takumi
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 posted on 3/10/07 at 09:13 AM |
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Locost chassis by ACE Sports car
ACE Sports Cars Locost chassis..?
Anyone bought one of these chassis' .?
They look very nice, and I've already got ACE wishbones on my swiss cheese chassis so they should go straight on..
It comes with an integral floor it looks aswell..
Big question is it worth the £595
RobinHood 2B 2.0i pinto, Keihin 38mm Carbs, lightened flywheel, O'Mori remote filter kit, 10 row oil cooler. Modified head, 10.2cr, special
valves FR22 cam, 4- 1 header.
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Omni
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| posted on 3/10/07 at 09:20 AM |
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DAMN!!! That looks SWEET!!! Is it based on the book dimensions?
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takumi
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| posted on 3/10/07 at 09:22 AM |
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I think so,
not confirmed yet.
RobinHood 2B 2.0i pinto, Keihin 38mm Carbs, lightened flywheel, O'Mori remote filter kit, 10 row oil cooler. Modified head, 10.2cr, special
valves FR22 cam, 4- 1 header.
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Omni
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| posted on 3/10/07 at 09:29 AM |
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From reading the site it does appear to be based on the book. They look like they offer a very good package for the money!
http://acesportscars.com/
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JAG
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| posted on 3/10/07 at 09:34 AM |
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I bought an ST chassis about 5 years ago and I paid £450. It was fully finished and powdercoated.
If this is the same state for £595 that sounds pretty good to me.
[Edited on 3/10/07 by JAG]
Justin
Who is this super hero? Sarge? ...No.
Rosemary, the telephone operator? ...No.
Penry, the mild-mannered janitor? ...Could be!
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takumi
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| posted on 3/10/07 at 10:31 AM |
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Yea, does seem very tempting. I've tried phoning the guys mobile all morning, but no answer.
I'm hoping to go and visit in the next month or so and see what they are like up close, as they are only 65miles away fro me. 
RobinHood 2B 2.0i pinto, Keihin 38mm Carbs, lightened flywheel, O'Mori remote filter kit, 10 row oil cooler. Modified head, 10.2cr, special
valves FR22 cam, 4- 1 header.
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JAG
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| posted on 3/10/07 at 10:38 AM |
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Not answering his mobile isn't a good sign.
May be indicative of the customer service levels you could expect 
Justin
Who is this super hero? Sarge? ...No.
Rosemary, the telephone operator? ...No.
Penry, the mild-mannered janitor? ...Could be!
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flange nut
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| posted on 3/10/07 at 12:28 PM |
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The chassis appears to be missing any steering rack mounts. Unless the holes in the horizontal plate at the front that run fore and aft allow the rack
mounts to be bolted in different positions.
Geoff
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scutter
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| posted on 3/10/07 at 01:08 PM |
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Geoff, they run a milled alloy mounts that are V expensive, about £225.
ATB Dan.
The less I worked, the more i liked it.
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takumi
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| posted on 3/10/07 at 01:20 PM |
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The guy phoned me back this morning, which was very nice. Ended up talking for about 10mins, and telling him about my swiss cheese chassis woes..
All the welding is certified, chassis are jigged, tacked to gether, and sent out to a specialist welding firm to be welded.
All the dimensions are book standard.
The basic 'Locost' chassis and the 'Locost750' chassis are dimensionally the same albeit for extra stiffness and
strengthening.
In all I think its a top chassis, and I'm looking forward to hopfully buying one soon.
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joneh
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| posted on 3/10/07 at 05:14 PM |
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A couple of people bought some bits off his ebay store and weren't at all happy with the welding. Worth seeing if the welding has improved.
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DarrenW
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| posted on 3/10/07 at 05:36 PM |
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Id be surprised if any manufacturers can make money selling a chassis for that amount if they costed everything in - so sounds cheap enough to me.
Especially if they pay someone else to weld it up. Can the chassis move if tacked up in a jig then removed to be sent out (unless they send it out in
the jig)?
