Engine Swapping

Engines can be swapped between the different vehicles in game.

#### **Moped Engine:**

A small 2-stroke power unit. Can be swapped to other vehicles. However, to start the car, you have to push it first, then seat and start the engine. The performance is the worst of all engines, but it's the most fuel efficient.

#### **Pannonia Engine:**

A larger 2-stroke engine than the Ebatta. Unlike the Ebatta engine, it is capable of powering a car (slowly) and does not require a push start. Can be swapped to the Ebatta, but with a much lower top speed due to its low RPM limit. The kick starter can take several tries to start the engine.

#### **Trabant 601 Engine:**

The weakest car engine available is slow in the Trabant and becomes even more under-powered when transplanted into larger vehicles. Its sole advantage is that it is air cooled and can keep a Skoda or Lada running if you have no water available. Can be used to power a moped but top speed is worse than the moped engine, due to the engine's lower RPM limit. Installing this engine in the Pannonia will provide plenty of extra power at the cost of fuel consumption.

#### **VW Beetle Engine:**

The most powerful air-cooled engine available, has equivalent horsepower to the Skoda engine but slightly more torque. Installing it in the Trabant greatly increases acceleration and top speed (120km/h on normal wheels), and does not require a gas/oil mix as it is a four-stroke engine, but sticks through the hood. Can be installed in the moped but suffers the same problems as the Trabant engine. An excellent backup engine for any car with an empty/rusty radiator. Installing this in the Pannonia provides gratuitous amounts of power and lots of wheel spin.

#### **Škoda 100 Engine:**

A medium-powered engine. This power plant is a downgrade for the Lada. While it is more powerful than the Trabant's standard engine, the Trabant has no place to install a radiator so this water cooled unit will rapidly overheat.

#### **VAZ-2101 Engine:**

More powerful than the Škoda's engine, making it a good upgrade. The Trabant again suffers from having no option to install a radiator to cool the Lada engine if installed.

#### **Lada 2105 Engine:**

More powerful than the older VAZ engine, a good choice for all water cooled cars.

#### **Dacia 1300 Engine:**

A quiet and powerful engine, a good upgrade for the Škoda.

#### **Barkas/Wartburg Engine:**

A decent high-torque engine, similar to the VW Golf Diesel with a little less performance. Another good upgrade for the Skoda, but requires 3-5% oil mixed with fuel.

#### **VW Golf Engine (Gasoline):**

Alongside the 2105's, this is one of the most modern engines available, brought to production shortly before or even during the apocalypse, since some the specific Golf engines depicted in the game were only made available after the time that the Steel Pants radio host claims the apocalypse started (1979, also the year the 2105 was brought to production). That is not to say the Golf and 2105's engines are equal, however, since the 2105 engine available in the game is the smaller of the options produced (it is the 1.3L instead of the 1.5L also available in real life), while the Golf is the largest of the options produced (1.8L instead of 1.1L). This makes this engine considerably more powerful and the best upgrade choice for those who wish to stick to gasoline but still want more speed. It is, however, not as fuel efficient as some other engines, namely due to the previously mentioned larger size.

This engine and it's diesel brother are also notable for having only 4 litres of oil space, in comparison to the usual 5 litres of other engines. This means it needs less oil to be able to run, but also means you carry 1 less litre of oil around for free. This has very little impact on gameplay besides for slightly increasing the difficulty of swapping to other engines, since you need to add more oil rather than just transfer it from one to the next.

To tell this engine apart from it's diesel counterpart, look for the large air filter on top. If it only has a cable in the same spot, it is a diesel and not a gasoline engine. This engine does not spawn on the Caddy, which only comes with a diesel.

In conclusion, this is a fast and inefficient engine which is a good choice if you don't want the diesel bus engine and wheels, but still want greater speed.

#### **VW Golf Engine (Diesel):**

One of the most fuel efficient engines in the game, this 1.6L diesel engine is a wonderful choice for those who care about efficiency but do not want to entirely sacrifice speed, since it's torquey performance, while admittedly slightly worse than all other water cooled engines besides the old Skoda's in absolute speed, still allow for very competitive performance. It is also a wonderful choice if you wish to eventually swap to the truck or bus, and want to focus on carrying or already benefit from carrying as much diesel as possible instead of bothering with gasoline until you are able to swap to your preferred vehicle.

It is also worth noting that diesel is more likely to spawn in large quantities in barrels than gasoline is, making it a good choice of fuel for those who wish to stock up on fuel to move great distances without stopping, since visiting a few cargo ships will very likely lend you a *very* large amount of diesel.

This engine can be identified by the lack of a large air filter on top. It always spawns on Caddies, since they do not come with the gasoline engine, but may also spawn randomly on the world or on standard Golfs, just like it's more powerful and less efficient gasoline fuelled brother.

#### **Bus Engine:**

A large, powerful, water-cooled diesel unit. To get the best performance from this engine when installing it in a car, bus wheels should be fitted to the car's drive axle. This will modify the car's gearing to better suit the bus engine.

#### **IFA W50 Engine:**

A second large, water-cooled diesel engine added in the June 2021 Update, this motor is significantly taller than all other engines; it will scrape the ground when swapped into a bus, making it undrivable. When swapped into a car, you must put on bus wheels in order to keep the oil pan from dragging on the ground. Once equipped, cooled, and fueled properly, it is a noticeably faster engine than all gasoline options. The Bus engine is still the faster of the two diesel options and is easier to equip and use, but the truck engine does get better fuel economy.

#### **Plymouth Fury Engine:**

The biggest, most powerful gasoline engine. Installing this engine requires a radiator, otherwise it WILL overheat in a matter of a few seconds.

   Lada fitted with diesel bus engine.A Trabant engine installed in a Škoda.A Lada engine fitted to a ŠkodaTruck Engine Swapped into a ŠkodaTruck Engine Oil Pan ground clearance issue overcome by equipping Bus Tires.Ebatta swapped with a bus engine