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    Engine Of The Day: MEMZ-968

    In Soviet Russia, Junkyard Gets Down On YOU!

    Cars Of The Soviet Union: The Definitive History, by Andy Thompson

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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    05/02/09

    In reply to Engine Of The Day: MEMZ-968
    I LOVE the sound. I thought I'd hate it, thought I wouldn't care for its frankly dinky output or Soviet history but none of that matters. It has an earthy, gutteral, frank sound. "I am engine! I move you," it says.


    Indeed you do, stalwart little heart.

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    Image of Michael J Backus Michael J Backus
    05/02/09

    In reply to Engine Of The Day: MEMZ-968
    No wonder Kruschev thought the USSR would "bury" the US. How could a Chrysler 426 Hemi or Ford 428CJ or Chevy 427 compare to the MEMZ-968? We were clearly outclassed.
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    05/02/09

    @Michael J Backus: Which would you rather fix with a rusty pipe wrench in an unheated shack in -50° weather?
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    05/02/09

    In reply to Engine Of The Day: MEMZ-968
    I think that's really a 90 degree V4, Murilee.


    Does anyone else think that this engine would work great in a motorcycle? Maybe it would look something like this:

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    Image of therealhdc therealhdc
    05/02/09

    @Ash86 aka Monsieur Discontinuité Jean Baptiste Marie de Hydropneumatique: [www.custommoto.com.ua]
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    05/02/09

    @Ash86 aka Monsieur Discontinuité Jean Baptiste Marie de Hyd...: You're right, that does look like 90 degrees.
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    05/02/09

    @therealhdc: Wow, it's like Rule 34 of engine pr0n: there will always be an engine transplant out there somewhere, no matter how bizarre. Like the Wankel Lada.
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    Image of Plecostomus [Tyrrell] Plecostomus [Tyrrell]
    05/02/09

    In reply to Engine Of The Day: MEMZ-968
    That is... a contraption.


    I don't recognize ANYTHING there. It's as alien-looking to me as a wankel engine.


    I love it.


    Thanks for posting this, Murilee.

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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    05/02/09

    @Plecostomus will never win COTD... but has a: You do realize that GAZ made a Wankel production engine, right? If only I could get some photos of it...
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    Image of therealhdc therealhdc
    05/02/09

    @Murilee Martin: I'm not exactly aware of this. I know for a fact though that VAZ did a quite sizable production run of Wankel Ladas about ten years back.
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    05/02/09

    @therealhdc: Crap, I meant VAZ! Anyone got photos of one underhood? My Cyrillic typing skills aren't up to the task.
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    Image of Franzouse Franzouse
    05/03/09

    @Murilee Martin: apparently it was the VAZ 21018:

    [t613.blog.auto.cz]

    thank god my gf speaks Czech.
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    Image of bdon bdon
    05/02/09

    In reply to Engine Of The Day: MEMZ-968
    "a true proletariatmob". ile. allow some quick math ...720/4 != 16. a 45 degree v4?! crazy. How in freakin hell did that stay in production that long, why not just a boxer engine?
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    05/02/09

    @bdon: It's too difficult to get to the heads on a boxer engine. The MEMZ had ease of maintenance as the #1 priority.
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    Image of D-fktv: snarky comments for almost everything. D-fktv: snarky comments for almost everything.
    05/02/09

    In reply to Engine Of The Day: MEMZ-968
    sweet. Murilee, you and I share much in common.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    05/02/09

    @D-fktv: snarky comments for almost everything.: Hey! Nice try but stop trying to muscle in on our Ms. Martin!
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    05/02/09

    @D-fktv: snarky comments for almost everything.: You can't share me. No way! I am all Murilee's. Once she lifts that restraining order.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    05/02/09

    In reply to Engine Of The Day: MEMZ-968
    Watching this. Listening to The National Anthem.


    Lack-of-God bless.

