2nd transmissions were used a lot in home built off road trucks, w/a shortened wheelbase used up here in Northern New England US of A for logging duties.
A lot of motorhomes use a overdrive unit Mounted behind the transmission and there's a company that builds them called "gear vendor" essentially, it gives you an overdrive gear for every foward gear so you would have 1st 1 overdrive 2nd 2nd overdrive And so on It gives you a lot of options including using a much higher Final gear ratio for accelerating and it gives you an additional overdrive gear on the high end so that you have better acceleration without robbing you of your top end. Gear vendor builds them for anything from tow rigs to drag racers and rock crawlers. Drag racers love to use the old school two speed power glides because they are bulletproof and putting a gear vinder behind them allows them to have two overdrive gears one for each gear.
@@Arhange1790 it's not really a customer car. It was actually built by (and for) the team over at the "Drift Garage 54" channel, which is one of the numerous Russian language channels under the Garage 54 umbrella that aren't being translated to English.
Its not that easy to drive since you need to learn the new gearbox style and two gear selectors. My issue is mostly running on certain gear most of the time. For offroad truck this makes sense as you are using whole range pretty much, but daily driver not so much. Still lovely little contraption and i wish some company made cheap couple gears and reverse boxes, but nope those are hella expensive what little is out there. Secondly this would never be road legal here. Just repair welding the subframe is automatic failure in yearly inspection. Seeing this, engineer would get brain aneurism and cause of this only place to use in is on the offroad side, maybe utility vehicle, but that also means it being diesel, witch there is very few around and completely out of price range of average joe.
One popular modification in the Volkswagen community is to take a Suzuki GSXR-1300 Hayabusa engine and mount it in a MK1 Golf [Rabbit in the US]. The engine fits perfectly, since it is approximately the same size as the Volkswagen EA827 engine the car came with, and it is easy to fabricate adapter plates. Since the early Golf was between 1800 and 2100 pounds, this 200 hp engine turns the little car into a raging screaming beast that runs with V8 Mustangs and Camaros.
Is this Garage 54?? This is a legit build. Incorporating a second transmission is nothing new but engineering it for this purpose is a stroke of genius. I would question matching up the gear ratios but it's probably fine in a Lada and makes the whole project especially interesting. That fabrication work is also no joke. You guys seriously stepped it up this time, there's real potential here . Please keep this project going.
@Garage54 thank y'all for doing this, my dad uncle and couple others THEORIZED about 39 years ago that will work, but to MANY mouth runners discouraged this and was dropped, thank y'all all for proving ANYTHING CAN BE DONE WITH BRAIN AND ELBOW GREASE
I use to drag race mini's at Santa Pod in the UK 🇬🇧. I put in a blown small block Chevy +200hp nitrous. Put out 1200hp through a 3-speed box, in a car that weighed 1300lb/600kg. It would do a 1/4 mile in 7.7, and 0-60 in 1.3 seconds. Now I'm old and grey, and nothing seems exciting anymore.
Plenty of Citroen 2CVs out there fitted with motorbike engines, the joy it must bring when audi tailgaters are left in the dust by a french duck must be immense, only ever seen them in videos, but the cars being so lightweight, they're pretty damned fast when the loud pedal is shoved... :P
I call this a 112% success, looking forward to seeing more of this project. Also show how the clutch is actuation is set up. Cheers from Montreal Canada.
Very well done project! By taking out a lot of front weight and having a clutch-less transmission I think you this is a good start for a Lada rally car build. Please do more videos with this car!
You *will* need a dry sump system. The Oil will vet skoshed to the side because the engine is no longer leaning whilst taking a turn. This will probably cause oil starvation if not taken care of.
Hell yeah. Keep this car progressing. Nice clean good sounding full length exhaust would be awesome. Try keeping the bike trans in a lower gear and shift the car trans. It would be a great comparison or project to find out what gear combinations work best for all around fun, drag ET, drift, autocross and daily. Aloha from Maui, Hawaii.
sick build. just a warning though, motorcycle engines and their oil pan are designed for leaning during cornering. if you thrash the car hard in corners it will starve the engine of oil and lead to spun bearings. a dry sump is the way to go unfortunately. superfastmatt has done the same in a honda s600 chassis. keep up the good work.
