Medium Quality Carburetor
A medium quality carburetor for a combustion engine. Mixes air and fuel to the proper ratio.
The Medium Quality Carburetor engine part in Rust is tier 2 and raises a modular car engine's top speed and fuel economy. It fits the engine of the Cockpit With Engine Vehicle Module (70 kW) and Engine Vehicle Module (95 kW). You craft it at a Level 2 Workbench, and its blueprint costs 20 scrap to research.
About the Medium Quality Carburetor
The engine runs only when every one of its slots holds a part and none of them is broken. It has 100 condition, and damage to the engine module wears down the parts inside it, spread at random among them.
On the tech tree it sits behind 7 other unlocks: Low Quality Carburetor, Engine Vehicle Module, Modular Car Lift, Small Rechargeable Battery, Large Solar Panel, Water Wheel and 1 more. Only one vendor sells it: the Vehicle Parts for 65 scrap.
Engine stats from the Medium Quality Carburetor
With parts of this tier in every slot that raises top speed and fuel economy, an undamaged engine reaches 85% of its best there. Each engine stat is a quarter the engine module's health and three quarters the average quality of the parts that raise it, and this tier counts for 80%.
How to craft the Medium Quality Carburetor
Crafting one takes 5 seconds at a Level 2 Workbench and costs 100 × Metal Fragments.
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How to get the Medium Quality Carburetor blueprint
Research it for 20 scrap, or unlock it on the Level 1 tech tree for 8 Blueprint Fragments in total.
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1 Blueprint Fragment Unlocked 8 How to repair the Medium Quality Carburetor
A full repair at a Repair Bench costs 21 × Metal Fragments, and you need its blueprint.
×21 What the Medium Quality Carburetor recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 50 × Metal Fragments for one.
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Cockpit With Engine Vehicle Module
Engine Vehicle ModuleThe car modules with an engine, where a part like this one goes.
Where to find the Medium Quality Carburetor
Green Vehicle Parts Crate drops it, at 28%.
Shops that hand it out
Vehicle PartsShop×1for65 (32–130)ScrapStats checked against the Rust game files on 14 November 2026.
