Steam-powered Lada: first drive 

"Don't forget, safety is always number 2 priority!"

I'll bet that Lada's engine has never been cleaner than after that deep steam cleaning , not even when it was brand new...

These Russians are crazy in the best way imaginable!

Something you never want to hear when dealing with steam. “The tanks have gotten a bit puffy”. 🤣. Y’all stay safe.

When the apocalypse happens and there's no more gas, nobody will be laughing when this dude comes rolling up in his steam powered car

Add a pressure sensor that can pop a valve if the pressure gets too high, this way it would be less likely to blow up on you!

Now it just needs a steam whistle!

"The tanks have gotten a bit puffy..." translates precisely to "Byeeee!" This is as mad and brilliant as ever.

Run the exhaust into top of chimney at side as its escaping it causes a vacuum drawing the fire. Be roaring👍😁

This is, literally, an external combustion engine.

The fact that you actually got it to move under it’s own power; is impressive enough by itself! ...well done fellas 👍

As a stoker I can say that this is one of the most dangerous i've seen on RU-vid.

12:49 "No No No No, Davai Davai" *Translator* "Come on, stay with me." That is some very...creative translating.

"you can feel the power" **Car stalls on the hill** XD hahahahahha. Love this channel.

am ADDICTED to this channel !

and at night in your garage you can distill vodka with it

How come American RU-vidrs can not make videos 1 percent this cool?

This has got to be one of the funnest channels on RU-vid to watch. I honestly cannot think of anything they have not done to a Lada! So damn funny too! And I’m terribly jealous of their heavy snow falls. I had to sell my snowmobiles (sleds, snow machines) because we never get any damn snow here anymore. Anyway...awesome job Garage 54 guys!

"Maybe the engine is too small" So you litterally want us to beg for a new one with a bigger engine?

-In 2020 we will have flying cars! 2020:

No replacement for displacement, that's some artistic translation! TY BMI Russian.

I was planning on building a steam powered race car in the future. I had some ideas to convert a normal car engine like you did but also had some ideas to get around the lack of power (so you couldn't just get out of your car and just walk to the finish line to win the race) . One of the problems is running pressure through the intake manifold. If you manage to find a steel engine head you won't have to worry about this one but if the head is made from aluminum then the studs that hold the intake manifold will just rip out with the pressure I want to make. The only real difference in power between a steam engine and internal combustion engine is going to be related to the pressure pushing on the pistons is being made outside the combustion chamber. In theory, you make the same pressure that the gasoline creates and you'll have the same torque. The "amount" of steam is related to the rpm or speed of the engine with that same torque. I was going to use a small "steam generator" that uses propane torches placed in a circle around a small metal pipe (a very thick one to handle the pressure needed while also being red hot, because metal becomes soft at high temperatures). Then inject water as needed so the only thing needing to be kept hot is the pipe, no need to preheat all the water you carry. This would fit in the trunk, the gas tank replaced with a plastic water tank like that in a camper, and a BBQ propane tank to run the generator in the cab away from the burners. Not enough heat, add another circle of burners. Possibly up to 1 generator per cylinder. Last modification would be on the cam timing. Because of the compression cycle of the engine, if you timed the cam with a 1-1 ratio instead of a 1-2 (cam to crank rotation) you can open the intake valve every time the piston goes down and open the exhaust valve every time the piston goes up (more like a 2 stroke engine). Finally, the reason your car doesn't want to move is because by putting pressure on the intake valves, when the engine has a load on it, the pressure backed up in the intake is actually opening the closed valves and pressing on the pistons coming upwards (because of how the valves open) You are doing everything right up until the valve springs are literally the only thing that's moving the car. As soon as you put more pressure in the engine, you're pushing air into the cylinders that the pistons are trying to come up in.

Pin me when Jay Leno comes and buys this crazy thing

"Maybe the engine is too small." *A month later: Placing three steam engines into Lada samara.

I'm not scared of Russia in WW3, I'm scared of Russians after it.

Hey Bartender... I'll have a Piña-Coal-Lada...😏🍹

this man single-handedly defeated greta thunberg with those emissions

"He was found in the wreck with his hand on the throttle, scalded to death by the steam"

"we overlooked it on purpose"

we need a lada turned into a t34

These guys are my favorite Russians, crazy and cool in their own particular way. Great episode guys.

this channel deserves 1 millon subscribers, plus the effort to translate... grate job fella

if possible I would love to see a version 2!