If you can somehow get hold of it in Russia, perhaps you might want to swap a GR Yaris motor into the Lada. It's 1.5 liter and produces over 250 HP. Alternatively, perhaps a Fiat 595 Abarth engine might be a better fit...and probably more appropriate, since the Lada is just a Fiat 124.
Now you're going to have to see what it's like on the track how fast does it actually go and how quick does it have between the start and stops compared to the original setup
Hard times for everyone the world over. But know this some of us ordinary Westerners love Russian people and we love you garage 54. Thank you for all the amazing videos from an Englishman who just wants peace and fun with cars...
It looks brilliant! sounds awesome and actually works great! i imagine the engines gearbox will have to be strenghtened just because of the weight of the car.. i imagine the clutch should need upgrading too due to the weight of the car it has to move..
I would have thought you could have made a transfer case ( sort of to change from chain to shaft driven and perhaps halve incorporated a reverse gear! So you could utilise the motorcycle gearbox??? Just an idea, love your show and can do attitude is wild!!!
Rodney Dangerfield mixed with a truck driving semi operator that owns his Lada car speed shop. Awesome! I knew this was a great channel to keep viewing. Great work
If you ever take something like this on a track or anything you will have to use a dry sump because the oil pan is not meant to be level in a corner all of the oil will leave the pump inlet on a motorcycle engine but adding a dry sump could be a good video idea.
Check if you need to add some baffles to the oil pan or modify the oil pick up or something. Maybe it is going to have oil starvation issues when you turn left or right (similar to what happens when you do a prolonged wheelie on some bikes = turn left in your case).
The most crazy and wonderfull swap ever. And good manufacture of the all artesanal pieces and modifications. I am cuban, and doit many modifications in to a lada cars but this its amaizing congratulations 👌🏼👌🏼
Cheers rfom Finland. I have always wanted to build something like old fiat 127, moscvits or lada with this kind of engine. Making chassis super light and putting hayabusa engine would be build of dreams. Then later maybe even turbo hayabusa to get 300-400hp range. Great work here!👍🏻
might be a nice setup to put in shorty , thats a verry light car or build a lotus 7 replica with the thermoformed plastic bodyparts one thing with motorcycle engines is that the clutch basket tends to get damaged from the clutchplates hitting it with more force , causes the teeth of the clutches to make divits in the aluminium and over time it doesnt release as good
Totally awesome ! Car enthusiasts in every part of the world can appreciate this. Speaking of which, I wonder what certain car collectors would pay to own a build like this?
THIS WOULD HAVE gone WELL with that red 'Shorty' 2 door Lada you did (the one you fitted a full wooden exhaust/Machine gun exhaust). Being a lighter vehicle, (without all the speakers lol), it could have been QUICK! Especially when you see vids on old Fiat 1267/127s & Smartfor2 & classic Minis fitted with 1200/1300/1400cc motorcycle engines!!! 😉👌 😎🇬🇧
Using parts of a second trans to add reverse and an odd low range is actually pretty genius.
2nd transmissions were used a lot in home built off road trucks, w/a shortened wheelbase used up here in Northern New England US of A for logging duties.
A lot of motorhomes use a overdrive unit Mounted behind the transmission and there's a company that builds them called "gear vendor" essentially, it gives you an overdrive gear for every foward gear so you would have
1st
1 overdrive
2nd
2nd overdrive
And so on
It gives you a lot of options including using a much higher Final gear ratio for accelerating and it gives you an additional overdrive gear on the high end so that you have better acceleration without robbing you of your top end.
Gear vendor builds them for anything from tow rigs to drag racers and rock crawlers. Drag racers love to use the old school two speed power glides because they are bulletproof and putting a gear vinder behind them allows them to have two overdrive gears one for each gear.
