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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Timbeeer! Log-Frame Car Is the Most Russian Thing You'll See Today Because 'Hold My Vodka'
23 Aug 2023, 10:36 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / A bunch of YouTuber mechanics makes a running, driving automobile on a wooden frame, in the forest, in 24 hours, then take it out for a spin
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
Straight Outta Russia: Old Lada Sedan Gains Square Sliding Front Wheels Because Why Not?
25 Jun 2023, 09:31 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Russian mechanics build motionless square wheels, put them on a car, and take it for a spin; sometimes physics isn’t enough to repel out-of-the-box engineering
Russian Vlogger-Mechanics Smelt Cans and Forks for Pistons; Engine Destruction Is Swift
17 Jun 2023, 21:33 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / A Siberian team of automotive YouTubers tried their hands at homemade aluminum pistons; the test-drive session is short, fragmented, and predictable
Half-Wheeled Car With Rebar-Reinforced Tires Is As Smooth as Barbed Wire – Because Russia
23 Mar 2023, 22:00 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / A team of Siberian vloggers modified a front-wheel drive automobile to test the functionality of the half-wheel locomotion; results are inconclusive
Cars of Oymyakon – What Does It Take To Keep Them Running in Extreme Cold
1 Jan 2022, 07:00 UTC · By: Sebastian Toma / Having your windshield freeze is no fun, but imagine living in the world's coldest inhabited settlement. People still use vehicles there. This is how they do it
The E-Transit Went to Ford’s Vehicle Boot Camp, Here’s What It Had To Endure
24 Jun 2021, 07:54 UTC · By: Vlad Radu / Ford's popular commercial vehicle is getting an all-electric powertrain but had go through a series of grueling tests before hitting the road