Test drive VAZ 21099 1990-2004 sedan

The leader of the Redskins

VAZ -21099 - Tomagavk for road wars
 
They acquired this ninety -ninth in 1996 completely new. In 2001, the car inherited from close relatives into the full property of the current owner. The car managed to visit several accidents and looked pretty battered. Having received the keys to the car, the new owner first of all audited the matred ...
 
Having identified the first ambush in the bottom of the car (iron rustled to through holes), Artem, in parallel with the dismantling of the salon and welded work, dismantled the engine and handed it to the specialists in tuning domestic power units. The idea was to convert a carburetor engine with a working volume of 1600 cm3 into an injector. As a result, the motor received a new head with extended channels and with eight valves of increased diameter: exhaust - 39 mm, inlets - 34 mm. To improve the characteristics of the car in craving at increased speeds, VAZ production with a rise of 12.1 mm inlet valves was introduced into the engine. At the inlet, the American zero resistance filter Vibrant stood. The exhaust tract mounted on pipes with a diameter of 51 mm begins with a collector (in a spider spider), in which the pipes are branched according to scheme 4-2-1.
 
Feroz resonator, stainless steel Tuninger muffler with an output barrel with a diameter of 105 mm. The muffler bank gives out a truly dental-diocent sound of a flaw. And he can delight the hearing of any avid street racer.
 
Meanwhile, the changes affected not only the sound characteristics of the car. With electronic brains from Bosch, thoroughly seized according to an exclusive computer program, a modernized motor gives 125 horses at seven thousand revolutions. Such a serious application for victory predetermined the production of no less serious modifications of other components of the ninety -ninth.
 
The rear regular brake drums were uncompromisingly written off into scraps, and a disc brake system was installed instead. On all four wheels, ventilated brake discs and Lukas pads stood. The VAZ-21099 suspension also worked: in front of the Koni Sport shock absorbers with a three-position adjustment, at the stern of the Plaza Sport rack. All four springs from a crax with Super Sport with high rigidity. But this seemed few, so one round was cut from each spring. Due to what, in its technical indicator, the suspension ninety -ninth as much as possible was selected for the characteristics of the super -foal suspension of a real rally car.
 
Wheel wheels - forged, painted with white enamel Slikk. On the front pair - Fulda tires, on the rear wheels Auto Gauge rubber. The size is single: 195/50 R15. As a result, the road clearance at the VAZ-21099 from 165 mm decreased almost to a pack of cigarettes. The car goes perfectly in turning, but Artyom had to forget about comfortable driving. The next in the improvement program was a five -speed gearbox. Without adhesive, in the KP, they changed the main pair, giving it a value of 4.3. With such a KP, the little car turned into a real king of traffic lights, and our car owner with his swallow became a regular of night pokatushki for a quarter mile. The general surroundings of the night racing encouraged Artem to work on tuning of the interior and exterior.
 
Humpbacked space
 
The plastic body kit installed on the VAZ -21099 has a sonorous name - space (either an unknown author of Aerokita wanted to hint at the similarity of the form of the rear bumper with the stern of the interstellar spacecraft, or the bluish tint of enormous tumor in the front bamper allowed the designer to conduct a subtle associative connection between the trivial plastic and endless cosmos).
Be that as it may, but in the chopped body the ninety -ninth plastic aerokitis fit well and even harmoniously. In the exterior of the cosmos, the complete absence of pens and larvae of locks is perceived for granted. When pressed on the keychain, the doors themselves open, bouncing 2-5 cm. Effectively, damn it, and you just need to slightly redo the central electric castle, put the standard recesses under the handles and confuse to paint. In this case, five colors were poured onto the body. Indian combat coloring, of course, added originality, highlighting a car from slender rows of cars with similar aerokitis.
 
Yes, still pay attention to the extended wheeled arches - this is not plastic overlays. The owner personally - with the help of a sledgehammer and a hammer for metalling - changed the configuration of the edges of the arches above the wheels, increasing them by 2 cm. It turned out very worthy. The controversial detail in the exterior is an air intake on the hood a la Subaru. Fiberglass an overlap fused with an iron of a hood without cracks and gaps. However, stylistically the hump on the hood is a clearly superfluous detail. However, Artem claims that the pompous air intake is made for purely technical motives in order to organize improved cooling to the motor.
 
Overcoat
 
The salon is designed in a gray-blue color scheme. Torpedo and ceiling are covered with ascetic gray carpet. In its texture, the material resembles a soldier's overcoat. The steering wheel is from Momo, the handle of the KP - from Audi TT. The UNP chair is only for the driver, all other passengers are sitting on regular seats. Additional devices stood on the torpedo: a tachometer with a light indicator and a voltmeter. The cabiners of turning on headlights and overall lights look rather stylish. In the central part of the ceiling, two neon lamps are fixed. In their bluish light, read the newspaper, of course, it is impossible, but they create an atmosphere of intimacy one hundred percent.
 
And the music here is not a shameful. In the two front doors, the mid -frequency speakers of Mystery flaunt on specially built catwalks, high -frequency coils are implanted into the front racks. From the rear, the sound is pumped through the MB Quart subwoofer. The JVC head device is paired with a 5-channel Callcell amplifier.
 
And soon the ninety -ninth is waiting for the installation of a nitrogen oxide system, the control panel of these crazy equipment is already available. But this will be a completely different story ...
 
Pavel Olunin
 

Source: Mkobil magazine [12/13/2004]