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[@rockyrivermushrooms529]

These guys are talented engineers

[@FrozenHaxor]

This is why soviets with slide rules achieved better results than Elon Musk today.

[@fts3865]

Nasdroviya

[@upoupil4012]

​@@FrozenHaxorelon musk give us nothing.....

[@fredjones554]

​@@FrozenHaxor check out the Russian computer that runs with water. Amazing

[@-A-Hybrid-Skunk-Productions-]

That was sooooooo awesome. It is so friggin epic seeing how shocks works. Thanks soooo much for sharing this video with Us Garage 54.

[@GrandePunto8V]

This is NOT how a shock works. They've just did a gas spring. Real shock has some valves in the piston. And are not completely filled with oil.

[@4BillC]

It's close enough though!

[@thatguyalex2835]

Heck yeah bro, the device worked well, and Garage 54 did a great demo of how cars absorb bumps and stuff. It would be even more friggin' epic if they broke the glass piston itself. :) Imagine the oil spewing out out at 90 psi (6 bar) or whatever the air or oil pressure is. I'm a man, we like when stuff fails*, as long as it isn't our own. That would add to the "shock" value, pun intended. *Disclaimer: Only in televised series or YT videos.

[@chiefdenis]

​@@GrandePunto8Vbecause they didn't design an engineering marvel like koni does doesn't disqualify their item from being a shock absorber

[@jayveevee]

Npc

[@randygandee9674]

These guys hit a homer every now and then

[@aech_two_oh]

If you ask me, every now and then is every upload

[@i_woke_up_in_a_new_buggati]

They gotta make a transparent Lada with all the other parts they made so far. It'll be like that transparent Honda s2000!

[@lokelaufeyson9931]

they are close to do it, only a few parts that need to be solved

[@MrBanaanipommi]

i wish for transparent distributor cap, i saw one for toyota corolla 4k engine in ebay once but not anymore... it was not cheap tho...

[@garycarpenter2932]

@@lokelaufeyson9931 the engine block they did wasn't 107%.. too bad too.

[@fryloc359]

​​@@MrBanaanipommithey did one, but I don't knnow if it's on the english channel or not. :edit: it's here. it was 8 months ago.

[@MrBanaanipommi]

@@fryloc359 forgot that lol, but i actually meant one to buy ;D

[@twocvbloke]

The air gap solution is basically like the spheres in Citroen hydraulic suspension (or the British Leyland Hydragas suspension), but there's an experiment for you, DIY hydraulic suspension, whether like the Citroen hydraulic system where you can raise and lower the car, or BL's Hydragas "set & forget" setup, retrofitting them to something that lives its' life on coil or leafsprings would be a fun test to see the difference... :P

[@Cheeky-Biscuit]

Sorry if this sounds ignorant but couldn't they solve the pocket issue by turning it upside down and allowing the air to flow upwards?

[@twocvbloke]

​@@Cheeky-Biscuit They probably could have, but as with all things experimental, it was never going to be a perfect design, plus they were trying to keep the oil as air free as possible so that it looked good on camera being all clear, thus separating the two sections... :)

[@Cheeky-Biscuit]

@@twocvbloke fair enough thanks for the explanation

[@MrtalentedReid]

Amazing

[@Phos9]

@@Cheeky-Biscuit The rod changes the volume inside the main cylinder so that wouldn't work. Their solution is how some normal shocks work. Cheaper shocks will sometimes just allow an air pocket within the shock. Expensive shocks have an extra little reservoir to contain the pressurized gas.

[@user-gw8xb6zx9l]

You guys are the greatest it gives people with no mechanical background an insight to how these things work. Its also fantastic experience for the young mechanics ,they are terrific. Keep up the good work and warmest greatings to you all from Melbourne Australia.

[@alexcorrea8855]

AGREED!!! 👍

[@troysomething2097]

I've never seen or heard of anyone using a mig welder to cut glass. Very cool and interesting

[@epictoast6727]

I had my safety squints on the whole time

[@bill6255]

Yet another amazing video! Bonus point IMHO for being thorough with the foaming issue! Such easy knowledge transfer.

