The ancient Zhiguli car is not suitable for ceremonial drives. I served, my dear, faithfully, rotten through and through, peeling off. Submissive to his fate, he prepared to sell it for scrap metal... Stop, the engine is intact, and the old man is running! It's a wreck, but it works. This means that the guys from Garage 54 have a cool object to experiment with. Mechanics from a real-life auto repair shop are great at repairing and tuning cars. But they are still researchers and testers!
What's great is that men are not without humor. They'll come up with something like this! This time we decided to see what would happen if the wheel was mounted directly on the crankshaft. Theoretically it’s clear: it’ll be a carousel for big boys. A tire installed across the body will pull the car in a circle. In fact, nothing came of it: the shaft speed was too high.
The logical solution is a reduction gearbox. Where is it lying around? Well, here it is, and not just any car, but from a Mercedes. We don't feel sorry. Installed according to all mechanical rules. We achieved a fourfold reduction in speed. Let's start it up. No, the speed is still crazy... What happened next, how the Zhigul behaved, see in the video that we bring to your attention with the permission of Vladislav Barashenkov. The author of the channel “Garage 54” promises viewers 15 fun minutes. But there are also a lot of useful things in a short film...
The Soviet tractor T-40AM, even in the “base”, is better than foreign SUVs
A tractor is primarily an agricultural technique. Such machines appeared precisely to replace horse and ox carts. The peasants quickly realized the advantages...
