The Soviet automotive industry has always aroused interest among lovers. The values ​​\u200b\u200bof indicators of such a concept as the dimensions of the VAZ 2106. Weight and dimensional characteristics vehicle. Addiction running characteristics from the overall dimensions and weight of the car. iron horses. The then auto industry gave the world many samples of trucks and cars, which have long become legendary. ZAZ, ZIL, KrAZ, Pobeda, GAZ - these names have become a model of the automotive industry of a recently bygone era.

However, first of all Soviet car industry even now is identified with the brainchild of the Volzhsky car factory, a VAZ 2106 car. Despite how long this car has already existed, and even taking into account the current innovations in the automotive industry, attention to the VAZ 2106 car is not decreasing. Let's start our acquaintance with the legend with such concepts as weight and dimensions.

Vehicle weights

The actual weight of the car is 1045 kilograms. The main units of the "six" have the following weight:

• 140 kilograms - engine with equipment (starter, generator, carburetor, etc.);
• 26 kilograms - gearbox;
• 10 kilograms - square shaft;
• 52 kilograms - rear gear;
• 7 kilograms - radiator grille;
• 280 kilograms - car body.

It is noticeable that the body is the heaviest structural unit of the machine. It weighs like two motors with all the components. The rest of the mass of 530 kilograms is scattered between the parts interior decoration, wheels, fuel lines, highways brake system and others, the discrepancy in the mass of which does not reach such large values.

An interesting fact is that according to all the norms and standards of the Soviet economy, the “six”, having an actual weight of 1045 kilograms, fell into the category of small class vehicles, but at the same time, due to the engine size, the VAZ 2106 was a full member of group number three.

Body dimensions and verification of compliance with the specified parameters

There are engineering definitions of such concepts as the body and geometric dimensions of a car. These include benchmarks between key points, as well as the shape and spatial arrangement of window and door openings. Now let's look at the issue of checking for compliance with the parameters.

Cars that have been involved in an accident (traffic accidents) are being checked. During the procedure, body parts and machine elements are checked for symmetry, alignment and parallelism to each other. WITH special attention the following elements are examined: car diagonals, pillars, roof (diagnosed by the mutual arrangement of parallel doorways), symmetry, parallelism and correspondence of the front and rear windows of the vehicle.

The nominal dimensions between body parts are as follows.

1. The distance between the front pillars is 889 mm, between the rear - 819 mm with a tolerance of 2 mm.
2. Diagonal dimensions between the front doors - 1273 mm, between the rear - 983 mm. Tolerance 2 mm.
3. Window openings should reach 1375 mm - frontal and 1322 mm - rear view, respectively. Tolerance 4 mm.
4. The diagonal dimensions of the hood are 1594 mm with a tolerance of 3 mm.
5. The diagonal of the trunk lid must correspond to 1446 millimeters. The boundary discrepancy must be within 4 mm.

The car body has the following dimensions(mm).

Vehicle type - sedan. The car has four doors and five passenger seats. On the basis of this apparatus, design modifications were also made. At the same time, the dimensions of the body, the materials of attachments and finishing components, bumpers, sidelights changed dramatically.

For export, cars such as "pickup" and "tourist" were designed and assembled. A tent was built into the back of the pickup truck.

Dependence of running characteristics on dimensions and weight

The classic method of improving the traction and dynamic characteristics of a vehicle is a well-distributed mass of both the vehicle itself and the luggage carried by it. High-speed tests have shown that rear-wheel drive cars (which is the VAZ 2106) during acceleration shift part of the weight from the center of the car and the front axle to the rear. The latter leads to a greater load on the rear side of the undercarriage, which is an auxiliary effect when driving. This is due to an increase in the contact patch and an increase in the coefficient of adhesion of the tire to the road surface.

The standard dimensions and weight of the vehicle allow you to carry up to 150 kilograms of luggage or any other cargo. Weight up to 400 kilograms does not affect the dynamic performance of the car. Achieving a maximum speed of 152 km / h is possible when fully loaded with luggage, driver and passengers. With the previous parameters, reaching a speed mark of 100 km / h is achieved in 17.2 seconds. Under the conditions of having luggage weighing up to 150 kilograms, the amount of gasoline consumed per 100 kilometers at a speed of 90 km / h is ten liters and one hundred grams.