[@kleetus92]

You're welcome! I peppered the last video a bunch with gas charging

[@dimitar4y]

AYO that mig welder hack is out of this world, why didn't I think of that?!

[@dimitar4y]

@@antonszvezdovs ouch. At least it got cauterized?

[@rockerforlife194]

You guys are GREAT! And funny. Love your channel from here in Missouri, United States. Keep up the great work!

[@fuse8052]

Excellent video. Saw things I'd never have thought about or believed. I look forward to your next video. Keep them coming guys.

[@RandysRides]

This was a really cool episode. Ingenuitive and informative. :)

[@JordonRenn93]

As someone who builds aftermarket shocks for a living, I appreciate this video so much 😂😂😂❤❤❤ Edit: @7:30 the term for that is "cavitation" and can happen even when no air is present. When the air rushes through the piston, it created areas of extremely low pressure along the trailing edge of the holes. It's such low pressure that it makes the fluid turn to it's gas form.

[@jasonbirch1182]

Very cool. The shaft displacing oil is an aspect I wouldn't have considered. Now I know why the small diaphragm was necessary in the RC car shocks we built back when I was younger. And also I understand why more air pressure stiffens the forks on a dirt bike. I couldn't understand it before, since the air isn't acting on the shock piston with a bypass hole in it. The air disapating in the oil is cavitation.

[@Christophe_L]

Dirt bikes have air springs which indeed are acting on the stanchions. This is not the same setup, the springs on this car you can see behind the shock. EDIT: i am an idiot motorcycles dont usually use airsprings.

[@jasonbirch1182]

@@Christophe_L no. They have coil springs in the front forks. The increase in pressure is reducing cavitation to stifen damping. It doesn't raise ride height like Increasing spring rate would.

[@Christophe_L]

@@jasonbirch1182 While a lot of road bikes have coil springs, most dirt bikes have airsprung forks. But it could be the case that your bike in particular had a coil fork in which case I fucked up :) EDIT: nope, motorcycles dont usually use airsprings.

[@jasonbirch1182]

@@Christophe_L I'm not aware of any air sprung forks. The newest set I have is off a 200(?) yzf426 so maybe some newer bikes are, but I don't think that you are correct. Edit. After doing some quick research, you are not correct. There are some air sprung forks available but not factory stuff. It's experimental high end race motorcross damper builders trying air. They aren't practical for many reasons. Leaks, condensation from refilling with moist air. Heat rapidly affecting pressure. Non linear spring rate as compression increases. Springs are great. They just are a little heavy. So they keep trying to make air work.

[@Christophe_L]

@@jasonbirch1182 You are indeed correct and I apologise and self-flagelate profusely. I will edit my comments to reflect this. I was going by my MTB knowledge (where air forks have become more prevalent than coilsprung ones), and knowledge passed on from not very trustworthy sources plus lazy googling. I apologise again!!

[@raymondsprengelmeyer1278]

I enjoy your videos very much, you really have some skilled people at Garage 54!

[@largebills337]

Excellent work. I am very impressed. I would love to see four of those on a lifted offroad vehicle. Now that I have seen such good results I am sure this type of setup could work on a rock crawler type of vehicle. A high speed offroad vehicle such as one that might be used in the Paris Dakar rally might be too much but the cool factor would be out of this world. Great job fellas 😎👍

[@lesklower7281]

Well done again love this transparent experiments on various functions on a car keep them coming

[@alexcorrea8855]

I always love watching these!!! So interesting the things that are thought up, and then you get to see it in action, that’s really cool love these!!!! Thank you for the time and info!!!

[@alexcorrea8855]

Matter fact, I’m so inspired, I’m going to try this on my wife’s car, lol!!!

[@taylorgarcia5246]

This is exactly how an IFP (internal floating piston) shock works except that there are flexible washers/ shims in the main piston that also control oil flow for compression and rebound. The fluid cavitation doesn’t allow the shock to dampen as well so nitrogen pressure is added to the IFP chamber and the result is very well portrayed in this video. Excellent job and video!

