We watch an engine run through a transparent cylinder head
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You and your shop are the legitimate A-Team....there truly isn't a thing y'all can't accomplish. Grade A video guys.
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@Shane888 Davies Ok...but can he do what these guys do....
That is rhetorical, I watch him too.
He's smart...really smart, but he ain't these guys. These guys are on a level that he'll never be at.
@@SteelSmoker well with the right team you can do anything
Д-Team :)
@@jonathankaufold7503 Exactly!!!
Out of all the goofy, weird, funny experiments you guys have done over the last couple of years, this one ranks as probably the most accidentally educational. We all know what happens, but to be able to watch it happen is a whole 'nother level of fascination. I was really impressed that you got the plexi head machined as well as you did, never mind making it work. Really 107% success rate on this one.
BTW, Vlad, that type of engine is simply called a flathead.
L head in this case, the other option is T head.
@@rosiehawtrey Absolutely, yes. L-head is as you see it in the video-both valves to one side. T-head is valves on either side of the piston. Thanks for clarifying that. Hell, I had forgotten!
@@rosiehawtrey if i didn't know better id say that engine was out of a 🇺🇸 forklift ( like a 70's clark as 4 and L6 cylinder's where used ) or ford model T 🇺🇸. but i fond out ford ( and gm use the same engine for awhile in lines like the oakland-6 ect. ) had sub-supplier's like continental so may bet is it's one of them and is related to the jeep engines that was used 1940-2006 as they modified into the last 4.0L
@@richardprice5978 The Jeep engine was a flathead at first? Then it was modified to be a OHV?
@@gabrielv.4358 yes continental engine design go looking eventual you will find it, thats why the 2006-4Q/2007 jeep 4.0L has some odd quarks and flaws as for awhile it was easier to modify the tooling that to start from scratch remember that this is pre-CAD software era and after watching my RUclips channels im getting the feeling the packered and buick straight-8's are twist's on the same platform ( seams likely to have started off as the T-engine and then the Oakland then the 8-cylinder then back to L-6 AMC then to Nissan L26 then 2JZ then OM-606 merc C-class ( 🤷♂im not sure if merc uses it anymore or any L-6's i do know that it did get a airworthiness certificate in this format as a diesel engine 🤔 and maybe even the gasoline 88 ron variant of merc. ) then dyeing off tech tree 🌳wise and keep in mind just like some video games it's not in chronologic orders but worse to best/final edition ) and later on some how IP was sold/moft into the 2JZ/twin cam but jeep never used it and or at least in the north American market that i have the most accurate never used the diesel version ether instead it was a different diesel engine ( a 4cy or v6 but i haven't ever worked one it but a aqantace did import and or ordered one xj from Canada 🇨🇦 ) and way mostly for the Canada 🇨🇦 and Mexican/🇺🇸 army marketing aka rare
all you gotta do now is add the see through sump and you'll have an excellent teaching aid to young people to really show them how the intenal combustion engine works, what an amazing experiment. good stuff guys, love these types of experiment
only for a few minutes though.
They've done that
Use methanol. It will keep the cylinder head cool. They use NO coolant passages in methanol drag racers in the USA, because methanol cools so well, even 10,000hp racers.
You're thinking of top-fuel cars. The fuel is methanol + nitromethane, the nitro in particular has a large cooling effect due to its extremely rich optimal air:fuel ratio. They also run for only a few minutes at a time, and most of that is at idle (like 8 seconds WOT at most).
@@nerd1000ify Methanol has the same effect.
@@nerd1000ify No, I am not. Top Alcohol cars also use billet heads. Methanol has a latent heat of 473BTU/lb, while nitromethane has only 241BTU/lb.
Methanol absorbs FAR FAR more heat per unit of mass than nitromethane fuel.
@@exploranator
Wasn't aware that the straight methanol cara did this as well. I'd have to run the numbers to see exactly which one gets more overall cooling, nitromethane might have a lower latent heat of vapourisation but you do use a lot more of it per unit of air.
