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Stupid-Proof PPF: Russians Coat Car in Recycled Tires, Test It With Air Cannon, Knife, Axe
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
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
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
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

 
Inline-Four Engine Gets Its Firing Order Rearranged Because Russia Doesn't Do Mainstream
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
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
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
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

 
This Ugly Russian Space Shoe Could Have Stolen America's Thunder
This Ugly Russian Space Shoe Could Have Stolen America's Thunder

15 Jan 2024, 14:14 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Animated video briefly brings back one of the glorious projects of 1960s Russia, the MiG-105 spaceplane that would have competed with the Space Shuttle

 
Watch a Russian Four-Cylinder Engine With 18-Lb Lead Pistons Slap Itself to Death
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
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!

 
Russian Christmas Spirit Is DUI: Siberians Drink and Drive To Prove Why We Shouldn't
Russian Christmas Spirit Is DUI: Siberians Drink and Drive To Prove Why We Shouldn't

26 Dec 2023, 20:09 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / A bunch of YouTubers from Siberia set out to test what driving under the influence does to one’s ability to maneuver a vehicle; the experiment was successful

 
Direct-Power-Steering Crank-Bolted Wheel Is the Most Russian Idea of the Week
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'
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

 
Beat This, NASA! Russians Take 'Floating Axle' Literally, Put Tensegrity Rear End on Car
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

 
Myasishchev M-55: A Retired High-Altitude Soviet Spy Plane That Might Make a Comeback
Myasishchev M-55: A Retired High-Altitude Soviet Spy Plane That Might Make a Comeback

1 Dec 2023, 03:58 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / This is the low-down on the mysterious Myasishchev M-55, the distinctly Soviet answer to a high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft.

 
M1A1 Abrams Tanks Spotted Near Ukranian Front Lines, Is the Jig Up For Russia?
M1A1 Abrams Tanks Spotted Near Ukranian Front Lines, Is the Jig Up For Russia?

28 Nov 2023, 21:09 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The road that led to M1 Abrams tanks arriving in Ukraine is one paved in perpetual controversy and explosive U.S. Congressional politics.

 
Ukrainian Soldiers Capture Russian T-72 Tank, Call Customer Support When it Breaks
Ukrainian Soldiers Capture Russian T-72 Tank, Call Customer Support When it Breaks

2 Oct 2023, 16:05 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / A report first broken by Forbes details how one group of Ukranian soldiers dial a Russian tech support helpline when a captured T-72B3 variant went on the fritz

 
Seized Alfa Nero Is Costing Taxpayers $28,000 a Week Just to Keep Mold Out of the Cabins
Seized Alfa Nero Is Costing Taxpayers $28,000 a Week Just to Keep Mold Out of the Cabins

30 Sep 2023, 00:30 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The controversial Oceanco build captured last year has turned into a money pit for the local taxpayer – and there’s no light at the end of the tunnel

 
California Officials Explain Why Gas Prices Went Up
California Officials Explain Why Gas Prices Went Up

23 Sep 2023, 13:25 UTC · By: Florin Amariei / Filling up is expensive in California and the neighboring states. People were righteously upset about it. Now, we are provided with the answers