Test drive UAZ 469 1972 - HB SUV
Lanky guy from the Volga
Foreign companies that give the individuality of cars and their bodies are often called a beautiful word atelier. Their domestic colleagues at best get a modest tuning company. Meanwhile, there are enough creators of exclusive cars with us. In Togliatti they are created from the models of a vase, gas is modernized in Nizhny Novgorod, but in Ulyanovsk, of course, they experiment with UAZs of all kind and suit. The products of their car factory are loved here. And the fact that it is imperfect by modern standards gives only great freedom to creativity. So, two Ulyanovsk firms ... No, two ateliers are better - Astro -Auto and North Palmyra - created a car called Koyot. There are so few untouched details that the serial UAZ 31519.10 can only be called a donor conditionally. The goal of the deepest alterations is to show what can be done from the notable, according to the majority, cars. The authors say: everything is excited only by a vertical take -off.
The Ulyanovsk Auto Cuties paid attention to all the main components of the car: the body, power unit, transmission, suspension, interior.
The base of the machine is intended by 200 mm by building a body and frame. It turned out something between an ordinary UAZ and a long leopard. In this case, the rear seats were shifted 100 mm forward, evenly distributing the length of the length between the load in the trunk and the rear passengers. For the sake of the same passengers, the opening of the rear doors and, of course, made the doors themselves rectangular in the upper part, and not bended, like serial machines.
The back of the hinged door and wide military bridges are borrowed from Bars. Wheel gearboxes significantly increase the road clearance, which at least compensates for partial deterioration of patency caused by lengthening of the car. But they did not limit such compensation. The coyot has expanded wheeled niches for installing large tires - with an external diameter of up to 32 inches (in the photo the shower car into ordinary ones). Thus, at the request of the owner, the car turns into an all -terrain vehicle.
Changed access to the motor compartment. The hoods of serial machines have roundings, and in the coyot, the cover is flat - the roundings are cut off from the hood and welded to the wings.
An electric hatch is mounted in the center of the roof, and on its sides there are two long tinted glasses (see photo). A sensation of a larger volume of the cabin is created - this is how they are now done on foreign cars.
The engine at the machine was UMZ-4218.10, a carburetor, with a volume of 2.89 liters and a capacity of 62 kW/84 liters. With. He was dismantled, channels were finalized in the cylinder head, and was passed the latter, increasing the compression degree. They installed another distribution shaft (manufactured in the factory), imported pistons, rings, seals, high -quality liners. They say that now the motor is spinning up to 7000 rpm (!) And on the motor stand lays 86 kW/122 liters. With.
The gearbox is five -speed from cars of the 60th family. She, like the handout, was dismantled and ... as it should be assembled, changing all seals and bearings along the way. By order, even gears and synchronizers are ready to finalize to reduce noise and make a more clear gear shift.
By the way, about noise. After the boiling of those parts of the body that are attached with screws on serial machines, and the repaints installed vibro, noise and thermal insulation of Neuzbaster. Then they conducted an audio training with the installation of speakers.
The place of standard door seals was taken by modified elastic bands from VAZ cars. Weighed with vibration insulation, well -adjusted doors began to close, like Gelendevagen's. But most importantly, at minus 15-17C overboard and working half-blooding the stove on the rear seats, do not freeze even in a shirt. The latter, of course, the merit of not only seals, but in many ways - an advanced stove with air ducts. The main secrets could not be found out, but we know that everything was assembled and installed hermetically, without cracks, including in the place of the air intake. Maybe this is the secret?
Changes can be listed half a day. I had to climb into the wheel gearboxes and hubs; replace cardans, shock absorbers and springs; install a combination of devices from VAZ classics; intervene in the cooling system and steering. Perhaps only the hands did not reach the vertical take -off - even strange.
The car in comparison with the usual is good. However, with all alterations, the buyer will cost 550 thousand rubles. A lot of? We remind you once again that this is primarily a demonstration sample.
Clients can choose what of the named they agree to pay. If for everything - at their disposal one of the most unusual UAZs will be at their disposal, but still not Gelendevagen and not Land Cruiser - this should be prepared for this. Let's say, despite the expensive sound insulation, the car is noisy. It still consists mainly of domestic components. They are one hundred percent in them even the second parents of the car. However, enough about sad. Experience shows that tuning UAZs take well. Most likely, as a second or third car in a wealthy family - for fishing, hunting and other forms of communication with nature. Often you have to hear that in this capacity they are indispensable.
The combination of instruments and steering wheel is borrowed from the VAZ classics, but the hatch from expensive ones with electric drive.
The coyote has wide bridges with wheeled gearboxes and a spring suspension in front.
For a true all -terrain vehicle, the winch is akin to a rescue circle.
Improved front seats are more convenient than regular ones. Changes of the panel are cosmetic.
UAZ-hunter
An example of more mundane tuning and, perhaps, more targeted - a hunting car created by Mega -Motors based on the UAZ minibus. It differs from the serial machine with coloring, the presence of a winch and self -locking inter -axis differentials. A fully converted salon can be heated by an autonomous heater - this is a Russian analogue of Webasto. On the sides there are sofas that are laid out for the night for the entire width of the cabin. In the roof - a large hatch; A modified combination of devices and more solid front seats than in the standard. There is a hydraulic booster. Thermal insulation has been improved. The price is a little more than 200 thousand rubles.
Alexander Budkin. Photo by the author
Source: The magazine "Driving"
