s me just sitting here making a Wanking Engine and laughing for 2 minutes straight

[@samkal02]

"A triangular.... Piston for lack of a better work". There is a better word, it's called a rotor

[@moofy69]

a lot more accurate to the engine than i thought it would be. good job

[@kabadodong]

“Piston: for lack of a better word” Rotors: “Am I a joke to you?”

[@stefanofarnedi5649]

"piston for lack of a better word". That word is rotor.

[@Poisonjam7]

Ahhh, I love the Wankel! Such a beautiful design, and one of the coolest sounding engines of all time imo. Some people love the high pitched whine of the F1 engines of the 80s, while others love the growl of the V8 muscle cars of the 60s and 70s, and some people (like myself) love the wonderfully unique sound of the Wankel Engine. Particularly those found in a classic Mazda RX-7! Great job replicating it here. Too bad it can’t replicate the sound too, but that’d be asking too much.

[@bobi_lopataru]

Am I delusional or are you actually seeing and taking in consideration my comments? Ultimate test for this: get the precision physics mod, it helps engines and complicated mechanisms a lot!

[@Sejiko]

Wait a minute does this mean its less wobbly with this mod?

[@abyss9447]

@@Sejiko Yes! I use it all the time.

[@damienlepine4163]

YES! exactly the type of video i wanted. looking forward to more combustion engine besiege vids!

[@Haxihoovis]

I think that part of the way this works is that the triangle is a Roleaux triangle, which is unique because the "diameter" is the same all the way around, like a circle.

[@vendesifiat600]

Just finished watching the plane video where you show the early design of this

[@CanadianProud_]

Rotary engines were cool. Sadly, the last rotary powered car was the RX-8 from Mazda and was discontinued back in 2011. They were very rev happy and produced way more power with very small displacement, however reliability issues were also becoming a problem. Rip rotary engines.

[@juliemittel3931]

"IMMA TELL YOU ANYWAYS" -brian, RCR

[@Terminarch]

I just find it funny that you spend most of your time in this vid manually tugging on a "wankel"

[@darksoles1305]

That was the whole reason i clicked tbh

[@VenThusiaist]

Fact: That's a freaking Reuleaux Triangle, created by either equally intersecting 3 circles, or drawing a circle curve with a compass, having the pivot point being the 3 corners, the radius of the circle curves being the length of the triangle edges, and the curves start and end at the two other corners. It's easier done than said.

[@ScorpioHR]

Dude, this sandbox is SICK! What a great time to be alive!

[@ReclaimerStudios]

I Dare you to make a plane with this engine in besiege.

[@ReidCaptain]

Maybe if I made it really small but that sounds hard

[@thundervallie]

hey just fyi, the “piston” in a wankel engine is actually called a rotor

[@Khofax]

Random forum thread: I have a problem powered wheels are not working in besiege Reid Captain: Easy fix just do this

[@lizardude9114]

powered gears when

[@MiniePixie]

Man this guy does everything i want to be able to do in building games, i worked on this when i saw ur cylinder engine builds. Beat me to the finish line

[@Sphyxx]

I used to play besiege years back just because of the things other people made and how cool they were and inviting friends to play in the same map to dogfight with jets and stuff

[@abnormallynormal8823]

I see you found the bane of all rotary engines. Apex seals.

[@kono12345]

You should convert the plane you made a while back into a bomber, something like a He 111 or DH 98.

[@diangelosoriano]

great video as always! i love seeing your prototype process

[@duythuchoang5095]

I'd like to see you create a nuclear bomb powered engine

[@pangolinguard6089]

The reason it broke off was the brace thought it was attached to both of those structures Edit:I’m watching further and that’s why I stopped playing besiege was because of the rediculous connections it would do

[@TreeFlob]

I’d hire this guy in an instant if I was running a car repair company

[@BK-ut3wc]

“Car repair company”

[@TreeFlob]

@@BK-ut3wc correct

[@VascoCC95]

If you're up to weird engines, you could try Atkinson cycle ones, used in some hybrid cars

[@devjith6505]

Understood nothing but kept me entertained through out the whole video Great work

[@tyritchie1993]

A H16 engine from the old formula 1 cars would be interesting to see.

[@paggnut]

15 minutes long video about dorito engine without a single mention to apex seals... how? Btw 15:04 pretty relatable

[@cameronclark3418]

Yeah was kind of odd he didn’t put those in

[@terramasterguy8576]

this seems like the most convoluted way to make an engine

[@namae6637]

In the car world, we call that 'piston' a rotor.

[@CMDR_Ignitus]

nobody: WANKLE ENGINE

[@yaboianz]

about the description; rotary powered planes would be actually sick, since rotaries can rev up to around 10,000 RPM when taken decent care of

[@vikovitch769]

Start with a triangle. Take one corner as middlepoint of a circle, corner A, and let the circle be exactly big enough to hit the other 2 corners. Remove 2/3 of the circle keeping the 1/3 opposing corner A. Thats the exact round edge u need on every edge of the triangle for the shape

[@nathanielscott6159]

This game is made out of literal vibranium.

[@mistafishman]

"Piston" = Rotor :P

[@Fake-fk7zo]

that´s some serious engineering well done

[@THESLlCK]

the "triangle piston" as you call it is a rotor.

[@therobonoob6766]

I'am still supirsed how this guy knows how to make this stuff

[@Trinitrophenylmethylnitramines]

This is the type of guy who can build a nuclear reactor in his room

[@ruinhunter2281]

I dont know who the hell wankel is but i am fully invested

[@ayaderg]

good ol rotary engine power and rotary engine reliability there!