Put more pipes inside the boiler like steam locomotives! For keep making steam so dont loose a lot of presure whyle drivi g

If you guys ever decide to revisit the steam idea, here's a few thoughts about it. 1) Your boiler is very unsafe, and others have addressed this - so make sure your boiler won't blow up 2) You can re-work the camshaft, so that it keeps the double lobes on the intake, but grind the exhaust lobes so they're round and don't activate the exhaust valves. Instead, drill a hole in the side of the cylinders, so that when the piston reaches BDC, the steam just exhausts through the port, like a 2-stroke gas engine 3) You don't want more displacement, you want less. Steam exerts a huge amount of pressure, and by using just 2 cylinders, you reduce the volume of steam needed, and increase the steam pressure on the 2 active cylinders. If you cut an engine in half, and use the rear 2 cylinders (running opposite each other), that's all you need.

Exploding those cylinders with higher pressure would give a spectalular view. I believe those things could make quite a damage!

2:16 goggles my dude.. damn. Then again, you're strapping a home made boiler to a Lada. Never mind, carry on :-)

WOW saludos desde argentina !! me encantan sus videos y sus cosas locas

This is one of the most innovative channels I've come across on RU-vid. Keep it up, guys!

Just think when the oil runs out this guy will have no problem in running his cars great work my friend just love all the crazy things you do and they all work good luck

They need to put a 300bar diving tanks and try it with that. They will get wheel spin. Like this so they can see.

9:46 that guy saw the steam tank swell and is backing off. :) I told you the shape isn't good for high pressure tanks, but did you listen? Noo...

Great job guys, very impressive for a small volume engine. Thanks for sharing and best regards from the UK.

Guess they haven't heard.. "Thou shalt not weld on a pressure vessel."

Next time you would build a nuclear reactor on the cargo area. :D

Much love from South Africa... MINDBLOWING CONTENT

Garage 54: things you always wondered, but never cared about. I love this channel

I will give you one idea for next engine: NUCLEAR

9:50 I saw those tanks swell, I thought oh, sugar honey iced tea...a BLEVE explosion is not fun for people around it

"Look at that we're flying!!!" - cameraman keeping up on foot. I love these guys.

much love from Canada !! you guys are awesome

You've made a pickup truck out of that Lada!

Your exhaust is supposed to help with the draw

Another massive success! Love this channel!

no click bait, tittle describes the video, love this channel

3:41 "the power man, you can feel the power" As the car stalls and starts rolling back downhill lol

You almost have a wood-gas setup there :) That actually works pretty well.

Man this is *revolutionary* , maybe the car industry will soon get onto this...

There really should be a safety valve on this thing, dear god. All steam engines should have a valve that automatically pops off at a certain pressure to maintain some safety. That's scary as hell.

"our precisely calibrated manometer seems to be on the fritz................"

Such a amazing channel.. share the love!

This is the craziest & coolest thing I've ever seen!

I love this channel. You guys rock-all the way from Nee York, USA

Can you show what the engine looks like inside after a ride?

power a turbo with the steam

Every project always blows up the previous one. Well, this one is actually a steam bomb.

Very well done! You can barely tell its not just a regular car.

PUT rail wheels on it. Put it on the rail line. Plus Steam Horn

Put the steam generator on a trailer, that way, with a minimum of changes, you can test steam power in different vehicles..

You guys at garage 54 give me so much to enjoy. its gotta be crazy fun to make so many frankencars or frankinladas. keep up the great work

these 3 videos were some seriously entertaining content. hell yeah.

Next: converting a locomotive into a Lada 😄

“A few easy modifications....”!

8 flywheels coming right up! Thanks for the translations.

Ale lokomotywa !!! super sprzet !!!

The "throttle" is more like a regulator in a train steam engine.

Imagine driving your cabrio behind this car.

👍😲 Dude! This car's the bomb! 💣

Simply amazing!!!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

exept the engine i would be sure that your "steam generator" would have : a safety valve, a water gauge glass and an feedwater inlet! would be a lot safer to drive around!

3:13 Looks like a Dacia Papuc

Love the video! You guys are crazy. Not sure how no one has died yet.

Great job on the Stanislav Steamer!

God this channel is so eastern European it hurts. *clicks next video *

Whistlindiesel and this guy should do a video together!!!

I've been waiting for this one!! 👍👍

Love you guys!

Who the hell owns a 5th gen Camaro in Russia, I must be missing something 😂🤔

Could there be an issue with valve timing

Super amazing wide screen video, the lada looks awesome as a 2 door truck ;)

So glad to see that you got it to run

Greta is gonna have a heart attack when she sees this

Greta: how dare y......ohhh.....sorry my mistake I leave now

Amazing! This is truly the car of the future. Soon you will understand it.

Thank you BMI Russian for all the translations love this channel

Make woodgas powered lada

0:44 Who thought their phone turned off(battery died)

Reminds me of the TV show "Revolution" where a school bus & a motorcycle were retrofitted with steam power to get around.

This is amazing... I love it

Greta have heart attack :D good job bratia