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Old 11-27-11, 02:22 PM
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Hello guys the name is Sean from Ireland just signed up today am building a Veilside fortune kit in January will post a build thread up in the new year. Am currently working on this baby

Lamborghini Murcielago kit car built on a Toyota MR2
Old 11-28-11, 05:48 PM
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Hi Sean! Welcome to RX7CLUB.
I would have never guessed thats a MR 2! Good work.
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Cheers Robert love the site and RX7 am purchasing one next March and then im ordering the Veilside Fortune kit will post a build diary up as soon as i start

Yip that Lamborghini Murcielago its taken about a year to get it to where it is today i custom built the dash its in carbon fiber
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I'm jealous...I was actually looking into doing this cause I had access to a mr2 chassis as well. Welcome to the forum! I'm new myself. What co. did you go with to buy the kit if you don't mind me asking?
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Cheers guys it one of the hardest kit in the kit car industry to build and they are right i have put blood (literly) sweat (alot of) Tears (some areas i nearlt gave up).

The whole car is nearly custom made as i have made changes to the kit the crowd that makes the kit is http://www.extreme-sportscars.com/murci/index.html i didnt buy my kit off these guys i purchased it from a guy here in Ireland that didnt know what he was doing but be very careful with this crowd as they usually dont provide all the parts and you will be left with out them.

This is the car when i bought it the previous owner tried to make the frame himself

Everything removed

This was taken 6 months ago beside my 7 series

Here is the custom dash i made

Here it is in carbon fiber
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if that 1st pic is the end result its a mental transformation!
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Yip the Lambo replica has come along way about a full years work at it now
Am wondering if you guys can help me i am going to purchase a Veilside Fortune kit is it a hard build ??



Here is the exhausts back on


My friends engine arrived from America the weekend its for his Corvette its pure sex on a pallet

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so glad i ended up here. this thing is sweet, good work
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WOW! Amazing body work on that car. And who doesn't love a shiny Chevy engine.
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And who doesn't love a shiny Chevy engine.
About 95% of the forum!

Amazing work! Looking forward to your build thread!
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Pulled the car out today for a clean of the workshop



Rear spoiler primed



Chrome bits for my friends corvette engine


Rear booth coming along
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Hey Sean,

Replied to your pm, will mail you this w/end.

Not going to lie, the fortune kit is a bloody headache, but from the looks of things compared to what you're doing now I think you'll handle it fine. Just a lot of fitting and refitting and regardless of what vs says, the parts don't all line up so there's some work there too but if you can do that lambo, you won't struggle with a vs.
Old 12-09-11, 02:28 PM
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@ Silhouette - Cheers for the PM looking forward to your e-mail and great to have a reply from somebody thats actually built a VS Fortune kit.

Here is the RX7 that i just bought




Rubber matting cut out for the boot

Back put in

Passenger side put in

Tricky part put in


All cleaned out and finished

Rear boot nealt finished

Rear spoiler re-primered
Old 12-15-11, 01:12 PM
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Didnt get much done due to me visiting the surgeon about my knee i damaged last year more operations on the way downer
A few pin holes fixed



All sanded now

Re-primered

Putting the rear wing on


Engine cover off a bit of sanding on this then primer

Being bolted on


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A few brackets to be made up for the rear boot

Here it goes

Spoiler and boot all together

The centre section of the spoiler is bolted down through the boot an through 25mm box section of the rear boot


Second bracket on

Engine cover nearly all flat sanded coming along

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very cool project... i've never seen a Murcielago kit done before, keep posting pictures and would love to see this thing finished!

(i used to own a sw20 myself)

only criticism is that some of your pictures are kinda huge and take forever to load :P but good stuff!
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[QUOTE=peggyontherun;10893955]@ Silhouette - Cheers for the PM looking forward to your e-mail and great to have a reply from somebody thats actually built a VS Fortune kit.

Hey man, here's my lame tut on the lights. https://www.rx7club.com/showthread.p...1#post10904101 hope it helps. Your lambo is looking great I want to try and built the Reveton next year, seeing how much of a mission shippin gout the kit is.
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Old 12-20-11, 02:25 PM
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Time to strip all the paint off the fuel filler section due to the last bodyshop messing up the pieces

Engine cover all block sanded its getting close to finish on this

Paint all off took ages to get it off

Will have it primed tomorrow hopefully if all goes well
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HOLY CRAP! Looking at that MR2 a fortune kit should be a breeze for you buddy! That's making me feel tired just looking at it I can't even begin to imagine the work that's gone into it!
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Side panel on the passenger side me stripping the paint off

Little bit of fixing as i am here on my own and lifting this engine cover on my own is hard

Paint stripped off

Bit of filler used

Ok collected these today my headlights in carbon fiber

Close up

Wing mirrors

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What the wing mirror will look like on the car


Covered up for the Christmas

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Got to the engine cover today good bit of sanding left on them

Sanding all done

All primered and left to dry
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Wow, serious amount of work gone into that, it's looking great


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