Let me suggest again, build a multi-fuel engine. LPG, petrol, diesel and anything that burns. So far you have tried everything, all that is left is this test. LPG is very easy to install on the carburettor and can also use a gas bottle for home use.

On my 2 stroke moped on witch i modified the cyl and piston with books from the library, i found out the spark plug became red hot and would even run without the lead/cable plugged after pulling if off due to extreme high rpm and continue to run on the same rpm without sparks. i even used sun flower oil in the tank at some point and it smelled like restaurant.

Damn that’s crazy! I wouldn’t have thought it would have run that good!

I am an American who is so glad to see your channel continue to grow!! During these trying times just know theres folks here that support yall and pray for your safety and prosperity

As many others said before: You have to enlarge the nozzles to run the engine on nitromethane. The engine running on glow plugs has no power because of igniting much to early.The combustion gases cannot exert any force. Greetings from germany! Keep it up👍

Very interesting experiment and I'm not that surprised that an engine as simple and basic as the Lada will idle with glow plugs. But without any means of timing the ignition it's never going to run well at different RPM's. Still fun to see it running with the distributor cap off.

would have been cool to drill out the main jets in the carb a bit , it did idle surprisingly well though :)

you guys never fail to come up with something interesting maybe you could design a carb for the nitro. anyway its always a pleasure watching the videos that continue to be a blessing. kudos to you vlad and your crew.

One day, this man is going to change the world.

From USA here, love you guys! Every time i look at my home screen and look through the different video selections the videos im always drawn to are yours bc these are the same questions i wojld have myself and love to see you guys actually trying it out and testing. This is awesome, keep up the awesome work fellas!!!!

This might work if you lowered the voltage to the glow plugs. It would lower the temp of the plugs. This would have the effect of reducing the ignition timing

Been gone a while but watching again. Looking healthy! I love how I this guy with most a cramped single car workshop and seeing this success is great!

Carbureted “diesels” are still used in RC model planes, they have adjustable compression.

I have just found out about hot bulb engines as well as hit and miss engines. The hot bulb engine is amazing in it’s own right. The hit and miss engines are pretty cool. I only saw the smaller ones running. I found a video of one powering an oil pump in Wyoming. Those one are crazy. Small ones sound quiet, but the one powering the oil pump was something else. It had a rumble bass note and had a massive muffler.

There is one idea i wish i can imply , its by using regular gasoline engine with running cold water vapor steam, like the one produced by ultrasounds in humidifier, when you run it inside the manifold, this will highly increase gas milage especially when you control the fuel mixture and run lean fuel mixture

I absolutely adore these videos tbh, god bless whoever does the voiceovers! Not very emotive but it sure looks from the faces that they get the vibe right in english

One of the best episodes so far. Brilliant!!

Wow. It goes against everything I've ever been taught. Conventional thinking says it should have detonated itself to death. I'm kinda floored it even started. You can progressively drill out the main and midrange jets. Make sure you go straight and don't wobble the bit at all. Best done on a drill press. Outstanding video.

I love the stuff you do on this channel.

This channel is great. I knew I was hooked when I saw you guys doing concrete tires lol

You guys should try and make a Dual overhead cam head and direct injection lada engine.

Thank you for doing this, proving a concept and validating me. Back in the day I asked the same thing about replacing spark plugs with glow plugs and running a gas engine on diesel.

Man I love you guy’s content I watch like every night at this point you guys video is on top of my recommendation list every time I open KZfaq

I think for Nitro-Methane you need a much, much bigger jet in the carb. A 3,5cc model engine uses 250ml of fuel in 10-15min easily. Now scale this up to the Lada engine. Great video though! Greetings from Germany, Simon

Back when you converted the gas engine to run on diesel, I would like to see if you could get one where it 2 cylinders on diesel and 2 cylinders on gas. Maybe set them up where the gas and diesel are both at TDC at the same time so the gas cylinders and diesel cylinders are balancing each other.

I love this channel. Found it lastnight. Been watching it ever since. Video by video. It's awesome. Keep it up Garage 54

Hello from the United States. I do enjoy watching your content and the experiments you conduct. As someone who wishes to start their own car company someday, it really excites me and makes me think when I watch your experiments.

