Watch out for Nick Acton!!

[ScratchBuilder]

Berni,

With all due respect, you are jumping to conclusions that there wasn't face time. Here's your's truly sitting in CSX3035 in Nick's shop while looking at the build progress on my chassis.
I asked about things that I thought odd like the dash spacers and Nick told me that's how 4000 series cars are.
When I was there and saw that his upper control arms didn't fit, I had to leave shortly after to catch a plane.
Later I got a bill and a picture showing the front suspension together and was told the fitment issue was due to welding distortion of the control arm.
Hardly the case, a custom wide arm had been made and the mounting tabs were bent to fit it. There's so much bind that if you can move the control arm the bolts turn.

I trusted him this is my first cobra and I've never seen a 4000 series car only original 3000s, if I didn't why would i pay him to build my car??



SB

PS I'm even wearing an Acton Custom t shirt

[Bernica]

Back to my "prototype" analogy. You could line up 100 Cobras and I don't believe one would be the same, 3000's or 4000's. Although they did somewhat try to make 4000's more standardized, I know they are not all the same. Trust me on dat. I have one.

[ScratchBuilder]

Berni,

You may not believe it, but my new control arms will fit a Kirkham, a CSX4000, a CSX3000, but not the Acton frame. Every Cobra is different, I get it they are hand made, but the key pieces like suspension pick-up points and control arms were and are built with fixtures and so far from several cars including the originals they are pretty darn close. I'm sure there are exceptions, but I didn't get to pick the cars I looked at and the new control arms will also work with the CR prints.
And Again Nick committed to and I paid for an authentic replica of a Cobra 3000 series frame and suspension, not an Acton saturday night special. . .

SB

[redmt]

I don't want to just jump on the band wagon or kick Nick when he's down but I have had a terrible experience with him. I also am not trying to hi-jack the thread but more to fortify SB's claim that Nick's work is sub standard and inaccurate. I also have pix of shoddy parts that don't even come close to fitting and horrible welds. I also have hundreds if not possibly thousands of dollars in parts that were NEVER SHIPPED. When receiving parts from him, the shipping was highly inflated. Not only were the shipping charges out of line, when I had to ship that very same part back to him, I had to pay the shipping again. Then he'd send another crap misfit part, I had to pay the shipping yet again. I had also ordered a set of gauges from him. They were not as described by him. When I called him on it his reply to that was that they came from Summit and I should deal with them. I have a set of his air duct flapper valves. The flappers are made of hack cut inner tubes. The welds if you want to call them that look more like he tried to beat the rod on. As I said before, he was great to work with when he was drop shipping parts from other vendors. When he started with the "Acton Custom" parts, the fiasco began.