In any case it's a bit moot, because drag engines are weird special cases. There's a lot you can do when you're only running under load for a few seconds at a time, and the engine gets a rebuild every few runs.
It also helps when your car is only run for 10 seconds and rebuilt after each pass.
So cool. The advantage of sidevalve engines is that it's possible to do this *relatively* easily as the head itself is mostly just a cover. In my opinion they also sound better.
Sidevalve/flathead design means low compression, which means low power. But it also means less stress on things so they last forever - there are still some engines from the 1910s/1920s still running today.
And if a valve loses its keeper it won't breakdance inside the cylinder
And you can revv the thing out of it and it will never blow because of the valve float
@@gabrielv.4358 ... oh, you absolutely can float the valves on a flathead engine.... but they won't hit the pistons.
@@rupe53 thats what I meant to say
Never seen a 4 cylinder with transparent head. Nice job guys!
Well, this is like Warped Perception's transparent head videos, but on another awesome level! Great job guys. Yes you should try other fuels.
Maybe you could show what it looks like during a really cold start if at all possible? I'd be most interested in seeing this on a Diesel engine but i'd be really impressed if you manage to make a plexi head that doesn't instantly explode on those compressions 🤣🤣
I was thinking the same. But I'd imagine on a diesel the head wouldn't last long like you stated. if at all. Cool idea though!
Here in the USA we call that type of engine a Flat Head Engine. In other countries they are called Side Valve Engine because the valves are on the side of the engine. I love Flat Head Engines. They are much simpler and that makes them more reliable. Performance is lower than an engine with overhead valves. Air flow is much better with overhead valves but I will take easy to work on and better reliably any day. The misfire on cylinder number 4 may be caused by carbon buildup in the intake port from a leaking intake valve. The misfire is not all the time so carbon is blocking air flow and absorbing fuel from the air/fuel mixture.
Anyway, I really enjoyed this video! You guys are amazing at the things you come up with.
I like working on Russian stuff. I helped restore captured Russian military equipment from Iraq at the Anniston Army Depot and I even have a KMZ Dnepr MT-11 Sidecar Motorcycle I restored a few years ago. I took it completely apart, inspected everything, and repaired or replaced bad part's installed at KMZ when the motorcycle was very poorly built by very poor workmanship. Today it's a good reliable motorcycle I ride often.
That does look like a continental F-162 found in Lincoln SA 200 Welders.
The misfire could be caused by many different things... Low compression, leaking valve, bad spark plug, bag ignition wire, carbon tracking in the distributor cap, and so on. It's not possible to tell by this video alone.
I can see this being a major advantage in scenarios where key parts of the engine experience failure. You'll be able to diagnose head gasket issues or valve float on the spot without removing the actual head or cover itself.
This is the coolest project hands down. Was amazing seeing the pistons working.
Garage 54: TRANSPARENCY!!!!
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Thank you translator for all the work you do to bring these awesome experiments to us!
Love your garages imagination and ingenuity along with the skills and talent to make them come alive. The excitement is also contagious.
Great work.
You got it exactly right!
It be awesome to see a transparent transmission shifting gears
I can personally attest that seeing a transmission valve body operate with a plexiglass cover plate is really something. When repairing a transmission on my Buick I had to cut test plates to run the valve body halves on a bench using a couple of pumps, cans of fluid and a lot of clear plastic tubing to take place of the interface plate. It was really something to behold when it all finally started to work, no amount of the couple hundred pages of repair manuals I had read up until then prepared me for what I seen at that point, it all just made sense. The gear train likely wouldn't be as interesting to see, some cool stuff goes on there but you would have to build things like the big drums and carriers out of clear materials too as they all have tiny channels for fluid to travel.
Now there's an idea :)
You can actually see that it needs more ignition timing because the ignition event is happening after the piston starts to travel down and the flame gets pushed out before it’s finished burning.
I was about to say. It was firing at top dead center.
Maybe that’s even the problem why it’s not running anymore- the timing is going more and more off? You can see that it’s obviously still firing, but maybe it’s firing so late now that the piston is barely able to do any work?
