Tuning salon Gazelle - creating your own style. Tuning Gazelle - what to improve in the first place? Ceiling sheathing gazelle farmer

Gazelle in all versions of the body is a car that is perfectly adapted to the conditions of domestic roads and is reliable and easy to operate. However, much in the design of this car does not meet modern standards of comfort, so gazelles very often resort to tuning.

1 External tuning of the Gazelle - the pursuit of exclusivity

First of all, Gazelle owners make an alternative body kit. To do this, you need to install a new front bumper. As a rule, this is a bumper made of plastic, with slots for fog lights. In specialized stores, you can find a bumper that fits the old mounts, and installing it yourself is not difficult. You need to unscrew the fasteners on both sides with a screwdriver, remove the old bumper and install a new one, as in the video presented. The color of the bumper can be matched to the color of the body. The installation of plastic lining on the body, as well as plastic decorative thresholds, will also become easy for the car owner.

To give the appearance of the Gazelle 4x4 brutality and improve the off-road capabilities of the car, you can install protective metal arcs or a kenguryatnik. Some of the Gazelle owners are limited to installing metal arcs on the sides of the bumper. Installing a kenguryatnik on a 4x4 Gazelle is a simple procedure, but you must have certain skills. You can see how to put the kenguryatnik on your own in the presented video.

Very often, owners tune the front and rear optics of the Gazelle, for which LEDs are used or additional fog lights are installed.

To install LED lights directly into the headlight unit, it is necessary to dismantle it and completely disassemble it. To do this, disconnect the contacts, remove the latches, pull out the headlight. Then carefully separate the headlight assembly from the glass. Using glue, we attach a pre-purchased LED strip either around the entire perimeter or in certain areas. In this case, you can change the color of the headlight reflector, for which ordinary foil or paint is used.

To improve the aerodynamic properties of the Gazelle, it is necessary to install a body kit, as well as plastic side window deflectors, deflectors on the hood of the car and a special fairing that is mounted on the roof of the car. These accessories are made of lightweight material, have special fasteners - it will not be difficult to install them with your own hands. This will not only give the car an exclusive look, but also increase efficiency, and at cruising speeds it will improve the acoustic effect.

To give more individuality to the car, Gazelle owners use the following accessories and elements:

side mirrors with turn signal repeaters and heating system and electric drive,
alternative grilles and plastic body kit of the front bumper,
original rims and improved foreign-made tires,
towbars, roof rack, ladder and other additional elements of the body structure.

You can install all the presented tuning accessories with your own hands if you have a standard set of tools and the necessary parts. You can buy them in tuning salons or specialized stores. When tuning the outer part of the Gazelle 4x4, the main thing is not to overdo it, otherwise the car will not only lose its individuality, but will also become like a spacecraft. The choice is yours, and the scope for tuning the outer part of the gazelle is huge!

2 Tuning the cabin and cab on the Gazelle

As a rule, when tuning the interior of the Gazelle, the first thing to do is change the old-style steering wheel and gearshift lever. For different versions of the Gazelle, you can find new steering wheels in the style of "elegans" with wooden inserts. This option is especially relevant for the Gazelle Business version, since the steering wheel is fully compatible with standard mounts. How to remove and install the steering wheel can be seen in the video. To improve the cabin of the Gazelle, tuning details such as:

additional interior heater and power accessories (window regulators, mirror adjustment, etc.),
new seats and new side door trim,
under-ceiling console for storing various things and a table on the front panel,
new torpedo and instrument panel lighting to LED,
improved acoustic system and on-board computer.

To install power windows with your own hands, you must have a set of tools (wrenches, screwdrivers, etc.). The mechanical part of the changes is simple, but it is better to use the help of a specialist to connect the wiring. To replace the mechanism itself, using a conventional screwdriver, you need to unscrew the fasteners of the window handle and everything that holds the door trim. Next, you need to carefully remove the casing - this will give access to the standard lifting mechanism. After that, two bolts are unscrewed that secure the carriage to the door glass. Next, fix the glass in the upper position and, using a 10 wrench, unscrew the lower and upper nuts securing the lift mechanism to the door. Next, three bolts securing the cable mechanism, which is removed from the door, are unscrewed. An electronic mechanism is installed in its place, and the assembly takes place in the reverse order.