**6 reveres gears
yeah i was gonna say thats quite an outcome
The gear ratios of the bike box and the weight of an automobile usually don't match well with a motorcycle engine and box.
This is unironically the best engine swap I've ever seen!
Exactly, and with two gearboxes its all terrain Lada 😄
Sound of changing gears, almost like in WRC 😉
Lol?
@@joe125ful yes?
Try to put the engine in trunk So can be mid engine layout ❤
@@valentinuiliqnow6198 Put 1 engine in the front and another in the back, make it AWD
Now put the lada motor into a super bike.
😂
Yesss, this! 😂
Don’t tempt them! 😂
just the drop the 'super' from superbike
😂😂😂😂😂
This was one of the first projects you've done that doesn't feel like a throwaway project. This has real potential.
It is a customer car, so thats why they build it with very good quality.
"Very good quality" hahahaha
Yeah and painting the whole engine bay was a nice touch.
@@veightrwd8828 yes, but for the video it would have been better in white to better see what was going on.
@@Arhange1790 it's not really a customer car. It was actually built by (and for) the team over at the "Drift Garage 54" channel, which is one of the numerous Russian language channels under the Garage 54 umbrella that aren't being translated to English.
We need to see this vehicle again in summer time for a speed and acceleration test! 🔥
I thought same thing! Put a roll cage in it for safety and go to that airstrip they use. It could get really interesting and FUN
They need to rest it on a ice track it will be quite the fun!
this is the Russian summer time! 🤣
The mind boggles how well you've done this, it looks incredibly easy to drive considering the amount of engineering involved.
Cool story bro
Its not that easy to drive since you need to learn the new gearbox style and two gear selectors. My issue is mostly running on certain gear most of the time. For offroad truck this makes sense as you are using whole range pretty much, but daily driver not so much. Still lovely little contraption and i wish some company made cheap couple gears and reverse boxes, but nope those are hella expensive what little is out there. Secondly this would never be road legal here. Just repair welding the subframe is automatic failure in yearly inspection. Seeing this, engineer would get brain aneurism and cause of this only place to use in is on the offroad side, maybe utility vehicle, but that also means it being diesel, witch there is very few around and completely out of price range of average joe.
One popular modification in the Volkswagen community is to take a Suzuki GSXR-1300 Hayabusa engine and mount it in a MK1 Golf [Rabbit in the US]. The engine fits perfectly, since it is approximately the same size as the Volkswagen EA827 engine the car came with, and it is easy to fabricate adapter plates. Since the early Golf was between 1800 and 2100 pounds, this 200 hp engine turns the little car into a raging screaming beast that runs with V8 Mustangs and Camaros.
Cool story bro
There are some in The Netherlands too
@@equalizer4633I'm building one. It's a 1982 Fiat 126p with a GSXR1000.
@@Nxt25the little fiat is so cute. It will be insane with that engine
I would kill to put a Busa engine in my 1993 Gemini!!!
Is this Garage 54?? This is a legit build. Incorporating a second transmission is nothing new but engineering it for this purpose is a stroke of genius. I would question matching up the gear ratios but it's probably fine in a Lada and makes the whole project especially interesting. That fabrication work is also no joke. You guys seriously stepped it up this time, there's real potential here . Please keep this project going.
🟦…I agree, he needs to find the lowest gear that it needs to drive the proper range of that secondary transmission and just Leave it there!
No this is garage 55
Thank you guys so much for bringing the Fast and Furious gearbox to reality!
The creativity of this channel is off the charts :)
Fast and furious sucks now
30 gears😂
Oh damn! That’s a keeper project Lada. Very cool indeed. I'd love to see how it performs on the dry track once the snow is gone.
well, obviously not like an ordinary car
This car is for winter drift
@Garage54 thank y'all for doing this, my dad uncle and couple others THEORIZED about 39 years ago that will work, but to MANY mouth runners discouraged this and was dropped, thank y'all all for proving ANYTHING CAN BE DONE WITH BRAIN AND ELBOW GREASE
amen .