[@jefferyrader5153]

Rotary engines are actually known for not sealing well, thus they consume more oil and have pretty bad emissions.

[@QuakeGamerROTMG]

They consume oil because the surface where the rotor touches the housing needs to be lubricated. But that is of course where combustion happens so oil gets injected in and burned off with the fuel.

[@jefferyrader5153]

@@QuakeGamerROTMG also why they have a "lubrication pump". I played with putting a two rotor in a jetta and did some research lol.

[@Bananaman74799]

Take a shot after every time “ring gear” is said

[@hamishfox]

You could take the outer rim off entirely since you're gaining power from a constant stream of water not a timed explosion in an enclosed chamber.

[@ReidCaptain]

True, but it makes it look slightly more like the real thing

[@jeimasuta_v598]

Reid captain is one of the best people in these types of games lol

[@marcusbressan28]

Imagine a car, with 4 different engines for each wheel.

[@stutterpunk9573]

It's called a rotor :)

[@smellysoysauce]

Hello I just wanna say your videos are great, I've seen a ton of Besiege, Poly Bridge, KSP, and Scrap Mechanic gameplay, but there are *very few* people on youtube with the engineering smarts to make half the stuff you make. Kerbal Space Program is maybe an exception, there are some really great KSP youtubers like Scott Manley. Anyway thanks for making such quality content! Your innovations are genuinely inspiring.

[@FrednekFromTWS]

What would be cool, is a drone in Dream Car Builder.

[@shoking9825]

i found this channel and i love it

[@markadrianarocena1817]

If i were awesomeness i would be him

[@sergiyrr5153]

this is abso-fucking-lutly incredible

[@Known_as_The_Ghost]

Congratulations! You made a vehicle in Besiege! Seriously though. This was pretty cool.

[@dosnoir]

Maybe trying a 3 to 1 ratio instead lf 2 to 1 like an actual Wankel might help with your torque issues. Also maybe a gear reduction could also help with your toqure problems great video bte Love the Wankel engine.

[@ReidCaptain]

The output is 3:1 but the ring gear touches the center gear twice. It's just a lot of weird geometry stuff lol

[@dosnoir]

Ahh i see lots of jank:)

[@sanoman1a67]

FINALY the video i rly wanted TIP: i would recommend making the walls half pipes so the rotary would sit snugly in but not bind

[@HRM.H]

Dorito power , i haven't watched yet but fully expect it to blow a apex seal.

[@backture2863]

How much time do you have? This Guy: Yes

[@stuckylar]

Nile Reid

[@coldlock792]

Bruh this guy is a genius

[@philiprousseau7333]

the new RX9 is looking hot

[@elios7623]

ah yes, the rotary engines, too bad they didn't last too long and high revs made fuel fly, the concept is cool

[@dontbealoneru]

be a good guy, make gearbox for this car

[@lionbryce10101]

A Reuleaux triangle is a triangle with constant width

[@techsbyglebbagrov7470]

As a sort of "tradition" on the channel, it has to be also made boom-boom powered

[@Martin-dw4eo]

Now produce it as a car commercially.

[@nocakenocode6685]

can hear the 787B coming through

[@derangedoven7928]

Even though this video has less views than others I still love your content. Keep it up

[@186scott]

One thing you forget to mention is a Wankel engine normally has 3 or 4 banks of them so if you was to make more than just one it would work alot better

[@thomasb1521]

You could look at liquid pistons rotory engine. It is a similar idea to the Wankel but has 3 combustion areas that all are out of phase

[@stairfall12345678900]

not sure if this was already mentioned in the video, but this entire thing could be simplified if the middle triangle was replaced with a windmill/spiked wheel shape.

[@koekcoek]

Awesome, i luv rotarys. Having one myself

[@jeremyjay8875]

OMG finding this for me was like finding gold

[@hansdietrich83]

10:45 no it's not normal. On a real wankel engine, the Rotor touches the housing continously. The Animation from Wikipedia uses a Reuleaux-Triangle as the Rotor shape, which is only an approximation of the correct shape, which is the inner envelope of a peritrochoid curve. The housing is defined by an Epitrochoid curve. Those two shapes mesh perfectly when they are defined by the same parameters.

[@misdelivereddishwasher1011]

yeah i'm a little disappointed by how much wrong he gets about wankel engines in here. it's impressive yeah but like, it's barely what it's supposed to be

[@mach2223]

The madman actually did it

[@billysquires7202]

0:09 that 'piston' is called a rotor

[@lifelesshawk5725]

Here’s a game, every time he says gear take a shot

[@THESLlCK]

all the issues you have in replicating a brapper in the game are what engineers have to deal with irl

[@WhatIsThatThingDoing]

Pity the poor devil that has that name.

[@griffinhatchling]

Builded a 2 engine helicopter once, very hard to calibrate the engines and stabilizing parts.

[@alexdacat7052]

Btw you can make curves and stuff with a new experimental piece It’s free form basically

[@Animanatee]

reid captains illuminati acceptance video.

[@thekak2627]

I believe that's also called a rotary engine

[@Megum27]

YOUR VIDEOS ARE SO AMAZING

[@superturbo3407]

This needs more views, nice work

[@susukiyamoatske3698]

I know greatness when I see it.

[@THESLlCK]

there are rotary engines called liquid piston rotaries that have a power stroke on EVERY stroke, check them out

[@gabrieldimitrov9587]

I swear you sound exactly like NileRed... are you twins?!

[@imadrifter]

The Takahashi Brothers want to know your location

[@robinsz]

This "piston" is called a ROTOR