[@J.O._Explores]

What a great experiment! One of the best so far! Keep the good work up!

[@Roccoo]

I learned more about shocks in this video than I did rebuilding several sets of DRZ shocks over the last few years!

[@trenthollifield6969]

This channel is worth its time in gold thanks for all the hard work for us

[@bendoherty7721]

Using the mig wire got a like straight away. Awesome idea

[@seanreber9064]

man the sound track for this one was fantastic

[@joeyf504327]

how hot did the shock get? Shocks work by converting linear motion into heat to dispense the energy of the shocks.

[@GrandePunto8V]

But they have just did a gas spring. Real shock has some valves in the piston, oil is pumped via orifice (there is your source of heating). And almost 100% fill is a mistake.

[@brandonjones4666]

That’s now how shocks work.. heat is a an unwanted byproduct. Watch the video again to see how shocks work.

[@mediocreman2]

Great video! It was much stronger than I expected.

[@mikebarry8431]

Just started following you guys, love the channel and the cool stuff built! Keep up the great work.

[@kentworch]

Very nice. Awesome to see the inside of these in action.👍👍

[@vinicius9670]

Great episode! Now the next step is to make a dual tube shock absorber!

[@nickrudd2568]

That has to be one of the coolest things ive seen through. Top job my friends.

[@cengizhanyildirim8380]

This channel is so underrated. I honestly rarely comment and like any videos but this channel always deserves it. Thanks guys.

[@the0leman]

This is how a front strut on most aircraft work. I like what these guys do, thinking outside the box without losing the box.

[@montey1017]

Machining that piece of flat steel into the cylinder caps was great lol. Love the content.

[@davidbrennan5]

This channel is great, I love the backyard engineering.

[@reedstemen]

Thank you for this awesome content, I’m happy you guys can keep this show going given how the world is.

[@nurnebensaechlich]

The glass cutting is flippin awsome so simple but genius

[@sachak]

fokkit that was epic! DAMN. And such a cool colour for the oil. Well done guys.

[@Workerbee-zy5nx]

Cool video, see through shocks are interesting.

[@simonallan9941]

It really needs a one way valve with the biggest hole in the piston letting it move downwards easier than upward.

[@chrisstratton3430]

Outstanding work!

[@electroman1556]

that's why i love this channel! no one can beat this channel more amazing ideas!

[@wtmf80]

This one was awesome!

[@FijiLaw]

Another mind blowing vid, hats off to you vlad 🫡

[@sethvandyke4453]

so cool how you engineered around the air problem

[@busyguy7479]

well guys you all did it again with this idea. not only was this fun it is functional as well good job . well thought out guys.

[@gabrielv.4358]

15:08 Impressive! The bottom end even moves apart from the upper part, impressive!

[@stevenstoj9445]

Cool man, this channel is great. Donno where the mad ideas come from but keep it up. You should try twin charging a lada 🏎 cheers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@MichaelThomas-wb2xu]

Another great interesting show! Thanks for the view of a shock's working innards. An extra seal silicon-ed in at the top would get rid of that air pocket.!

[@GrandePunto8V]

But...they've just did a gas spring. Real shock has some valves in the piston!

[@user-kh2yl6nn3l]

Absolutely a 107% success Vlad . Because those of us that aren't shock designers learned something about shock absorber technology here . This was a real scientific experiment . Good job guys . :)

[@NotProFishing]

That mig gun to cut the tube worked better than I could have imagined

[@StarlightCipher]

That was super cool and informative

[@x9x9x9x9x9]

Good job guys! Awesome video.

[@georget5056]

"We've put some extra load onto the rear end." Cut to Sergei chilling in the back on the chassis rails 😂

[@zeendaniels5809]

Ladas sure are fun, huh? Excellent video.

[@chnapo1]

This channel is incredible!

[@Bourinos02]

21:04 Now I can say that I've finally seen oil cavitating :D Thanks so much!

[@MathieuTechMoto]

Sooo very good as always !