@@RichTheNoun plugs are perhaps getting fouled?
Notice how the distributor is wobbling all over the place - that's got to be causing issues
It should fire near top at idle, then earlier as the distributor weights are pushed outwards at higher revs. And as for the flame being pushed out - the valve area is part of the combustion chamber, it should combust in there, it has to. Obviously you know it needs to be space there for the valves to open, the size/volume of that area has to be big and thats one of the weaknesses of flatheads, reducing the area gives better combustion but limits both valve size and opening and thus doesnt let the engine breathe.
I remember seeing these guys with rubber chickens for exhaust. They have defiantly gotten 307 percent more high tech. And from a guy that has had a love affair with the internal combustion engine for 30 years, this is the best video yet.
just subbed to your channel; cool stuff! These guys are stepping up their game and I love to see it. I'm still in the honeymoon phase of my love affair with engines, so perfect timing for this level of content. Watching the gases flow through the head and realizing that we have been mastering that for over a hundred years.... incredible.
Mate, I remember when it was mainly just Vlad in a small garage with enough space to just fit in one car. He was trying to destroy a Lada engine (I know, classic Garage 54 😄) by putting all different kind of stuff in it instead of oil. And that was it for me. Seeing where they are now only makes me happy
The rubber chicken mod is a classic
@@fry.master Thanks for the Sub. I hope to have some car content up soon. I've been sick through the Holidays so I'm behind on my vids.
13:57 "Wow you really get a good view, when you have such a good view!" LOL 😂 love you Vlad! Also a side note that engine would have still started if it was a lada motor! 👏 happy new year!
I think an o-ring would work well. Just cut a groove ~.5mm deep around the combustion chamber ~1mm away, and run some ~.8mm wire in it to spread pressures & forces.
Best wishes to the ‘54 family for the new year!
Some big washers on the top would've helped, and tightening down the head after it got good-n-warm would've helped also, thanks for sharing guys.
It looks like there was no head gasket too. I think the air was coming through the cracks between the engine block and plexiglass.
Awesome! Watching the hot gases and flame get sucked into the exhaust was great. Would be cool to see a clear carburetor along with the clear cylinder head - to watch the fuel flow from start to finish.
Vlad & crew are doing things that I always wondered about. Keep up the great work men!!
Watching it in slo-mo gives me goosebumps, this is literally what humans made. The mechanics of engines is so simple, yet it took thousands of years for us to get here.
And to see it all happen, is just plain inspirational.
Harnessing chemical energy, turning it into kinetic energy. Thousands of mini explosions happening a minute, all near perfectly. And this is considered a basic engine, that many cars have.
There is something about seeing all this that makes you feel in awe, to the science behind it, how we literally toy with physics, just to make commodity for day to day life.
Crazy stuff man, truly crazy.
brings home what goes on in an engine and how quick. Gives an idea of the forces involved too.
@Adam Chapman Wouldn't care much for the sensors per se (not much to see) but a see through altinator would be interesting. Even go a few generations of engine from an old crank/dynamo engine to a see through mazda skyactiv. Simulations are nice, but a living, breathing example is far more tangable.
@@cudwieser3952 your vocabulary is weird
@@phrg8332 Say What? Seriously though what did I say?
@@cudwieser3952 D.W. man your vocab is fine. I fully understood what you wrote. And I too, would love to see transparent engines acoss their evolution ranges. Nissan still does cutaways. Pretty sure they have an r35 vr38 cutaway on display @ their HQ in Jap.
Happy new year! I have been watching you guys for so long! amazing to see how far you've come! would be amazing to see a tempered glass cylinder head someday
That's how you learn that edges in tge combustion chamber cause hot spots, knock.... That's one big reason for low power old engines, amon many others. Great video
something I didn't know I wanted to see!!! this is a regular on your channel!!! Thanks for showing the world all the stuff we would never see anywhere else!! Happy New Year!!
This is amazing!
I cant wait to see if you can make a full transparent engine. That would be a world first!
Edit: Happy new year!
A few weeks ago someone posted a video of a transparent single cylinder engine running on you tube.