3 Technical modernization of the Gazelle

Tuning the technical part begins with strengthening the rear leaf spring suspension. To do this, you need to install additional sheets of metal. This will increase the load capacity and increase rigidity. In the front part of the suspension, it is recommended to replace the standard shock absorbers with gas ones, with a longer resource. By installing spacers in the springs, you can achieve a slight increase in clearance. Spacers are rounded polyurethane washers that are inserted into the holes between the springs. Some owners of Gazelle 4x4 resort to installing a pneumatic suspension, but this is an expensive procedure that cannot be done by hand, and this option does not always justify itself.

Engine tuning is done in several ways. The simplest and most common is presented in the video - this is chip tuning. It allows you to improve the power, traction and efficiency of the motor without mechanical changes. In the case of older versions of Gazelles, it is relevant to replace the standard ZMZ 403 carburetor engine with a more modern analogue with direct injection, or forcing an existing unit. To do this, you can increase the diameter of the pistons, regrind the cylinder head, replace the exhaust system with a more modern one. All these changes are best done in the service, as they require sophisticated technical equipment.

Like any other car, the Gazelle is often tuned. Moreover, tuning is done on any models - be it a flatbed truck or an all-metal van. What are the first improvements to a commercial vehicle?

Tuning cab truck Gazelle

There are motorists who believe that a roof fairing is installed for beauty. A spoiler may be a decoration, but first of all it is intended to improve the technical characteristics of the car. With a fairing, 5-10% of fuel is saved, the car becomes more stable on the track. And this is not an advertisement for a product at all - the spoiler is really a useful improvement of the Gazelle.

It is especially effective on vans or tall Gazelles, where the resistance to the oncoming air flow is quite high. It is the fairing that reduces the resistance to the oncoming wind.

Salon tuning

Basically, the Gazelle is needed not for beauty, but for business. Therefore, car owners seek to improve the car with benefit. A useful addition is the installation of a burglar alarm. For a “workhorse”, an anti-theft system with auto start will not be superfluous. Drivers of commercial vehicles need the car to start in the morning without problems in any frost. Autorun will come in handy here.

For the convenience of driving in the cabin, drivers change the steering wheel - with a sports steering wheel, it becomes more convenient for someone to drive a car. But convenience is debatable - most likely, many people like the appearance of such a steering wheel.

Original tuning of the Gazelle salon

Many install beautiful seat covers on the seats - they look aesthetically pleasing, besides, the seat upholstery does not get dirty or deteriorate. The seats themselves on the Gazelle do not change often, they are already quite comfortable. If someone changes, then he puts only one driver's "seat" - from some cool foreign car, or a sports-type seat (for example, "Recaro").

Plastic hood for Gazelle

The need to replace the Gazelle hood can be described for several reasons at once:

Constructive. The tilted hood is exposed to frequent external influences - impacts of stones, insects, which leads to frequent damage to the paintwork.
Technical. Installing a plastic hood with an air intake will help provide more intensive engine cooling, which is important for the hot seasons of the year.
Aesthetic. Installing a plastic hood will help change the appearance of the Gazelle without serious costs.

The hood for the Gazelle is produced by several manufacturers. There are several main directions that modify the appearance of the element:

Restyled version. Suggests a more muscular midsection. This option is produced at a plant in Nizhny Novgorod.
A hood with an air intake and side “predatory” slots that imitate additional slots for air passage.

The direction is considered relevant when the hood is installed unpainted, or a plastic surface. Among the shortcomings of the plastic hood can be called the unevenness of the gaps formed in the body. It should be noted that there are no fundamental differences in the installation of a plastic hood on a Gazelle.

Tuning salon or cab Gazelle

Probably, there is no greater scope for possible work than the implementation of interior modernization in the Gazelle.

Replacing hard uncomfortable seats.
Installing a softer, possibly in a new color, instrument panel upholstery. Changing the appearance of the central tunnel.
Replacement of interior body panels.

