Tuesday, April 11, 2023

the Russians at Garage 54 decided to find out how many AA batteries it would take to start a 4 banger Lada

it took 312

24 are needed just to spin a starter that is removed from an engine... with no load on the gear

160 are needed to move the crank, I suspect that means without spark plugs causing the pistons to compress air in a sealed cylinder

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  1. It must be difficult for a site like this with the Ukraine situation, as Garage 54 cannot say much without getting into serious trouble, but I noticed shortly after that war began that subtle blue and yellow objects started showing up. Of course that's not such an uncommon combination anyway, but it seems to show up more. One day there would be a blue and yellow tire on the wall, or a fortuitously blue and yellow machine would appear. Was the lift always blue and yellow? In the one cited here, the back bench is lit up unusually. I'm sure with the climate now in Russia there's little one can say aloud, but I suspect there's a message here.

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    1. oh wow, that is very cool of them, and must be a deliberate decision on their part. Yeah, you're right, it's got to be so hard for them to be that brave, and risk the rest of their lives, and their families, with torture, prison, death. Those are not hyperbole. Those are likely to happen to anyone pissing off Putin with the Ukraine issue in a disloyal way. He was head of the KGB, and now, has been running the country since 2012

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