Engine challange

[Sabrez]

Seeing that the latest break-through in kerbal science has brought propellers,I was wondering if something vaguely resembling a combustion engine could be made and used to power a rover or car. I myself am not capable of even attempting this but i am calling on the great minds of others to see if this would even be possible.of course if someone where able to pull this off they would receive all the reps and cake:D

[Flixxbeatz]

So basically... a rover powered by SRBs/rocket engines/ion engines?

Already being done before, when there's still no such things as stock rover wheels:

[Azimech]

I've built them, both with mods and stock.

Very difficult to reduce in size at this moment. And the stock engine ... has 845 parts.

Edited February 21, 2015 by Azimech

[Jouni]

You mean like this?

It actually works surprisingly well. Two basic jets generate just the right amount of power for the wheels, and there is enough fuel for over 2 hours. With top speed around 10 m/s, the rover has a range of over 70 km.

[PSOliver]

If your looking for something that looks like an engine I have something but it is using six nuclear reactors tilted in and in a row like a v6 I power my rovers with it.

(P.S) I don't know how to do a screenshot so i might not be able to show you.

[Foxster]

I'm guessing the OP means a piston engine? If so, then I hesitate to say impossible but it would be rather unlikely. We need some movable or moving parts.

[panzer1b]

Closest i ever made to a stock piston engine was a paddlewheeler, that could drive on ground (very badly), or swim in water a little less worse then on land. The paddle was powered similarly to the turboprop engine somewhere around here (basically 2 jets pushing a structural panel setup, where the jets push that, which pushes axle, which transfers that thrust to a paddlewheel that then moves said boat.