RX7 Fortune BodyKit

[XMN]

I didnt fit it mate, I used a garage to do the job for me. I guess your doing this one yourself?

if you want to email me its cervenec@hotmail.co.uk

XMN - can i have your number plz? as i have many question about fitting this!

[colly]

Tbh I think you would have to be insane to spend a couple of grand on a copied kit, it will never be the same quality and if you had enough money to buy the copy, fit and paint it and spend around 5k on the wheels then your probably not the kind of person who would try save a few quid buying an inferior copy

[pigme1000000]

its not just getting the proper kit thos is it !! getting it fitted right is the most important thing. Id be proper ****ed off it i had got the kit,then had it fitted only to find it was done ****....

[XMN]

which rims you getting?

just had my REAL fortune kit arrive friday from veilside USA. seeing the kit it wil be virtually impossible to copy it well. The finish on the original is amazing. its smooth as glass! the headlights are carbon as us the front splitter. many pieces are several layers laminayed together to get the shape - ie the rear tail gate is an absolute work of art. IF it was faked and IF the quality was the same it would end up costing in man hours what it costs from the states.
 
with the exchange rate think the kit cost me 4k tops anyway or something like that.
 
also someone made the point about the wheels... they are 3 by19 and 12 by 19s. these cost 000s! and tyres are 235 35 ZR19s. so again your looking at £500 per tyre approx.
i dont think its worth making a fake.

[bin liner]

HOK are good but very expensive...You need to be a very good painter to get the colours to go on without getting any shades in the paint(Kandys)..and if u get it wrong its gonna cost u big as most HOK colours work on ground colours that change the way the top coats look...screw up the top coat and you will have to reapply the ground as if you were starting from scratch....

The painting procedure basically treats the car as one big panel so u have to walk the side of the car edge to edge when painting...this differs from normal pearls and metallics where you can paint panel by panel...your overlaps are also different as well as having to be consistent in your application method....gun pressures and spray patterns have to be spot on unlike standard pearls and mets where there is a greater margin of error...My advice on Painting HOK is go to someone who has done them before and uses them all the time.....i am building a burnout widebody not a Veilside so is a fair bit easier...

[XMN]

ran into the matching problem already. which has put a spanner in the works at the mo

what colour you doing yours, I went for the std sunset/back option

HOK are good but very expensive...You need to be a very good painter to get the colours to go on without getting any shades in the paint(Kandys)..and if u get it wrong its gonna cost u big as most HOK colours work on ground colours that change the way the top coats look...screw up the top coat and you will have to reapply the ground as if you were starting from scratch....

The painting procedure basically treats the car as one big panel so u have to walk the side of the car edge to edge when painting...this differs from normal pearls and metallics where you can paint panel by panel...your overlaps are also different as well as having to be consistent in your application method....gun pressures and spray patterns have to be spot on unlike standard pearls and mets where there is a greater margin of error...My advice on Painting HOK is go to someone who has done them before and uses them all the time.....i am building a burnout widebody not a Veilside so is a fair bit easier...

[bin liner]

i am doing mine a ducati bike colour...it is a pearl orange..a bit easier to paint than the HOK paints...i chose it over 4 years ago when i painted the egine bay...however as i have fitted the engine and all the other bits i will continue and finish it in that colour.....however if i was to do another car it would probably be a pearl white maybe off the rx8 or possibly the new lambo...if your having problem matching its probably because your trying to blow in.....you may have to do the panel edge to edge...but you need to know how the colour was originally painted...what ground colour, how many coats were applied etc...you will have to paint a few test cards and use the best one as a guide...cheers

[jamie_supra]

mine is going to be piano key black on the recessed parts and pearl white on the other pannels. i have got i forge deep dish chromes  9 by 19s on the front and 12 by 19s on the rear. tyres were a problem. had to stretch 195/35zr19s over the backs!

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[bin liner]

mine is going to be piano key black on the recessed parts and pearl white on the other pannels. i have got i forge deep dish chromes  9 by 19s on the front and 12 by 19s on the rear. tyres were a problem. had to stretch 195/35zr19s over the backs!

u are joking right....can u even buy 195 35 19 tyres..and how the hell can u stretch these overs 12s...no one in this country could do that....and why would u need to stretch that much...didn\'t the guy from iforged build a veilside fortune nsx and rx7?  Nice colour combo u have chosen though..

[jag60dog]

195/35/19 how the hell did they manage that over 12" my mate struggled to get 215/35 over 8" you got any pics mate this i gotta see!!! If your running such a thin tyre width whats your grip like as your only using 195 width which is mainly used on 6-7" width wheel?!

Jay

[Lum]

surely thats a typing error?? he must mean 295/35/19!

[pigme1000000]

jamies words and pics on the site me and him go on!!
 
next i ordered the wheels. they are hand made I forge split rims. they had to be shipped in from the states.
they are 12" by 19".
tyres are off a lamborghini marcialago and had to be stretched over

[batman]

lol yes 295 in the picture but even that they look like theyll explode on a bump bloody hell

[pigme1000000]

ive only just noticed that the tyres are nowere near the edge of the rims! sorry jamie but they do look strange