They're fine mechanics/machinists/welders/craftsmen at Garage54.
Cool story bra
Hell yeah! That is a badass swap!
I love what you did with the second gearbox for fine tuning ratios.
Top speed eleventy billion kph!
I'm 3 minutes into the video and I see you FINALLY found a decent welder.
Yea the other guys were ok and got the job done; but this new dude they got is a beast.
I and here I am thinking garage 54 is all about sketchy up experiments. I keep forgetting these guys can actually build good when they wanted to.
@@EARDRUMASSASSIN They are not new guys, they are from another project "DRIFT Garage54"
From somewhere in Russia
@@renz1013 they do not only real things, but also content.
That car is absolutely off the hook. I look forward to seeing more, there’s room for a turbo under the lid now, a disco potato would be mad as.
The young lads (two in particular) working for Garage 54 are fantastic. Well done lads.
I use to drag race mini's at Santa Pod in the UK 🇬🇧.
I put in a blown small block Chevy +200hp nitrous. Put out 1200hp through a 3-speed box, in a car that weighed 1300lb/600kg.
It would do a 1/4 mile in 7.7, and 0-60 in 1.3 seconds.
Now I'm old and grey, and nothing seems exciting anymore.
Wow, life well lived...Hello from Los Angeles
@@takeonetheater Hello from Leeds in West Yorkshire!
Plenty of Citroen 2CVs out there fitted with motorbike engines, the joy it must bring when audi tailgaters are left in the dust by a french duck must be immense, only ever seen them in videos, but the cars being so lightweight, they're pretty damned fast when the loud pedal is shoved... :P
I think they're quite handsome cars, very easily customisable.
Those are some pretty good looking mounts you fabricated. Keep up the fun work.
You have just given me the totally insane idea of trying that in an old very light fiberglass sports car I have that's in need of a new engine.
Do it!!!!
Ninja H2 engine, doo it
@mattever2203 Turbo busa engine would probably be more cost effective
I call this a 112% success, looking forward to seeing more of this project. Also show how the clutch is actuation is set up. Cheers from Montreal Canada.
Absolutely incredible job, these are the best types of videos.
haha, the 4th.gear direct drive is a good idea. And using the bend in the gearbox ! it's good fun!
Sweet work! Hope this one sticks around / they do more vids on it. Take it on that private lot and test more/all of the gears.
I'll bet they'll be fighting for it for who gets to drive it to work everyday!
Very well done project! By taking out a lot of front weight and having a clutch-less transmission I think you this is a good start for a Lada rally car build. Please do more videos with this car!
Outstanding. Very clean job.
Your best ever! Your fab work on the motor mounts is excellent. Keep it in good shape and take out after the snow is gone!
You *will* need a dry sump system. The Oil will vet skoshed to the side because the engine is no longer leaning whilst taking a turn. This will probably cause oil starvation if not taken care of.
Super fast Matt killed a CBR engine on the track in this way
I watched this episode laughing and giggling like a child. Especially when drifting at full throttle in the snow with the car. :))
Hell yeah. Keep this car progressing. Nice clean good sounding full length exhaust would be awesome. Try keeping the bike trans in a lower gear and shift the car trans. It would be a great comparison or project to find out what gear combinations work best for all around fun, drag ET, drift, autocross and daily. Aloha from Maui, Hawaii.
Hawaii.... Lucky! Im in the rainy state of Washington
This one is a keeper
This is something I’d always liked to have seen happen. And now it has. Great job!
Now,ice screws+lada+1100cc=winter monster that shines through the "Winter doldrums"! awesome job!!+++
Very well done. Fantastic engineering Keep up the great work.
Never thought id see a lada with a splitter box. As a trucking sim fan this brings me great joy. Keep at it!