Carrying out the interior tuning should begin with determining the budget. If finances are limited, then first of all it is worth replacing the steering wheel with a steering wheel with a puffier rim. In practice, a two-tone steering wheel is often used, when the central cushion is brighter.

The current option for refinement will be the tight-fitting gray plastic parts of the center console with a more practical leatherette, Alcantara.

With great financial opportunities, the central panel is finalized by installing drawers, decorating air duct openings.

For a passenger car, it is worth changing the interior lighting by equipping the passage with LED lights. Installing LED strips has a number of undeniable advantages:

Ease of installation.
Low power consumption.
Long service life.
Soft light of any color.

In practice, most often they provide illumination of the passage of the passenger compartment of the Sobol model or fixed-route taxis, a step at the exit, the driver's workplace and the passenger's glove box.

When installing LEDs, it is necessary to provide the possibility of separate control of the LEDs, or to link their operation to the car's ignition system.

Chip tuning Gazelle

We can highlight such problematic points in the operation of the Gazelle engine:

Failures in the work with the rapid unwinding of the motor.
Floating speed of the power unit.
Lack of traction at low and medium speeds.

It is advisable to carry out tuning of the motor with the constant use of the car in urban traffic, when the car is running under load. As practice shows, Gazelka behaves more confidently after forcing in this way when overtaking on the highway.

It is advisable to carry out chip tuning at a service station. At the same time, the cost of such work will not exceed several thousand rubles.

Gazelle engine tuning

The imperfection of the design of the base motor M-402 involves a number of measures for its technical improvement:

Installing a weighted flywheel. Allows you to slightly increase the torque of the engine.
Replacing the air filter with a zero resistance design. This allows up to 10% increase in motor power.
Carrying out additional "sealing" of the motor. The M-402 engine is characterized by the frequent appearance of oil leaks, therefore, additional lubrication of gaskets with sealant, as well as replacing gaskets with similar cork parts, will be relevant for the old Gazelle.
Refinement.

The last operation is connected with the dismantling of the standard fan from the motor, with its simultaneous replacement with an electrical modification. Usually, for the movement of the machine, the cooling system effectively copes with cooling by pumping antifreeze in a large circle. In the increased load mode, the electric blower will turn on.

For this purpose, equipment is installed on the engine according to the following scheme, the electrical connector of which is designed to be connected to the points:

Conclusion 85 - to the "plus" of the ignition switch.
We connect wire 30 through a fuse to the "plus" of the battery.
Conclusion 86 - to the temperature sensor.
We connect wire 87 to ground.

After finishing work, you need to check the correct direction of the air flow, which should go to the engine. Otherwise, the positive wire and ground are interchanged.

The actual type of refinement of the power unit on the Gazelle is the installation of a hydraulic vacuum clutch booster. When working on delivery modifications of the "Farmer" type or as urban transport, drivers often complained of pain in the knee joints from frequent pressing of the pedal.

To upgrade the unit, you can use an amplifier from classic VAZ models, which are more suitable in size for the GAZelle engine compartment. It should be noted that in parallel it is necessary to change the expansion tank of the cooling system. In this case, the same part from will be a good replacement.

Tuning headlights on the Gazelle

The efficiency of the head light can also be increased. At the same time, the installation of LED running lights also improves the safety of the car.

Replacing standard headlights with more offers the greatest number of different tuning options. However, if a large number of different options are offered for new-style headlights, then 15-year-old headlights are preferred not to be upgraded. But the installation of new headlights will require significant alterations to the front end, which is not always justified. Therefore, sometimes it may be sufficient to restore the luminosity of the headlight.

A possible simple tuning option would be this Gazelle update:

We replace glass diffusers. At the same time, you can use LED strips, which we fix with ordinary gluing. Instead of installing LEDs, you can embed running lights into the bumper as a separate element.

We line the headlight reflectors with a suitable tin or special foil.
We replace the regular orange direction indicators with similar devices with white optics.
We carefully carry out the sealing of the headlight.

We install the headlights in place, connect the LEDs, adjust the headlights.

bumper tuning

A simple option for tuning an old-style Gazelle can be a more modern one. Possible values for such a replacement could be:

Improved airflow to the cooling radiator.
The possibility of harmonious inclusion in the architecture of the front fog lamps.
Change in the aerodynamic drag of the car as a whole.
Change in appearance.