Solid! Top KEK! Peace be with you.

I’m impressed that onlist it worked!! I bet you with more fiddling it would drive!👌😂👍great job guy’s!

You need a lot more fuel flow for the model engine fuel vs gas. Methanol has a catalyst reaction with platinum in the glow plug which keeps them hot without the battery once running. On the model engine, timing is somewhat controlled by the fuel mixture.

Reminds me of this old lawmower I got from my neighbor - it was capable of both dieseling and running on after cutting ignition (head was caked in carbon), and two-stroking at low RPMs possibly from really weak valve springs.

Will it run? Come on, this is Garage 54! It will run, At Least Once!

Well done lads , amazing 👏 👍 🙌

Great Video content, love it. What about if you increase the compression

This is likely pre igniting on each stroke, so the ignition timing effectively becomes the fuel timing, if you had EFI you could delay the injection window to close to TDC and it may run. (IMO). By running it very rich as you did with the choke you delayed the time for the fuel to fully combust as so much more was in the cylinder. That's how I see it.

I have an old Briggs and Stratton service manual that describes running the engine on kerosine by installing an optional injector pump. It still uses spark plugs , and no glow plugs, but the carb is deleted. I ran a Briggs engine on propane by running a tube from the propane torch into the fuel line and choking it all the way.The 1980 Mercedes owners manual describes mixing gasoline with diesel fuel in cold weather if no kerosine( number1 diesel ) is available. I forgot the percentage, but it was not much. I’d like to see a Lada with an injector pump running on diesel kerosine.Chevy V8’s were converted to diesels in the 80’s but they didn’t hold up too well.Maybe a spark plug / glow plug- injector pump/ carb combo would cover all the bases?Bahahahaha😆

You guys are ALWAYS voming up with something! This was an interesting one.

You all are very creative

Lada engine never ceases to amaze me, Wish we had Lada cars in our country too,

"A bit of back firing but nothing unusual." What a quote. Also I would try opening up the idle jet somehow for the nitro. More stable but less energy dense so A LOT more fuel is needed. Like flex fuel cars and how much less economical they are on E85 as to Gasoline.

I WAS MIND BLOWN TOO!! How!!!!!! Incrívelmente incrível!!! Muito Legal o experimento! i'd never thought it would run that good, I thought it would predetonate as heck. But I guess that predetonation only happens when there is hot spots on the piston, not on the plug, thus when the mix is cimpressed the fuel hits the glow plug and kabooms!

highly underrated channel

Я австралиец, учу русский благодаря жене, мне нравится этот канал. по моему опыту с gliw olugs мы используем ту же концепцию с модельными нитродвигателями :)

That sound, wow!

Need try it in fuel injection intake? 1 last thing you not done there was feather throttle at engine building revs doing adjustment 👍

Wow, that took me by surprise.

Very nice thats what i wanted! But now ad your Dieselpump Gas injection system you did some time ago...

WOW! AS A MECHANIC I'M SURPRISED IT RUNS THAT GOOD. OUR FRIENDS THE RUSSIANS ARE TIRELESS EXPERIMENTERS WHO FIND UNORTHODOX ANSWERS TO MANY PROBLEMS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ROCKET SCIENCE AND CHESS. WITH EFI THESE GUYS COULD SURELY PRODUCE A FLEX FUEL DIESEL IF GIVEN SOME TIME TO PERFECT IT. WHILE THE IDEA SEEMS STUPID, THEIR RESULTS ARE AMAZING. GREAT JOB GUYS!

5:10 backfire is the detonation. Lol

With glow plugs your HAVE to richen the mixture, richen the mixture to adjust the timing event, then with Rc fuel u have to run richer yet! The jetting in the gasoline carb is WAY to small for that

just love how it sounds like a diesel but actually gasoline

Hi try mixing the fuels a little of each type see if it will run with the benefits of each one added together.

No ignition timing with constant glowing glow plugs, did they ever have a carbureted engine that ran on nitro fuel ? Keep up the great job, you make my brain hurt with ideas !