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    Image of philibuster philibuster
    05/02/09

    In reply to Engine Of The Day: MEMZ-968
    V-4 huh? Why did the Russians always have to be different? I mean, what the hell is the left hand rule?
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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    05/02/09

    @philibuster: And the Swedes, oh, the Swedes...
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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    05/02/09

    @A pistonforging player: Don't forget the Italians, either.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    05/02/09

    @A pistonforging player: I always thought it funny how Volvos were designed so normally (aside from the squareness and emphasis on safety) while Saabs were just so damn bizarre.
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    05/02/09

    @ForgedyPistonshroom: They are the Yin and Yang of Sweden. In a country where it is either sunny or dark, you're blonde or not, and it is summer or winter, the dichotomy of Saab/Volvo should not be all that surprising.
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    Image of BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ
    05/02/09

    @philibuster: @A pistonforging player: BTW the Saab engine was a Ford V4 from the Ford Taunus line-up
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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    05/02/09

    @Forged Pistons engineerd to Forged Pistons: C'mon, everyone's blonde. Don't be ridiculous.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    05/02/09

    In reply to Engine Of The Day: MEMZ-968
    This is one obscure engine, internetz-wise.

    But if it survived in USSR all that time, given the climates, the roads or lack thereof, and the general poverty, I am deeply impressed. A vodka shot for you, little MeMZ!
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    Image of Mobius Mobius
    05/02/09

    In reply to Engine Of The Day: MEMZ-968
    The Soviets had some pretty awesome names.


    But burdened them with alphanumeric designations in the end.

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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    05/02/09

    In reply to Engine Of The Day: MEMZ-968
    In Mother Russia, the proletariat were not concerned with power. No, the horsepower had to be spread evenly in a truly Communist fashion. Therefore, instead of me having 210 hp and my neighbor having 500 hp, we each get 42 hp.


    Yes, 42 hp. Because 42 is the answer to life, the universe and everything.

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    Image of Mobius Mobius
    05/02/09

    @Forged Pistons engineerd to Forged Pistons: But... but... 1+1 is not 42! That... that's unpossible!
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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    05/02/09

    @Mobius_1: What is six nine times?
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    05/02/09

    @A pistonforging player: Forty two. That's it. That's all there is.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    05/02/09

    @A pistonforging player: Errh, fifty-four?


    NO! OF COURSE NOT!

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    Image of Mobius Mobius
    05/02/09

    @ForgedyPistonshroom: "Hey, is that you, Plushroom? They've got you too? Did you commit thoughtcrime as well?"


    forty two, it's forty two, everything is forty two

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    Image of Doc 2¢ Doc 2¢
    05/02/09

    In reply to Engine Of The Day: MEMZ-968
    Anyone got a video of this socialist machine running? I'd like to hear it's roar against the oppression.
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    Image of therealhdc therealhdc
    05/02/09

    @doctor 1 penny: Here you go -

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    05/02/09

    @therealhdc: A strangely beautiful sound.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    05/02/09

    @ForgedyPistonshroom: I think the front wheels are off a newer Lada. Probably running two snow tires.


    No, now I see he has three and one. Cheesy newer alloys and a flat tire?

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    Image of therealhdc therealhdc
    05/02/09

    @ForgedyPistonshroom: It's just a plastic hubcaps. Zaporozhets actually uses a rather unique wheels, with four lugnuts around the perimeter of the brake drum. So these wheels have a quite large center hole, around nine or ten inches )
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    05/02/09

    @therealhdc: Oh wow, gotcha. So he's just lost one and put the chrome cap back on then.


    Heart-click for knowing this stuff.

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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    05/02/09

    In reply to Engine Of The Day: MEMZ-968
    Just imagine how many '56 Buicks are powered by this engine in Cuba today!
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    Image of jodark jodark
    04/19/09

    In reply to In Soviet Russia, Junkyard Gets Down On YOU!
    All of those pics have a certain glow about them... One that probably shines day or night, because what you aren't told is that those pics were taken at Chernobyl...
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    04/19/09

    @jodark: That's why the grass is so green!
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    Image of WilliamG. WilliamG.
    04/19/09

    In reply to In Soviet Russia, Junkyard Gets Down On YOU!
    In Soviet Russia, hooker stuffs YOU in trunk!


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    Image of Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing
    04/19/09

    @WilliamG.:

    Bravo on SO many levels...!
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