Edit. A transparent cylinder on an engine.
AHH my favourite channel! Keep it up fellas!
This is a legitimate RUclips legend to be shared, a see through 4 cylinders engine, this will be a clip to be shared for years to come
I didn't read all 800 + comments so i'm sorry if this was stated already. I to noticed the exhaust valve opening up a bit sooner, pulling out the lit gasses. I wondered about that but then thought " man id like to actual Direct injection and engine knock taking place and leading up to pre ignition and detonation or what not!
Was a very interesting video and thanks for taking the time to actually do this and then put up to let us all see. Strangely satisfying , and very informative haha!
Seeing how the combustion works is amazing and even when you flooded it
reminds me of the Warped Perception see-thru cylinder head!
Amazing video perfect for mechanic students to watch and learn how a four stroke works thank you
Garage 54 very well done !
Happy new year Garage 54! Thanks for all the work you's do!
It would be really cool to see a whole entire engine transparent. The block and all. It'd probably be extremely difficult to make, maybe even impossible. At least, for such an engine to run. But if you did you'd be able to see the crank, pistons and connecting rods, valvetrain, etc etc. Would be even cooler on an overhead cam engine, or a bigger one two, like a V6 or V8 or something. Again, would be extremely hard or even impossible for an engine built like that to run, but man would it be cool to see
Maybe with future materials.....
They make some pretty cool models today. I have a half size ford V8 that sparks and runs on vegetable oil for the oil. It costs a lot but it's really cool and you learn exactly how it all goes together, every piece, nut and bolt.
It could be made with todays material, aluminum oxynitride aka transparent aluminium. Its ceramic stuff, harder than steel. Too expensive to be realistic though.
We need some of that Star Trek transparent aluminium.
Driving will always be different after seeing flame fronts and valve suction. And flooding!
Now I wish I had a fiber optic camera feed from each cylinder to the dashboard computer screen.
Watch the road! ;-)
@@MichaelLaferriere 😆 Exactly!
There are small model engines available, with glass heads, so that one can sit and watch the combustion at the kitchen table if he wanted to. Definitely NOT while one is driving down the street.
This might be the coolest thing you guys have done so far. Absolutely incredible footage from the engine running.
"Wow you really get a good view when you have such a good view" 😂
I am at a loss for descriptive words too as yeah 😲that was AWESOME! to see.
Thank You Garage54 for bringing these crazy ideas to life & BMI for the excellent translations so us in the English speaking world can enjoy them too 🥰Poka!
If i were to ever visit Russia, i think you guys would be my first stop jsut to say hello and thank you for the content.
as for a clear item suggestion, how about a clear waterpump assembly? a clear radiator, clear freeze plugs to monitor in the coolant jackets? clear hoses.
Try making a water cooled transparent cylinder head out of thick tempered glass or something that won't burn as much
Since they have the original, get it cast in Pyrex or Quartz. Maybe metal inserts for spark plugs and bolt holes
Might be hard to form the glass around the cores you'd make, the viscosity of molten glass is pretty high
@@thesilentcitadel If you cast it in quartz, it IS glass.
@@irgant rubber or silicone head gaskets and such would squish first. But one bolt tightened more than another would likely break it, so each bolt would have to be tightened a quarter turn at a time.
@@markae0 What engines use rubber or silicone head gaskets? None. The common head gasket material used today is M.L.S. (multi-layered steel). It hardly compresses at all, and good practice to torqueing head gaskets IS in a pattern, and in small steps on each bolt. Ford had "glass" heads on one of it's running flathead V-8 engines way back in the 50's. So yes, it's completely possible to do it today.
👍 This was great! The old flat head engines are classic, and it was fascinating to watch it run through the transparent head.
I remember the 1953 auto show in New York when Ford ran a flathead V8 with Pyrex cylinder heads. Awesome job guys!
Very cool, especially when you flooded the engine. You could see the gasoline washing the oil off the combustion chamber.
This is exactly why it's horrible to run an engine extremely rich all the time. The extra fuel washes out the cylinder bores, and wear occurs very fast. Pretty soon the rings would be shot, and there will be no compression left.
