Sylva Leader owner in Fareham
Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 7:09 pm
Hello Folks,
Figured I'd best get the awkward first post out the way. Have been the Proud owner of a Leader for the past 4 or so years, 2.5 of which I used it to provide me with big grins on the weekend but the past 18 months it has fallen foul of the "time to make it my own" rebuild idea!
The original plan was to just get they body done, she is an ex racer and had a lot of battle scars, but once that was off I felt the need to fit a fandangaly pedal box with bias bar.......what was I thinking! Then the spaghetti of a wiring loom reared it's ugly head which was attached to a very flakey rev limiter, chafed wiring every where, the list goes on........
However, to the here and now, the pedal box is fitted and as of this weekend we have ( very good ) brakes, god knows how the bias is but we will soon find out!
clutch is all working as the throttle. 
Have acquired a box of tricks from CBS to set me on the right path with the loom and an accuspark electronic dizzy too.
Geeky stuff:
sylva Leader
1700 xflow ( the spec of this is a little grey as , having been raced ,various mods have been done but little history available to confirm anything, however I did have her on rolling road not long after purchase and it was delivering 115bhp)
4 speed rocket box
Spax adjustables all round
That's about it, I'll post some pics and tales of woe about the rebuild soon
Matt
Figured I'd best get the awkward first post out the way. Have been the Proud owner of a Leader for the past 4 or so years, 2.5 of which I used it to provide me with big grins on the weekend but the past 18 months it has fallen foul of the "time to make it my own" rebuild idea!
The original plan was to just get they body done, she is an ex racer and had a lot of battle scars, but once that was off I felt the need to fit a fandangaly pedal box with bias bar.......what was I thinking! Then the spaghetti of a wiring loom reared it's ugly head which was attached to a very flakey rev limiter, chafed wiring every where, the list goes on........
However, to the here and now, the pedal box is fitted and as of this weekend we have ( very good ) brakes, god knows how the bias is but we will soon find out!
clutch is all working as the throttle. Have acquired a box of tricks from CBS to set me on the right path with the loom and an accuspark electronic dizzy too.
Geeky stuff:
sylva Leader
1700 xflow ( the spec of this is a little grey as , having been raced ,various mods have been done but little history available to confirm anything, however I did have her on rolling road not long after purchase and it was delivering 115bhp)
4 speed rocket box
Spax adjustables all round
That's about it, I'll post some pics and tales of woe about the rebuild soon
Matt