But no matter how much you reduce the weight of the vehicle, you will not be able to increase the power. Reducing the weight of the VAZ 2106 car and modernizing its body components will help increase dynamic characteristics. This can be achieved without changing the body structure, power or traction units, in the following ways.

1. Do not drive with full tank fuel, do not add fluid to the windshield washer reservoir. Full weight fuel tank equals more than eighty kilograms, and the windshield washer tank weighs up to ten kilograms.
2. Forged wheel disks lead to the loss of 10-20 extra pounds.
3. Suspension modernization, replacement of steel levers with aluminum ones, the overall dimensions of which are suitable, will reduce the weight by a couple of kilograms.
4. How much does it cost to replace a muffler? About 25-30 kilograms.
5. Modernization of non-load-bearing streamlined parts of the car body will help to achieve an improvement in the aerodynamic properties of the car, provided that the dimensions of the car remain unchanged.

The above ways to lighten the car are not the only or unique ones. How many exist? Yes, many. However, the fact that the VAZ 2106 car weighs less affects not so much speed performance as braking performance, handling, and so on.

It is worth remembering that serious unskilled, without appropriate equipment, intervention in the design of the car leads not so much to an improvement in the car, but to a deterioration in the quality indicators of the vehicle, a decrease in the working time of the car, as well as a threat to the health, life of the driver, passengers and other road users .

VAZ-2106 Zhiguli/Lada 1600/Lada 1500L/Lada 1300SL - four-door five-seater a car with a body like "sedan" and back driving wheels. One of the most popular models of the Volga Automobile Plant.

When in 1976 the plant in Tolyatti mastered the production of the VAZ-2106 model, which was redesigned for domestic operating conditions from the RAT 124 Speciale of the 1972 model, no one could have imagined that it would become the most popular and mass production of the Volga Automobile Plant.

The "Six" differs from the VAZ-2103 in a more powerful 80-horsepower VAZ-2106 engine with a displacement of 1.6 liters, a different electrical circuit and a modified design of the body and interior. So, the front dual headlights received plastic "glasses", the radiator lining was changed, there are other bumpers with plastic "fangs" and "corners", rear lights combined with license plate lighting, plastic "gaskets" between the grille and headlights. Compared to Moskvich cars, these 5-seater sedans, which differed better dynamics and a really comfortable interior, were the height of comfort and prestige for a wide range of motorists in the USSR. In the late 1970s, the VAZ-2106 immediately gained fame as a "chic" and high-speed car, but expensive and less "practical" than other Zhiguli. Decent dynamics for that time (maximum 150 km / h and 16 s to 100 km / h), embossed seats with headrests, a dashboard with a tachometer and excellent sound insulation - there was something to appreciate.

In 1979, the plant launched the production of less powerful modifications of the VAZ-21061 with a 1.5-liter 71-horsepower VAZ-2103 engine and the VAZ-21063 with a 1.3-liter 64-horsepower VAZ-21011 engine. They were not popular among the people, but the scale of their production increased (especially 21063), and in the conditions of the Soviet shortage, the consumer had to put up with a combination of an expensive and weighted body with weak engine, significantly worsening the dynamics. Since 1980, they began to mount Ozone type 2107 carburetors. Changes in electrics due to changing technology occurred constantly. In 1977, machines began to be equipped with new terminals and wiring connections, and from 1986 a new relay was installed.

In 1982, the first modernization of the car was carried out. On the VAZ-2106, they began to mount modernized 75-horsepower (according to the new GOST) VAZ-2106 engines. Reflectors were no longer installed on the rear wing along the molding line. In 1988, the exhaust system was upgraded: a disposable gasket and nut were installed in it.

In 1990, VAZ mastered a kind of Lux package - VAZ-21065 with a standard VAZ-2106 engine with contactless system ignition, Solex carburetor (21053-1107010-03), halogen headlights, improved upholstery and other seat headrests. This modification was produced with a 1500 engine, "five" bumpers, electric heating rear window, a more powerful generator, a five-speed gearbox. Export modifications of the VAZ-21064 outwardly differed from the VAZ-21065 in bumpers with built-in turn signals and a slightly different electric circuit. Since 1985, at first export modifications, then sometimes they began to install a 5-speed gearbox of the VAZ-2112 type, and later of the VAZ-21074 type, on the "internal" ones, which significantly reduces fuel consumption on the highway and noise from the engine.