[@mizzomentall]

Sick Channel G54. I finally know how it works

[@danangretno99]

Maann I love this channel. This channel helping me so much than my teacher 😂😂

[@daveski4496]

True science in the works. Love it!

[@ILOVEBACONBOY2018]

Gosh you make quality content, I thank you!

[@anibalbabilonia1867]

👌😂👍Amazing! This guy’s can built anything for car’s! That was awesome!

[@michaelschwartz9485]

Damn you guys are awesome!!

[@warifaifai]

You can see the bubbles show up in t he upper oil chamber when it compresses too much haha AMAZING job guys

[@nonameavailable7914]

Awesome great content guys keep it up

[@Hydrogenblonde]

Great video !

[@maxiflow8695]

Son increibles, muchachos!!!! excelente trabajo!!!

[@alvinfernando6906]

Genius race , love it, especially the highest gear race🤣

[@gacherumburu9958]

Great experiment! 👍👍

[@MezzysAutomotive]

Ever since i showed my automotive tech teacher these videos.. we implemented these videos in the program

[@txwombat7826]

ingenious way of cutting the tube.

[@sgottoboni]

Awesome experiment.👍

[@gabrielv.4358]

INSANELY AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@danielbuckman2727]

That was an awesome video. I think I need glass shocks!

[@Roger-hq1yt]

Nice, one of the more practical experiments youve done.

[@Brebeanualexcatalin]

This was soooo satisfiyng!

[@TrueBlueEG8]

I want some G54 shocks right now🤣

[@vaux_wolf4281]

These guys are ridiculously talented

[@gristlevonraben]

i agree with others here, very awesome to see indise of a shock that is moving! thank you!

[@GrandePunto8V]

OK, but this was just a gas spring (not proper shock absorber).

[@mooklocklear1182]

That was pretty darn kool

[@garagecedric]

Great visualisation of damper cavitation !

[@alex84896]

Keep up The great work man so funny

[@ronbradshaw7404]

Very interresting!. I thought the floating piston would have had more stroke tho!. What you did is a "De-Carbon" shock principle. They inflate the secondary chamber with Nitrogen tho, to keep the pressure more stable with temperature. The air that mysteriously appears is in fact Cavitation. It is BAD for a steady dampening action.

[@Andy-df5fj]

You can compensate for the rod area by making the piston equal area which means making the rod go through both end caps instead of just one.

[@volvo09]

That shock came out great, good work!

[@GrandePunto8V]

Where's the "shock"? This is gas spring mostly.

[@volvo09]

@@GrandePunto8V the plastic disc on the end of the rod... it has holes drilled in it that let the oil flow through. It's a shock absorber. If it was a gas spring there would only be one piston, and it would be all air.

[@KT_One]

Please build four of these, in steel, and give it a test. The large volume dampers seem great!

[@marcoandressalcedoherrera7938]

Great video

[@maxhammontree3169]

Excellent!

[@GP-Getriebetechnik]

Great content

[@igorcossetto4779]

Top test, Bravo🏆!

[@therobb5738]

I would've taken some hose clamps or zip-ties and lined the tube every couple inches or so with it. Not so tight to disrupt the inner shock, but enough to support the pressure in the tube. Otherwise, this is fantastic and I love seeing this work. I thought the gas buffer at the bottom added a nice, high-performance touch. And the guy riding in the trunk, had the BEST seat in the car!

[@TranceFur]

Looks like the glass tube didn’t need any support, so the zip ties would be completely unnecessary.

[@rastaralph7154]

It would be interesting to see all the shock's like that one and test it with speed and hard cornering and braking to see if it's better than conventional shocks.👍💚💛❤️

[@rotorblade9508]

nice setup. the air can also have a spring effect

[@Universal.G]

very cool episode

[@HChandler2010]

The cavitation in the top is neat

[@plupyduplupydu1369]

Unbeliveveable-what did you just do-pushing it to the limit one more time- even more props to translator

[@RolandWalper]

Great idea!

[@skyler9988]

That glass cutting is genius

[@androzetga1916]

Incredible empirical science❤