Try warming up a gasoline engine then change the fuel to diesel and test if it works, and if not mix diesel with gasoline with normal spark plugs*

you always can change the valve size in the carburetor. In this way can add more fuel when not idling (because idle is can change with a screw)

If you could try scale model aircraft glow engine plugs and methanol as fuel, it could be interesting. The glow plugs have a platinum wire heating element which due to some catalytic effect remains hot after the engine is running and the electric current is disconnected.

i just remeber ,the vw ap engine if you have oil on the fuel after the engine warm up you can remove the power from the spaks plugs and the engine still rum

when piston goes down it sucks partly cold air and a little gas smoke. but when piston goes up gas smoke gets denser which easier tuches hot glow plug so piston repeats its cyrcle and engine works on smaller rpms, but partly

I was playing with a two stroke weed Wacker years ago I heated the spark plug with a torch and put it in the fuel was a mix of vegetable oil used motor oil and a little either.it ran smoked allot and you had to hold the idle up to keep it running.

Not surprised. The old 1970’s cars would sometimes keep running after you turned them off. Sometimes with the key in hand I could put it in gear and drive slowly. No steering wheel lock. Floor it and the engine would turn off. Happened on very low octane gasoline.

I'd like to see you try running the engine on diesel after fully warming it up on gasoline, I think that will work much better. I have gotten 4 stroke small engines to run pretty well and make decent power while running on diesel without spark or glow plugs, but the engine must be hot for that to work.

Wow i never expected this to work

It's nice to see attempts at building a different engine. Now you should take it to the dyno to measure its power output, emissions and torque.

Early car's used a glow plug ignition system, using paraffin torch to heat the plugs

Ooh also try the two-stroke motor with the hot bulb plugs and diesel

This is beautiful.

Filipinos do this all the time, actually. Usually on things like farm trucks. Even a low compression engine can run diesel, albeit not very well. Generally diesels tend to inject fuel as the piston is moving up, and gasoline mixes fuel on the down stroke of the intake stroke. This is why you are getting the backfiring, and why it won't rev well. Also, diesel tends to burn slower than gasoline, which would explain the low rev, the cylinder isn't reaching max pressure at the right time. Running a slightly lean idle should fix the idle issues, I would think as the cylinders would stay hotter. I would say try moving the cam one tooth advanced (open the intake and exhaust earlier). It might close the intake early enough to build a little more compression, at the expense of airflow at high rpm. Diesel engines run by "excess air", meaning you rev them by adding air to the same amount of diesel. I think you need to lean it out quite a bit to get it to run normally.

Gotta give credit to the starter motor 😂

One of these days, they’re gonna stumble onto something incredible

Here in Texas...two stroke is amazing

try a mixture ratio of fuels gasoline and diesel. also modify the carburetor so you have better fuel adjustment control. change valve timing if possible without valves hitting pistons.

The volatile fuels probably would've worked better had the glow plugs been duty cycled to keep them from igniting before higher compression was reached, nearer to TDC.

For ethanol fuel you need to open the carburetor jets around 30% more and it will run. Don't give up on it!

Needs more rotating mass put a auxillary big flywheel off harmonic balancer so it can rotate push thru on idle power heavier flywheel will help propel power....also moving the distributor to tighten or loosen when pistons compress will also need to be tried

Nitro methane is working with rc glow plugs because they are made from platinum. The main reason for nitro methane is to react with platinum and keep the plug glowing.. here you are not having so much benefit of using it as fuel because your glow plugs are not made from platinum.. your videos are so much entertaining.. thank you!!

Diesel needs heat to vaporize properly. If you pre heat the diesel it will vaporize through the carb better. Run a steel fuel line and wrap it around the exhaust manifold to pre heat the fuel. I have run a gas engine on vaporized gasoline, alcohol, diesel, and kerosene. It's all about getting in to the cylinders in a vaporized form at the proper time.

What's up with the Peter griffin music lol jk awesome video!!

As long as you aren’t running lean, this just works because the flame front won’t move forward willingly during the compression stroke, and doesn’t really make power until it squishes.