By the end of the 1980s, this model with modifications remained the most massive and popular in the VAZ program. Of course, it was no longer considered prestigious, but the good memory of the first Zhiguli family supported a steady demand for the Six. It was not affected even by the dominance of the low-power modification of the VAZ-21063 and the sharp deterioration in the quality of assembly and components in the 1990s. The car eventually became so affordable that it moved into the category of unpretentious "workhorses". He also has a permanent army of admirers. However, now the VAZ-2106 is still gradually losing ground, primarily due to the obsolescence of the design and interior, as well as the rather low driving qualities that are organically inherent in the classic layout. Nevertheless, the "six" has every chance to celebrate its quarter-century anniversary on the assembly line.

Thin doors without impact bars no longer fully meet modern safety requirements, and the high noise level in the cabin of the latest models does not indicate poor insulation, but engine and transmission defects, which are now by no means uncommon, as is the destruction of the beam front axle. Such was the quality of components at the VAZ ... In addition, with the loss of prestige of the model, moldings were no longer installed on modifications with the cheapest equipment, and in general they reduced chrome in the finish to a minimum, which nevertheless did not make the car more modern (especially since fashion returned to chrome in car decor). TO significant shortcoming such configurations can be attributed to the absence of electric heating of the rear window.

The most unfortunate detail of interior design can be called thin and slippery wheel. However, the model 21065 comes across another, more modern, smaller size. A family heirloom - four headlights in rectangular double "glasses" - have already gone out of fashion so much that, one might say, they again give the model a certain "charm". In general, despite moral old age, the VAZ-2106 can be considered the optimal "first car" in life.

VAZ-2106 "Zhiguli" is a rear-wheel drive passenger car with a sedan-type body. It is the ideological successor of the so-called classical layout VAZ cars With rear wheel drive. This model was the final model of the "classics" of the first family, the successor to the VAZ-2103.

"Six" was produced at the Volga Automobile Plant since 1976. Until 1977, the VAZ-2106 and VAZ-2103 models were produced simultaneously, and later new model supplanted the old "troika".

V total the production period of the VAZ-2106 model lasted about 30 years, during which time several million cars were produced. An interesting fact is that on December 25, 2001, the production of the "six" at AvtoVAZ was stopped, but the car continued to leave the assembly line of the IZH-auto plant until January 2006.

The development of the VAZ-2106 was carried out by specialists from the Style Center of the Volga Automobile Plant in 1974, under the name "Project 21031".

The reduction of expensive materials such as chrome parts, upgrades to the lighting-electrical equipment, changes to the exterior and interior of the car were the main requirements in updating the VAZ-2103 model. The front cladding has undergone changes, the appearance of the rear lights has changed, the front and rear bumper s, wheel covers, side direction indicators, ventilation grilles, factory sign.

Naturally, innovations could not bypass the interior of the car, in terms of innovation and materials used. The front seats received adjustable headrests, the upholstery was designed in the style of black plastic in the spirit of its time. As for the governing bodies, they were supplemented alarm, a windshield washer stalk switch appeared, a rheostat was installed in the instrument panel for lighting, and the car was also equipped with an additional low brake fluid level indicator.

The new equipment was supplied with a radio receiver, heated rear window. And on export right-hand drive copies there was a red fog lamp that was attached under the rear bumper on the left and right sides.

Specifications VAZ 2106

Engine
Length, mm
Width, mm
Height, mm
Wheelbase, mm
Front track, mm
Rear track, mm
Clearance, mm
Trunk volume maximum, l
Body type / number of doors
Engine location	front, lengthwise
Engine volume, cm3
Cylinder type
Number of cylinders
Piston stroke, mm
Cylinder diameter, mm
Compression ratio
Number of valves per cylinder
Supply system	Carburetor
Power, hp / rev. min.
Torque
Fuel type
Type of gearbox / number of gears
gear ratio main couple
Front suspension type	double wishbone
A type rear suspension	helical spring
steering type	Worm gear
Fuel tank volume, l
Max Speed, km/h
Curb weight of the car, kg
Permissible full mass, kg
Acceleration time (0-100 km/h), s
Fuel consumption in the urban cycle, l / 100 km