You guys never fail to impress. Awesome work!
sick build. just a warning though, motorcycle engines and their oil pan are designed for leaning during cornering. if you thrash the car hard in corners it will starve the engine of oil and lead to spun bearings. a dry sump is the way to go unfortunately. superfastmatt has done the same in a honda s600 chassis. keep up the good work.
My thoughts too after watching Matt's s600 a few years back
So glad I found this channel. Thanks for all you do, and keep up the good work!
This is my favorite build that you have done. Amazing job
Sounds like a lot of fun, followed by a headache and instant relief when you turn it off. It reminds me of Junk Yard Wars sand rail build.
If you can somehow get hold of it in Russia, perhaps you might want to swap a GR Yaris motor into the Lada. It's 1.5 liter and produces over 250 HP. Alternatively, perhaps a Fiat 595 Abarth engine might be a better fit...and probably more appropriate, since the Lada is just a Fiat 124.
bro who the F is going to swap that type of engine into a lada lol. only on Pro setups , ladas run with whaterver thing its on it and a welded diff
@@boronat1 Someone like OP, literally. People were saying the same thing you said for this superbike engine swap.
@@fungo6631 for real, im sure they'd do it if they had the chance
@@boronat1 Garage54, that's who, clearly you haven't seen the wild shit they get into on this channel
i practice saying, "hey there fellas," as fast as i can...love this channel.
Such a quality build, you guys should race it on a frozen lake
JunkBuilds guys made an RWD Car with a Yamaha FZ6 engine from a Tavria, they made "Rebar wheels" from inspiration from u
Portal box(chain drive) on the output shaft to the drive shaft then the use of an electric motor(Prius battery) for added torque and reverse...
More of this car, please.
Thank you
the best build so far ! love it ! cant wait to see this lada rips in the summer
Now you're going to have to see what it's like on the track how fast does it actually go and how quick does it have between the start and stops compared to the original setup
We would like to see more of this car on a track !!!
Quiet up the exhaust (like a sleeper) with an exhaust dump.
1:30 - "Light crash", it's front end is hanging off!!
Someone went flying!
@@volvo09 Ya, nasty one that!
in Russia heavy crash bike detonates....
13b rotary with a bridge port would be sick 🔥😂 also you could introduce some folks to the beautiful noise.. Brap Brap Brap
Imagine the torque with 1st + 1st!
I would love to see this on the streets in the city when the snow is gone or perhaps on a track, i love it
Sounds awesome
Lovely! I want to see this in a drift event!
17:27 why no translation here? What was it about?
0:44 i want these posters. but i'm afraid sending money to russia 🤣🤣
Hard times for everyone the world over. But know this some of us ordinary Westerners love Russian people and we love you garage 54. Thank you for all the amazing videos from an Englishman who just wants peace and fun with cars...
And now a Lada powered motorbike
Looks like a real pro job especially the engine mountings
can i get a lada😂
LADA ROFL
i would like to see a track day with this! awsome work guys!
Can you send me a Lada?
They tried but it wouldn’t start😂
I can send you a lad.
@@gteaz seriusly?
@@michelemariotti72 Yes. He can hold his breath under water for 3 seconds.
Uuu i like it
excited for a full ride and possibly drift video.
What's that i heard a garage 54 special hood scoop and beautiful job cant wait for the full test
Wow that was hilarious and amazing to watch! Been watching for years and you guys continue to impress!
It looks brilliant! sounds awesome and actually works great! i imagine the engines gearbox will have to be strenghtened just because of the weight of the car.. i imagine the clutch should need upgrading too due to the weight of the car it has to move..
I would have thought you could have made a transfer case ( sort of to change from chain to shaft driven and perhaps halve incorporated a reverse gear! So you could utilise the motorcycle gearbox??? Just an idea, love your show and can do attitude is wild!!!
Aaaand... the motorcycle gearbox clutches are toast.😅😂
Geilster Motorumbau den ich jemals gesehen habe! Zwei Getriebe sind eine geile Idee! Das schreit nach mehr Power!!!!
Super charge it! I want to see it drag race!