As a rule, the cost of even models made of high-quality plastic does not exceed several thousand rubles. The bumper can be selected both in body color and unpainted.

Tuning an old-style Gazelle is not only an opportunity to improve the comfort and technical capabilities of the car, but also a necessity, which is caused by the length of use of the car.

Modernization of the interior of the car is primarily designed to improve functionality, create a unique style and increase comfort. Gazelle is the most popular commercial vehicle in Russia, and each owner tries to decorate or improve the interior of his car in his own way.

1 When is interior tuning necessary?

Tuning is a rather broad concept, as even small changes, such as new floor mats or seat covers, can change the interior decoration and be considered interior tuning elements. The convenience of such changes is that they can be easily carried out with your own hands, without the help of specialists or any equipment. But in the event that we are talking about a complete and serious tuning of the interior in the Gazelle, investments of certain financial resources and time will be required.

In any case, tuning is always interesting and exciting, and if you combine it with competent changes in the "appearance" of this truck, you can achieve excellent results and significantly distinguish your car from other road users. DIY, includes many changes, but it's worth talking about the most popular and useful!

2 Popular directions for tuning Gazelle

The most popular among the owners are such changes as the hauling of various elements in the car interior. This means changing the instrument panel, seats, headlining and side door trim in leather, suede or other fabric. As a rule, it is rather difficult to do the upholstery of the interior with your own hands, for this it is better to contact special tuning centers, where all the necessary changes will be made to you with high quality and correctly.

No less popular in the process of modernizing the interior in the Gazelle is the complete replacement of standard elements, most often, this means installing a more sporty and comfortable steering wheel and sports seats.

Some owners prefer to install additional functions in the cabin, such as a heated steering wheel or connecting seat ventilation, which is not included even in the most expensive Gazelle model. The installation of special lighting equipment, as well as improved acoustics and additional video monitors, can give the interior of this car a really stylish, attractive and modern look.

3 Additional changes - additional comfort

This car belongs to the commercial class, which means that it is used daily in various weather and climatic conditions. An important part of the modernization and tuning of the interior in this case is an additional interior heater. Due to the shortcomings in the design of the standard heater, an additional heater with an electric pump is installed in the "stove", which allows you to feel completely comfortable in the cold season.

A huge drawback in the Gazelle is the rather poor sound insulation, which is often noticed by many drivers. To change this, we begin high-quality interior tuning with the installation of additional sound insulation. Experts use such materials - vibroplast or modelin, with their help, you can significantly improve the sound insulation of the Gazelle's cabin and thereby increase overall comfort. If we are talking about old models of trucks, then it will not be superfluous to replace the standard multimedia system with a modern on-board computer, which is also an important element of internal tuning.

It is worth saying a few words about the installation of additional lighting in the cabin. Most often, additional lighting is installed in the car doors, in the glove box or directly on the instrument panel, while you can install lights in various colors, which, along with various small accessories such as pedal covers, armrest, updated gear lever knob or new rugs, will allow you to create your own style and unique design.

Changing from behind the wheel of a passenger car behind the wheel of a Gazelle, every driver is apprehensive. And well, how the horse will be skittish! Or just inconvenient to drive - like the UAZ-452 before tuning (page

Unnecessary fears pass quickly. The Gazelle is, without a doubt, the most ergonomic creation of Russian auto designers. Which does not exclude the possibility of a successful tuning of the Gazelle!

Technical tuning Gazelle

Among the supporters of the technical improvement of the Gazelle, only a few advocate a radical re-equipment of the car. At the same time, as a rule, there is no talk of reworking the engine - although citizens who have such an opportunity replace the regular GAZ unit with a Japanese-made engine + automatic transmission.

Such an operation is effective, but expensive and complicated, and requires the involvement of third-party specialists. We are talking about tuning the Gazelle with our own hands, so we touch on a more modest scale. Yes, and there is no particular need for a physical alteration of the Gazel motors.

But with gear shifting you need to deal decisively and irrevocably! The regular mechanical box of the car works flawlessly, but the long lever, with its eternal tendency to uncontrollable rattling and a gradual increase in the range of motion, should be changed.

