So I had an idea

So how do you secure the intake and exhaust manifolds against something doing >1RPM?
Also, the mass of piston acting against the cylinder walls would be extreme, especially for seals that rely on cylinder pressure to seal.

>ou want to do this, with two crankshafts...

Are you stupid? Are you literally stupid? The tilting cylinder was an example of a solid rod in a piston, not the design of the cylinder.

You intentionally misunderstood that.

Either I am genuinely obtuse, or you're missing the part where the kinetic energy from a piston is directly relayed to the crankshaft and has nowhere else to go. Piston

You said above you wanted to use two crankshafts. At any rate, everything else stands. How do you operate the valves when the whole fucking head and block is moving in relation to the crank? Why in God's name would you want so.much mass flapping around constantly? How are you going to hook up the intake and exhaust with a flapping fucking engine. This shitbox will take up at least 3 times the space of a regular engine of the same size. You have no crankshaft lubrication at all. I can come up.with more issues of you want? Or you could do some critical thinking yourself perhaps.

You are being obtuse. THink, how does a normal piston work?

Now keep that motion the same, just add a solid rod that doesn't move between the piston and connecting rod.

Same motion.

The mass acting against the cylinder walls would be identical to a normal engine.

You guys seem to be missing how a normal piston transforms linear motion into circular motion.

You literally misunderstood what I just told you that you intentionally misunderstood.

The point of that gif was to show that you can have a stationary rod int he cylinder--nothing is moving but the same parts that move in a normal engine.

Its just gonna pivot around between solid rod and crank without a full 360 motion like suspension does. That's why conrods bolt directly to the crank.

Mmm. The pressure on that vertical-only conrod would laterally astronomical if the 2nd con rod was short enough to allow a full rotation, but then the 2nd half of the return rotation wouldn't pressurize the cylinder for the next cycle anyway if it runs 4t.

How are you misunderstanding this?

See how the piston rod connects to a normal connecting rod, that connects, normally, to a crank in this example?

Is there a video/.gif of this idea working outside of paper, as an internal combustion engine and not a crank-driven pump?