| An
Ambi Story
by Niaz Ali from Downunder |
So, your grand dad just passed away, and your dad walks up
to you all teary eyed, and says "Ramu, here are the keys
to grandads Amby, its your's now", so what do you say
to your dad, well dont say it because we cant print it or
put it on the web, the webmaster will pass out.
Ok so your about to commit suicide
because Bholanath down the road just got a new Zen , and he
is going to drag you out of the traffic lights every time,
and the Chicks dont go for the slow cars any more (never did).
If your any thing like me when I was
your age, you will immediatly start thinking of how to get
this Family Chariot to get up and boogie and even be the fastest
bucket of bolts, that the gang has seen, I can see all you
esteem owners smirking, but just wait till Ramu gets his wepon
of terror on the streets.
Ramu its time you met me the master
blaster, of Ambis, the Ambi guru, and Mr Ambassador. Let me
assume you dont have a lot of money, so all these mods will
be relatively cheap, none of that fancy dollars and Lakhs
stuff.
Before you start, remember that the
ambi is the biggest pig that ever roamed the planet , its
slow dosent handle and guzzels petrol, well the third item
we wont worry about , because you cant have grunt and economy
both in the same engine.
Lets start at the very beginning , its a very good place
to start.
 There
is a book written by David Vizard, on how to build a mini
engine, its an old book but it has all the masala you need
to start working, if your really serious this book is worth
its weight in gold, (it was a long time ago but i think this
book is called "Boosting the .b."), Take the head off,  this
is done easily enough, and clean up the ports, with a grinding
stone on the end of a flexible shaft, you will be surprised
as to how grotty the head is, Im not going to suggest you
get bigger valves because as i said we are trying to cut costs
and all we want to do is kick bholanaths butt and win the
chicks, ok, you can then take the head to the lathe shop and
ask him to lop off a coupela thow, off this will raise the
compression, now take off the rocker shaft and ask saggu Mistri
the lathe operator to put a thick bush inside, once he has
done this then re drill the rocker arms off center, what this
does is allows you more lift in the valves altough you havnt
changed the camshaft,, the inletand exhaust ports both have
to be wider, ,  how
wide, ..well the carby we are going to use is taken from a
Nissan power wagon, the type the army uses, look in the choor
baazar, and you will pick them up cheap, you need two, the
ports will have to match these carbys. the manifold and linkage
you have to make, how long ..?? well this is not the time
for me to get really technical, so Ramu if your really serious
i can answer all the questions,  at
the moment im just giving you ideas. Lets now attack the Block,
bore it out to 60 over size and go back to the choor bazar
and buy an old set of "Landmaster" Pistons, they are flat
tops, Ramu a Landmaster is the grandfather of the Ambi now
just go and get them. ok so now we lighten and balance the
crank shaft, remember to do it with the clutch assembly ,flywheel
and the crank pulley all attached, great now we are getting
some where, you will now need the three branch exhaust system,
i hope they are still avaliable, other wise you can make it,
again lengths are important. Ok its now time to check out
the chicks at the local college, how about Malini or whats
her name??, you better get you intro lines ready shes going
to love this love machine.
 If
you have got this right, your ambi should be really mooving
by now, did i forget to tell you that you will need 100oct
fuel, how do you get it , you got to know someone whos uncleji
knows someone who works at the airport , that where its avaliable,
dont worry about the costs, its too late Malini is more important
now.
Now that your ambi is The master blaster,
you need to stop it and get it round corners, I useto put
the bigger drums from the trekker, but im sure the Contessas
discs will fit, get an old fiat (padmini) and pull off the
front and rear stabiliser bar and with a littel ingunity you
can fit these, hey how does she feel now, to cap this off
put on some gypsy rims and the old JK steel belted radials,
they were very good for traction , im not sure if they still
make them.
Now
you can blow away bholanath , youve got Malani, as you put
your arm around her for that first kiss.................Remember
the Guru
HASTALLAVISTABABYILLBEBAAK
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