Rodney Dangerfield mixed with a truck driving semi operator that owns his Lada car speed shop. Awesome! I knew this was a great channel to keep viewing. Great work
Great job gentlemen! Looks like an absolute blast!
This is genius with the second gear box 😮 need to see more of this thing.
They did a lot of bodywork to this car as well. Front wing and front end was damaged. In the end, it's all good and a new headlight or replacement.
If you ever take something like this on a track or anything you will have to use a dry sump because the oil pan is not meant to be level in a corner all of the oil will leave the pump inlet on a motorcycle engine but adding a dry sump could be a good video idea.
I've seen a lot of people swp motorcycle engines into small kei cars. But this must be the most unique way to make everything work I have seen. 👍👍😊
I really like this Lada! very cool! The body is clean and simple as well very good job fellas
Bravo the Lada.. With motorbike engine very nice. And nice sound from exhaust. From Greece with love ❤
This is the best build you guys have ever done and you even figured out how to get reverse! I want to see this car on a track ASAP!
Check if you need to add some baffles to the oil pan or modify the oil pick up or something.
Maybe it is going to have oil starvation issues when you turn left or right (similar to what happens when you do a prolonged wheelie on some bikes = turn left in your case).
The most crazy and wonderfull swap ever. And good manufacture of the all artesanal pieces and modifications. I am cuban, and doit many modifications in to a lada cars but this its amaizing congratulations 👌🏼👌🏼
Man i love mechanics from eastern europe ... Lots of them in Norway and ive learned alot . But they are completley insane ..... I just love them
I was smiling and giggling the whole video! This was a rip to watch you guys are amazing! I feel like that needs to go to a drag strip
Still some of the coolest experiments well done I hope to see more
Lada : "These thing has 30 gears!"
Peterbilt : (growling v8 18 speed) "worthy opponent!"
Suzuki RP68: "Hello, grandkids!"
(2stroke 50cc 16 speed 20rpm noises)
You guys never cease to amaze me. All of you come up with the most incredible projects. I look forward to more genius projects from you.
I see an intercooler in the future for that car, would love to see that install
Man what a goal! But you need to take that baby to a track day without snow to try that baby, sounds awesome!
This is on of the most practical modifications in a long time. Hope to see revisions.
You sir are a engineering wizard
Cheers rfom Finland. I have always wanted to build something like old fiat 127, moscvits or lada with this kind of engine. Making chassis super light and putting hayabusa engine would be build of dreams. Then later maybe even turbo hayabusa to get 300-400hp range. Great work here!👍🏻
Can't wait to see it in the summer do some steep climbs in 1st 1st and ripping round the track in 6th 5th 👍👍
Your work/ fabrication skills have came a long way since the beginning. Yall are awesome. Sounds like an F1
Been watching these fellas for a while now, most impressive genius creation they have done so far
might be a nice setup to put in shorty , thats a verry light car
or build a lotus 7 replica with the thermoformed plastic bodyparts
one thing with motorcycle engines is that the clutch basket tends to get damaged from the clutchplates hitting it with more force , causes the teeth of the clutches to make divits in the aluminium and over time it doesnt release as good
Totally awesome ! Car enthusiasts in every part of the world can appreciate this. Speaking of which, I wonder what certain car collectors would pay to own a build like this?
Can't wait to see it on dry or wet pavement. Thanks for another great vid.
THIS WOULD HAVE gone WELL with that red 'Shorty' 2 door Lada you did (the one you fitted a full wooden exhaust/Machine gun exhaust). Being a lighter vehicle, (without all the speakers lol), it could have been QUICK! Especially when you see vids on old Fiat 1267/127s & Smartfor2 & classic Minis fitted with 1200/1300/1400cc motorcycle engines!!! 😉👌
😎🇬🇧
Tienes todo el invierno para resolver lo que sea, ESPERO ANSIOSO UNA PRUEBA DE ESTE SUPERLADA para el próximo verano!!!!!!
Now the Lada is ready to go to Vladivostok and back to St.Petersburg 😁 😁