Coil Springs Tires on G-Class Mercedes: One Russian Way of Going Places (Not College)
21 Apr 2024, 19:44 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / ‘What happens if rubber is replaced with solid steel wire of a suspension coil spring?’ is the question we didn’t know we needed an answer to
Tired of Mainstream Tires? Recycled DIY Airless Tires Are One Russian Way Forward
27 Mar 2024, 10:46 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Crumb rubber is made of tires; tires can be made of crumb rubber – that’s the perfect circle of life for a wheel’s outermost layer, Garage 54 edition
The Eight-Stroke Engine Is ICE Age's Real MVP, How Come No One Thought of It Until Now?
22 Mar 2024, 15:32 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / The Russian mechanics from Garage 54 have altered with an inline-four engine and changed the timing ratio to add four more piston strokes
Stupid-Proof PPF: Russians Coat Car in Recycled Tires, Test It With Air Cannon, Knife, Axe
16 Mar 2024, 12:32 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Crumb rubber paint protective coating is something no carmaker has previously thought of offering, but they should because it’s mad genius
Can This Russian Nut-and-Bolt Wrench Suspension Beat Air Springs? Yes, Very, Very Slowly
6 Mar 2024, 11:24 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / ‘If it’s stupid, but it works, it ain’t stupid,’ goes the old saying, and this is the spiritual mantra behind the Garage 54 mechanically regulated suspension
Burnout Level Russia: Snow-Drifting a Soviet-Age SUV on 1,200-Lb Cable Reel Wheels
28 Feb 2024, 13:01 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Anyone can drift a car on slippery surfaces, but how many people can do it with 1,200 lbs. of wooden spools on all four corners?
450-Lb Trunk Flywheel Is One Russian's Way To Save Fuel Since Physics Is Still Free There
25 Feb 2024, 21:50 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / In a throwback to childhood nostalgia, the Garage 54 mechanics fit an old Soviet Lada with a massive inertia wheel; the outcome is pretty impressive
Hummer H2 vs. UAZ 469 Is Off-Road Cold War, Badass Soviet Kicks American Rear
22 Feb 2024, 16:31 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / A communist all-terrain vehicle designed half a century ago is better in the muddy forests of Russia than a cheeseburger-haulin’ Hummer wannabe Chevrolet
Inline-Four Engine Gets Its Firing Order Rearranged Because Russia Doesn't Do Mainstream
18 Feb 2024, 22:00 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / I like more vibration from my engine, said absolutely no driver ever – until now. Garage 54 doesn’t abide by common practice; this experiment proves it
Russians Build AWD ATV With Drum Barrels Instead of Wheels, and It's So Stupid It's Cool
13 Feb 2024, 22:47 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Garage 54 is on a winter spree of mechanical ingenuity (or just bored beyond belief) and puts its wrenching best at work to outsmart the winter
No Winter Tires? No Worries! Just Glue Sand Over the Summer Ones, Say Russian Mechanics
3 Feb 2024, 19:41 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / The Garage 54 YouTube vloggers from Siberia put an old idea to a real-world applicability test and applied fine-grain sand to treated summer rubber compound
Soviet Ice Drifting: 30-Speed Lada With Two Gearboxes and a Honda Motorbike Engine
24 Jan 2024, 21:59 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / The Garage 54 mechanics built a snow-drift car from a Soviet sedan, a Honda CBR engine with a six-speed box, and a secondary five-speed transmission
Watch a Russian Four-Cylinder Engine With 18-Lb Lead Pistons Slap Itself to Death
14 Jan 2024, 00:28 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Russian vloggers machine pistons out of lead weighing five times more than regular aluminum ones; engine massacre is swift as physics takes a heavy toll
Russian Motor Hack 101: Frozen Solid Engine? Just Cook the Oil With an Induction Stove
3 Jan 2024, 21:03 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / When the going gets stuck by Siberian winter freeze, who you’re gonna call to heat things up? Garage 54 wrench hobbits, of course!
Direct-Power-Steering Crank-Bolted Wheel Is the Most Russian Idea of the Week
21 Dec 2023, 16:25 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / What’s the minimum amount of engine power to drive a crankshaft-driven wheel with enough force to spin a car around? No one cares, but Russians test it
Armchair Engineering (Russia Edition): DIY Canned-Polyurethane Engine Pistons Are Smokin'
17 Dec 2023, 14:57 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / YouTube vloggers from Novosibirsk fabricate a set of polymeric pistons for an internal combustion engine; what a surprise - it doesn’t run
Potholes, Mud, Gravel Roads, and Logic: 20" Ground Clearance Siberian Sedan Defies All
10 Dec 2023, 20:59 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Russian engineering knows no limits (good or bad) when it comes to getting over obstacles on the glorious path to automotive supremacy
Beat This, NASA! Russians Take 'Floating Axle' Literally, Put Tensegrity Rear End on Car
3 Dec 2023, 16:00 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / A team of mechanics and YouTubers from Siberia replace a car’s rear suspension system with a tensegrity assembly, and it works just fine
Sedan Into Coupe, Russian Edition: Cut a Car in Half Front To Back - Your Move, Hypercars
19 Jul 2023, 13:37 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / A team of mechanics from Siberia makes a two-seat, two-door Lada using out-of-the-box thinking; the darn thing runs and drives, but don’t try this at home
Missed an Oil Change, and the Engine Smokes? Pressure-Wash It, and It's Better Than New
10 Jul 2023, 14:06 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Russian piston nerds clean a filthy engine with nothing but water, and the results are beyond belief; it shows that water in the engine can be a good thing