Talk to me about silva stylus / fisher fury etc..

[alan-87]

Afternoon ladies and gents.

I have recently decided that rather than my normal "quick" daily driver and all my eggs in one basket I want to mix it up a bit. I have decided that I will be getting a cheaper to run daily and then a kit car for the garage.

Having looked through the classifieds I really like the full bodied type cars. Unfortunately my budget isn't massive with only 4.5-5k to spend.

I understand that the quality of all the cars will depend on the builders skills, but what sort of thing should I be looking for? Also are there any active forums or groups for this style of car. Seems to be a fair amount of info on locostbuilders but no specific group.

Regards

Alan

[Westyman]

Hi Alan, they are great little cars, as are all cars designed by Jeremy Philips. Quality varies greatly as they require a lot more construction / fabrication by the builder than a typical "kit in a box" such as a Westfield or Dax.

Have a look at a few, I have a Stytlus and it's a much more practical car than my previous Westfield - roof, doors, decent boot etc.

Have a look at the Stylus owners website, see below,

http://www.clubstylus.be/forum/index.php?sid=dc7e4...

there is another club, called the Jeremy philips sports car register or owners club,or something, I dont have a link but Google is your friend as always.

[slomax]

Hi Alan,

Check out the JPSC (jeremy philips sportscar club). Jeremy philips is a prolific kit car designer and has had a lot of VERY succesful kits including the Fisher Fury, Sylva Jester, J15 etc etc.

http://www.jpsc.org.uk

Ones that i pesonally would be looking at are the fury/phenix and Mojo.

If you like it (many dont) there is also a midtec spyder on ebay at the moment.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MIDTEC-SPYDER-BLUE-/1406...

At around the 4-5k mark you will pick up a pretty basic car, if you are lucky you might find a zetec or 4age engined one in your price bracket, although i suspect most will be running pinto or x-flow. Not that there is anything wrong with them, but they are getting old now and the pinto is considered pretty heavy.

Good luck, you will need to go and try a few out too as to various set ups and interiors suit different people better eg if you're tall, broad, wider hips etc etc.

[alan-87]

Great stuff, Thanks for the quick replies gents.

I realise I'll be looking at a pretty basic one. To be honest I am looking forward to having a tinker, and making it my own. So basic isn't so bad.

I had seen the stylus.be club before, but not the jpsc club ao thanks.

In terms of engine setups, how easy is it to say swap out an old pinto for a zetec or duratec at some point. Is it usually a case of new mounts and away you go. Or are more predominant chassis changes needed.

[Westyman]

usually just change mounts,but, you could need to change the exhaust, radiator, cooling plumbing, induction system etc as well. Mine was built with a 1700 xflow then had a 2.0 Zetec transplanted after 200 miles.

[AdiT]

Chassis should be fine but you'd have to watch out for which side the exhaust is on. If they're on opposite sides you'd have to alter the side-pod to take the exhaust. X-fow to Zetec is the same side but Pinto > Zetec is opposite.

[anonymous-user]

You also need to think about mods to the tranmission tunnel with engine changes, my car was built by JP with a widder tranmission tunnel to take a ZF box, but when I put the SR20 in I need to mod it to get the engine back where I wanted it, I can imagine that a chassie built arround a cross flow gear box would require a big jap engine to be a long way forward.
They are great cars cant see me ever selling my Phoenix.