That "primitive" cylinder head is a classic flat head design. Like the famous Ford flat head V8s
Your enthusiasm alone is good reason to watch your videos! Well done, keep it coming!
I wasn't excited at the thought of seeing the 4 strokes but boy was I underestimating its beauty. It is so great to look at. wow.
Transparent 4 cylinder
I miss my old side valve engined Ford. There's something about being able to take the cylinder head off in five minutes that is quite endearing. Never even needed to fit a new head gasket, because there is nothing mechanically pushing it off like on a new fangled OHV engine and no oil-ways.
It also helped to have so many studs holding the head in place and 6.5:1 compression.
There's something alright...near zero flow and horrible cylinder dynamics.
Nothing "mechanically pushes the head off" on an OHV engine either. 🤔🤷🏻
Flat heads are severely limited in power and efficiency by the horrible intake and exhaust ports, and the low compression they are stuck with. They are a poor design, and I'm GLAD to be past them.
@@davelowets Compression ratio and (When applicable) boost pressure pushes the head upward, whether the engine is a flathead, OHV, or OHC.
@@skylinefever This applies to a flathead also, if one wants to try and increase power. It's called cylinder pressure, and all engines, even flatheads, create power from it. If you want to live with a weak and inefficient engine, then use a flathead
That is freaking cool to watch!👌😂👍this guy’s amaze me every time!😂👍happy new year garage54!
Great Video. When the plexi gets hot and begins to melt, the fumes throw the air mixture off so it wouldnt run the 2nd attempt.
I would like to see a head made of high temp glass so it doesn't melt. I wonder if it possible?
If someone can cut that complex shape it should
@@GeorgiGeorgiev-ne9ps Or cast.
I think they used plexiglass because regular glass would be too brittle
Sure it would be possible. But besides just curing the "melting" issue, this would bring on a host of other problems because glass is a much poorer conductor of heat, compared to a proper metallic head.
Definitely be interesting to see what colour flame you get, and if flow's any different with different gases. You could try petrol vapour too, like the whole Pogue Carburettor thing.
Then, if you're gonna destroy it, there's always good old laughing gas!
Laughing gas? You mean oxy-acetilene? Lol
He was from my city!!
@@eljaibas16 nitrous oxide is also laughing gas
How has this only got half a million views, this was really special. Loved it. Amazing video!
Absolutely why I keep watching you guys!! One time your making some crazy spacer or slinging tires, the next your doing something that's truly "educational"😉! Love it!
The plexi allows you to run a higher compression ratio by drilling away less material and having a smaller combustion chamber. I'd like to see that as another experiment with this engine.
More compression = more heat though :(
Here in the US, that's called a "flat head" engine.
Or a "side valve"... I've heard BOTH used often here in the U.S.
This is about the best ever clear top i have seen on an engine. Well done. You should totally get in touch with slo-mo guys Lol. This is brilliant.
Really cool video as always!Looking forward to what new videos you put up this year.All the best to you guys in 2022!
Это круто! У вас, ребята, невероятные навыки, как у мастеров. Мы больше не видим этот тип навыков в Америке, потому что все автоматизировано. Я рад видеть, что люди до сих пор работают руками. Отличный друг по видео, спасибо.
Omg
at around 10:35 Happiness is a universal emotion. This is one of the moment when you see his eyes and the excitement. I did not need the translator to convey the feeling and or the emotions. We men need only simple stuff.
35 years as an Automotive technician and this is the most awesome thing I have ever seen :)
straight to the point as always, love it!
This is honestly the best thing I have seen all year!
Thanks for another cool clip, great work on clear cylinder head! Only at 54! I received G54 air freshener the other day, smell great! Thanks heaps, will order more stuff when I save up, cheers from Australia maytes!
Wow, you guys never disappoint! looks like a blast of fun too! Happy New Year from Indiana USA
Yes mesmerizing , and yes I seen the Exhaust being drawn-out very cool nice work !
Best video I have ever seen on this channel.