Installing a neat joystick is easy. Moreover, the cable shifter has become an element of the standard equipment of the latest models of the GAZ minibus.

If you are tuning an onboard Gazelle, it is likely that you need to increase the carrying capacity of the car. In addition to the mandatory strengthening of the frame (see), it is useful to equip the car with air suspension with electronic level control.

Installing air bags is preferable to reinforcing the springs with additional sheets. Increasing the stiffness of the suspension by increasing the thickness of the springs significantly changes the behavior of the car on the road. An unloaded Gazelle with overly stiff springs begins to “goat” on potholes.

The method of shock-sledgehammer repressing of additional spring sheets, common in the practice of amateur tuning of Gazelles, leads to the formation of foci of microscopic cracking of the metal - which ultimately turns into breakage of the springs at maximum vehicle load. Bending the springs without preheating the metal means breaking the products!

An ingenious way to increase the capacity of the body of the old Gazelle is to install an additional rear axle. The third axle is mounted behind the driving wheels, and is a standard rear axle, disconnected from the drive and completely devoid of the gear filling of the gearbox.

The most enterprising car owners make the third axle lifting. The most advanced ones connect an additional axle to the driveline - but only if an economical diesel engine rumbles under the Gazelle hood. Otherwise, you only have to carry gasoline ...

On the net you can find materials about the installation of powerful engines from high-speed passenger cars on the Gazelle (fortunately, a dime a dozen during the dismantling of such units). The economic efficiency of such an event is negligible - although the purchase of a used motor really allows you to save money.

The operating parameters of high-speed power units are hardly applicable to both cargo and passenger Gazelle. The result of the forced "hybridization" of a car is usually increased wear on the transmission, excessive fuel consumption, and accelerated carbon formation in the piston group of the engine.

Tuning the engine cooling system

Which of the "gazelles" is not aware of the problem of summer heat? An engine warmed up to its operating maximum must not be turned off: it boils! Moreover: in many cases, the natural wear of the motor entails, among other things, a decrease in the performance of the cooling system, as a result of which boiling can occur not only when the hot engine is turned off, but even when switching from high speed to idle.

Among the proposed solutions, the engineering service of the Avtodela magazine considers the installation of an additional temperature sensor in the area of the lower pipe to be optimal. The fan, which provides air movement through the radiator cells, must in this case be electrically driven.

A certain number of alterations are required when leaving the standard fan unchanged (with a belt drive) and installing an additional fan between the radiator and the radiator grille of the body. Placement of two fans in one working plane looks much more elegant. In the Gazelle tuning photo, you can see the details of such a rework.

An expensive, but very effective method for improving the cooling system of an old-style Gazelle engine is to replace the standard radiator with a copper one. A half-hearted action is also practiced: installation of an additional copper heat exchanger with the device connected to the lower and upper pipes.

However, installing a factory or handicraft copper tube coil in front of the radiator can ruin the deal. The deterioration of the operation of the cooling system occurs due to a decrease in the intensity of the air flow passing through the cells.

Chip tuning: useful additives to motor productivity

Chip-tuning is necessary for a Gazelle engine to the same extent as any other internal combustion engine needs it. The main aspects of chip tuning are covered in the article on the page. According to car owners, Gazelle chip tuning allows you to:

Make a set of revolutions fast and smooth, without failures and failures;

Eliminate the effect of "floating" speed in all speed ranges;

Increase traction in the acceleration phase.

Do not expect a noticeable reduction in fuel consumption from Gazelle chip tuning. But you will definitely feel the increase in throttle response and traction!

Tuning salon Gazelle

The three of us in the cabin of the onboard Gazelle are frankly cramped. But if you convert the right sofa into a single chair and forget about the second passenger, it will turn out luxurious. Strengthening the feeling of luxury contributes to the close-fitting interior of the Gazelle with white leather.

The "gentleman's set" of tuning the Gazelle interior includes, as a rule:

Equipping doors with electric glass lifts;

Replacing the standard heater with a more efficient one;

Installation of ergonomic seats;

Installation of audiovisual equipment;

Production of a ceiling console (or shelf);

Alteration of the dashboard with the installation of an on-board computer.

