Do you want to make your domestic car even better? Make a bumper for a UAZ with your own hands! Any UAZ model can be tuned with a power bumper of a unique or classic configuration. Such a detail will not only add charm to the car and emphasize its level of cross-country ability, but will also protect people and animals inside from injury during a possible collision.
Front bumper on UAZ bread © Maryan Popovich [Mariano]
First of all, we must give credit to the Engineer, as my son would say, “Respect and Respect,” because his drawings were taken as a basis. So, in order. Having downloaded the drawings of the front bumper, I made a model of the bumper (without arches) from galvanized steel and installed it on the UAZ.
Since this bumper was not designed for this car, it was necessary to make 4 cuts and, with the front of the bumper away from the car, bend the bumper wings to a manageable size (the front of the loaf was still a little rounder than the bobby), then secure with self-tapping screws
Then came pure “aesthetics”, I didn’t really like the bumper fangs
and I went “to the other side,” as Vladimir Ilyich said, that is, I changed the design a little
After all these manipulations, the bumper became metal (3 mm thick). With bows it was more difficult, but solvable. The dimensions are taken from a photograph of a RIF bumper for a UAZ-31 installed by someone using alcohol, which was also downloaded from the Internet. Using the distortion coefficient, you can determine the size of interest with “acceptable” accuracy for the bumper.
Example: knowing (measuring) the effective diameter, for example, of a UAZ headlight, say 180 mm, and the size of the same headlight in the picture, say 9 mm, we have 180/9 = 20, this is the distortion coefficient. We measure the thickness of the tube on the kenguryatnik in the same photo, us 3mm 3x20 = 60mm, that is, the actual size of the tube in the photo is approximately 60mm. The larger the photo, the more accurate the size calculation will be, for example, I took the numbers “from a bulldozer.” It seems to be clearly stated.
