9 Jun 2024, 20:59 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / A 24-u-joint driveshaft that goes over the car and back in is not something we see every lifetime, it grenades the second the revs go up (no one was in the car)
22 May 2024, 10:41 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Why should a steel wire control the throttle input from the driver when useful complications like fluid lines, pistons, and master cylinders exist?
15 May 2024, 11:40 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Russian mechanics delete the turbo, replace it with ram air induction, and test the acceleration performance of a first-gen Subaru Forester. Guess what’s wrong?
8 May 2024, 21:15 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / How to make an internal combustion engine turn the other way around is a question no one asked, but the boys from Garage 54 already have the answer
28 Apr 2024, 18:43 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / What’s the worst thing that can happen when one replaces conventional rubber tires with makeshift alternatives fabricated from 60d nails?
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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!
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