Alteration of the sliding glass drive is simple and does not cause difficulties even for a novice "gazelist". Improvement of heating is carried out in two ways. The first way is to replace the fan and radiator with more efficient devices; the second way is to install (usually under the passenger seat) an additional stove, better than an autonomous one.

The overhead console is used to accommodate non-standard electronics, speakers, lighting fixtures. Empirically, it was found out: the use of a home-made ceiling shelf for transporting all sorts of little things sooner or later turns a useful addition into a bomb bay. Make no mistake with your choice!

GAZelle tuning: how not to lose face

The ambitious goals of autotuning are no excuse for those who do not improve, but worsen. How not to do it? Like this!

You can only move in such a car very slowly and away from other vehicles. Yes, and such a design will not last long - unless a steel plate as thick as a hand is hidden under the bottom of the body.

The desire for the stylistic unity of the house, the car and the old wagon, left over from the gypsy grandfather, can play a cruel joke with the owner of the Gazelle. Bright rags, golden fringes, pennants at the windshield, patterns on the windows ... They say half of India and all of Pakistan drive like this. But where is India and where are we? With such tuning of the Gazelle, you won’t go far with us, and not only because of the indignation of the traffic police inspectors.

Swivel seats are a great idea! Doesn't the car always run? Communicating while parking is better face to face! The main thing is the reliability of fixing the seats in the selected position. Otherwise, turns on the road will have to be carried out in two stages: the first is the rotation of the steering wheel; the second is the return of the chair to its original position.

Flocking of body surfaces either comes into fashion, or does not come out of it ... Any fleecy material is an unsurpassed dust accumulator and an inexhaustible source of fibrous deposits, but this is not enough. Flocking is a great way to paint the cab in eye-patch contrasting colors. No one wants to drive in such a car!

Alteration of the body of the Gazelle

The high body of a covered cargo Gazelle is both good and evil. The increase in aerodynamic drag leads to a sharp increase in fuel consumption. A fairing mounted above the cab can improve streamlining. But only if its size and shape are adequate to the geometric parameters of the car. Mistakes in choosing the shape of the fairing are not atoned for by installing additional headlights.

It is no better if the usefulness of the original idea is drowned in layers of pseudo-improvements. Additional air intakes on the hood and above the hood; visor above the windshield; embossed bumper on the Gazelle; the lower side kit is nothing more than banal excesses.

And even the incredible light tuning of the Gazelle does not fix things. Such a car is noticeable, looks catchy - especially at night - but is ugly. And for an impressionable pedestrian, it’s like a horned messenger of the underworld ...

Gazelle is a big car. It would seem that nothing prevents using it as an object for artistic experiments of any scale. But not everything is so simple...

Enlarged rims, infernally shining disc brakes, a maxi-skirt body kit, a stencilled dragon on its side... Visually, the car sat down and sped away. But even on the smooth paths of the airfield, you can ride it only in summer, only in calm, dry weather.

A fur coat suits the car, you must agree! We bring to your attention a very feminine tuning of the Gazelle, and even with an emphasis on ever-fashionable leopard motifs. As they say in medically irresistible cases - "stylish, cute, gentle, touching." And certainly not cheap. And it’s also profitable if you follow this seal Gazelle and take bets from gambling passers-by on the rate of corrosion of metal covered with a fur coat.

A long car goes softer, it has plenty of space inside ... But! If you weld (even in the factory) two standard Gazelle bodies together, be prepared for cracks to appear soon in the most unexpected places. Yes, and in the expected ones too.

Any box-shaped structure is unstable to twisting, and all artisanal attempts to strengthen and secure the body by welding on scarves, ties, amplifiers and other weighting agents are ineffective. But it looks spectacular, no doubt!

Instead of a conclusion

Many aspects of tuning the Gazelle with their own hands remained unlit. In future materials, we will definitely touch on the conversion of the Gazelle into a full-fledged camper; we systematize the achievements of increasing the cross-country ability of cars; we will talk in detail about tuning heating and electrical equipment.

Gazelle tuning has great opportunities and wide prospects!