Very cool.
Yah , I think those old flatties were only about 7:1 compression , so I think the melting in the combustion chambers lowered it down to probably less than 5:1 . But that was how I always pictured it . you could even scan the 1-3-4-2 firing order . Damn you guys did a beautiful job on the combustion chambers . Nice work guys . :)
A Moskvitch 401 (1947-55) originally had only 24 bhp/3400 rpm on 1074 c.c.
and only 5.8:1 compression...if you had strong enough vodka it would run on it!
@@vitameat Our flathead had a touch more compression , except the tractor motors , but those were smooth running little buggers . I'm an old iron kind a guy . Lol
You are the most skilled mechanical engineers i've ever seen, or at least you are real artists! Thanks for this Xmas present
Nice! First multi cylinder see through head!
Great work on that head! Looked great, too bad all that polishing dosen't last forever :)
What a brilliant video, happy new year to Vlad and co, and well done for showing us this, the slow motion was excellent.
Feliz 2022 Garage 54!!! Desde Buenos Aires, Argentina.
the engine looks so neat!
old moskvich engine bays look so.... clean and beautiful
Beautiful , such a masterpiece . And you are right , I could just watch the combustion inside the engine. It's a very great educational video for future mechanics. thank you for making this video.
Sooooo Cooool!!!!! Wow that was just incredible. Thank you so much for making this and sharing it. Cheers.
Awesomest stuff I've ever seen! Happy new year!
Amazing video, i watched many videos with transparent cylinderhead and this video is the best, much better than overs.
That is SO COOL. I've seen videos of single cylinder engines with transparent heads, but never one of an engine with more than one cylinder. Instant like from me.
This is a cool idea! Actually seeing the engine firing!!!!! Glad you had a flathead engine to use!!!
One of your best guys !!! happy new year !!!
Had to pause. Thought that engine looked familiar. Sterling kit has a tiny 4cyl engine exactly like that! Runs too! FL4-175 Flathead. No bigger than a cigarette! They have another 4cyl that has an ohv setup instead of the valves sitting next to the piston. JohnnyQ90 has videos of them running! Again very cool!
I don't comment every on your channel. I'm a silent viewer. I like this video. I have watched almost every video you have produced. I live in Lexington Kentucky. Thankyou.
I was waiting for the plexi glass to burst but it didn't. Plexi glasses are indeed pretty tough. Great video, guys!
Probably, by what I see, spark event is not timed right. Distributor is wiggling all around. Try to run Diesel through the carb and see what kind of timing is needed to get running without excessive pre-ignition. I did this with a small 2 stroke and 4 stroke motorbike engine, and it worked. Since the default low compression ratio won't set it off on it's own, you can mill the "Plexi-Head" flat to bump ratio...but making it flat would moreso make rebuilding this engine for other runs easier/quicker/cheaper. Good job Garage54!
Very cool. I have wanted to do this for years, thank you guys for making this one !
Happy New Year guys! Just love your videos! Keep them coming!
Does not get any better than this comedy and a learning achievement worked on a lot of flat heads but I never had a chance to see a see-through head one excellent Vlad....
The slow motion is so satisfying. Air and fuel get sucked in. And the explosion get forced out. It's so cool 😎 🤯
That's a great video fellas. Always enjoy watching your crazy yet scientific stuff and this has to be one of the best yet.
You guys are really great. Awesome video for so many reasons.
Happy new year hopes more for 2022. We love your doing work. Cheers vodka from Australia
This reminds me of the old as the hills "color tune" spark plug testers, just an engine head.
Finally somebody does it to a multi-cylinder flathead that was awesome
That is so friggin Kool Garage 54. It looks like the engine stopped then the plug fires and the engine spins back up. (Edit) even not running it still looks awesome when it fires.
Two days on RUclips and already has over 6K likes. Nice work Garage 54!
Was wondering how the plugs would work until I saw the wire wrapped around the base.
Suck, squeeze, bang blow!
This episode is raw epic. Bravo !
Happy New Year from the UK. Looking forward to 2022 video's.
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