I second the idea of hockey puck pistons!!!

i want to see a part 2

Guy try to see if you could do if the spark plus will make a diesel engine will run

Bet it would run great with mechanical injectors feeding the intake like you’ve done before. I’m sure the carburetor has a tough time atomizing the diesel

I would of liked to see what would happen if you used that rc glow fuel with the spark ignition and the carburetor tuned to supply at least 30-35% more fuel than it did with gasoline depending on the percentage of nitromethane of the rifle glow fuel. I know when a four cycle compression ignition engine with a glow plug is converted to spark ignition the engine will produce between 40% to 75% more power depending on the percentage of nitro in the fuel, the cam profile and number of cylinders. when a .5-1hp 20cc four cycle gasoline weedeater engine is tuned to run just on methanol it'll make almost 3hp start adding nitro and it's not hard to get to 5 hp but at that point you need aftermarket piston aftermarket cam aftermarket head studs, head gasket and rod bolts and the head and deck should be machined to raise the compression if done right that 20cc engine will make the same power as your average lawnmower engine on gasoline. if you had tuned the carburetor for the methanol/nitro fuel blend I'm sure it would of worked OK but if you had used that fuel and the spark ignition that little engine would have made big power as long as the ARF was kept safe nitromethane adds more oxygen and makes more power than nitrous but has near 1 to 1 fuel ratio and methanol is 5 to 1 naturally aspirated so a lot more fuel is burned compared to gasoline`s 14.7 to 1 fuel ratio which means a lot more power

With the rc fuel you need to increase the jetting size and tune the air fuel screws and idle, and i bet it would run way better

So much for a distributor and firing orders. All on all the time.👌

The biggest problem with trying diesel is the fact these Ladas have too low compression to properly ignite it. If I were to try though, I would start it on gas and switch to diesel while it's running. Starting on diesel and kerosene is hard, that's why for a long time farm equipment had two types of fuel, one for starting, then the other for cost effective operation.

Really creative! Btw

I did the glow plug thing years ago on a 12hp kohler lawn tractor engine , it would only idle rough ,same as the car did, I had thought a diesel injection would time the fuel and work better

Tie chock half way carb will suck more gas but keep it from sucking less air

it's firing on the intake stroke. that's one reason why gasoline engines need variable timing. if they just spark all the time they will fire before the intake valve is closed, and what you have with glow plugs that are just like a spark plug firing all the time.

Ultra high compression and the heat generated by it is what causes combustion of the air/fuel diesel mixture in a diesel engine. 'glow plugs' are only necessary as a catalyst to get the 'process' started momentarily, usually on cold days. Gasoline engines to not produce high enough compression to induce combustion of diesel fuel, they rely on a spark to ignite the lower compressed gasoline mixture to ignite. They do produce (barely) enough compression to ignite diesel fuel with the 'help' of continuous glow plug operation to provide the added heat necessary, as shown in this video.

that worked well 😮

9:25 the bottom of the air filter housing is glowing red hot😮

You need the uridium glow plugs with the platinum resistors.

I used to make thick ass smoke screens with my old car. I routed washer fluid through the intake and put diesel in the washer fluid tank. Before you yell at me, it was a beater.

There is two ways to go i would like to see it rev with turbo. Or put injectors on engine and maybe spice it even higher together with turbo

Did it create enough vacuum to suck in the fuel? I remember I couldn't get my carbureted motor to rev when the vacuum hose had a tear in it. It was a Suzuki Srad

I enjoyed this experiment. The nitro rc fuel is primarily methanol, approximately 75% methanol, 16% nitro and the rest is oil. Normally a blend of synthetic 2stroke oil and caster oil. To burn properly methanol requires a ratio of around 6 parts air to 1 part fuel.... Normal gasoline is 1 part fuel to 14 parts air. With the 16%nitro in the fuel, it would be better to run even richer.... 5/1 possibly Methanol also burns much more slowly, so if running standard ignition the timing can be advanced somewhat I would like to see an experiment where the car can run properly with the nitro to see how powerful it is. To do this the jets in the carb will need to be modified to supply 2.5x the amount of fuel from standard/current arrangement

Amazing, who would have thought? That's me set for the Mad Max days ahead!

pulse width modulate a fuel injector for added delivery!