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takumi
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| posted on 3/10/07 at 07:37 PM |
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Thats what he said, it goes somewhere to be welded by wizards. I would hope that it goes still jigged..!
I've got a set of rose jointed front wishbones from ACE which are very nice. I'm going to have to take them all apart to take them off the
current chassis, but hey ho.
RobinHood 2B 2.0i pinto, Keihin 38mm Carbs, lightened flywheel, O'Mori remote filter kit, 10 row oil cooler. Modified head, 10.2cr, special
valves FR22 cam, 4- 1 header.
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Richard Quinn
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| posted on 4/10/07 at 02:27 PM |
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"Ace has been running now for two years and currently its cars are winning the 750 kit car championship with the aid of its championship winning
driver Declan Mc Donnell at the wheel."
Well, that's quite some accolade!
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procomp
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| posted on 4/10/07 at 03:58 PM |
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Hi i was under the impression that Declan raced in the locost championship And won it this year. And i do not belive he has an ACE chassis either.
Quite a strange statment for them to make as i donot belive i have ever seen an ACE chassis in any 750 championship.
cheers Matt
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D Beddows
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| posted on 4/10/07 at 04:19 PM |
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To be fair if you read further into the web site it does change to saying they're involved in the Locost Championship rather than Kits.
Have to say the pricing on there is SERIOUSLY odd - the chassis seems too cheap at £600 but then they're trying to sell aluminium body panel
sets for £458! which is somewhat over the odds.... And then those rack mounts for HOW MUCH!!?
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soggy 3
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| posted on 4/10/07 at 08:33 PM |
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GGGG
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soggy 3
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| posted on 4/10/07 at 08:33 PM |
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GGGG
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procomp
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| posted on 5/10/07 at 07:10 AM |
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Hi having emailed Declan i can confirm that he is NOT running an ACE chassis.
Cheers matt
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britishtrident
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| posted on 5/10/07 at 07:33 AM |
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It lacks a very important stiffening diagonal in the engine bay ---- Lotus left it out on the Seven S2 and had to put it back in.
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t.j.
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| posted on 5/10/07 at 01:13 PM |
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If it is as straight and neat as it looks I think it is cheap.
To make one yourself is probably as expensive as buying.
SO measure it and ask some around for the bracket placement.
Good luck.
Please feel free to correct my bad English, i'm still learning. Your Dutch is awfull! :-)
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bpgoa
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| posted on 9/10/07 at 09:51 PM |
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I've seen that chassis in the flesh (he's about a mile from where I live)
and it's not a bad job..
based on this , I ordered some other bits..
the customer service was shocking...
a set of body panels i ordered were a mess, scratched, chipped and generally in need of a significant amount of finishing work... they also took
about ten weeks to turn up.... I told him to keep them...
i had already paid for the bits, so decided to have a tank off him/them... rather than have to try and get my cash back.. it took nearly 5 months to
turn up.. and in the end i resorted to phoning him every other day for nearly 6 weeks (What else can i say)
they have recently moved out of their unit in Hertford - to where i have no clue and neither do the people who are based around them
my advice is to go elsewhere... try MK, Stuart taylor or MNR .. (nothing to do with me as I built my own chassis - but next time it'll be a MNR
- a bit more cash but a load more quality - go to the shows and look)
i may be one in a thousand customers but i think not...
On and On the River flows... We the Undertow
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akumabito
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| posted on 12/10/07 at 11:06 PM |
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It looks nice though. But I have to aree the pricing is odd to say the least (the prices for panles in particular! Maybe I should e-mail them to
confirm it is really aluminium and not silver we're dealing with? 
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bpgoa
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| posted on 12/10/07 at 11:24 PM |
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good luck...
On and On the River flows... We the Undertow
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procomp
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| posted on 13/10/07 at 09:11 AM |
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Hi and if you do get to talk to them please ask them why so much of thier web page is dedicated to Declan running there chassis.
Whitch is complete B#ll###s. As after checking no one in the 750 is running one of thier chassis.
cheers Matt
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