But what if one of those 20 customers that’s willing to pay up to $187,000 for the full carbon fiber version, would opt to install it on his Lamborghini Aventador Roadster? Would that even be possible?

I guess the only problem would be the engine cover with the vertical fin, apart from that the entire EVO GT kit will most likely be able to fit the Roadster version of the current V12 model too. It looks like the vertical fin isn’t attached to the massive rear wing, so that shouldn’t be an issue just to keep the bespoke Roadster engine cover.

My guess the only problem could be at the front, installing the new front hood might cause issues with the space to store the two roof panels from the Roadster, even on their previous ‘Limited’ kit with the large vents on that front hood, there was a problem on a Roadster.

But other than that, it seems perfectly feasible to create an LB Silhouette WORKS Aventador GT EVO Roadster …

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A year later, at the 2014 SEMA show in the United States of America we finally was an LB-Works Aventador in the style we would expect from Kato-san … lowered to the max, extremely wide fenders with that typical LB-Works ‘rivet’ look, and a giant rear wing … the LB-Works Aventador was unveiled.

It would take Kato-san four more years to come up with something even wilder than the LB-Works Aventador, at the 2018 Geneva Motor Show they unveiled the LB-Works Lamborghini Aventador Limited Edition, with a modified design and additional intakes … but this time the $60,000 aero kit became limited. Only 20 would be available on the Japanese market, and 30 would be sold to the rest of the world … and according to YouTube member Stradman, these kits are all but sold out, as he managed to get hold of one of the final units for his Bianco Canopus Aventador Roadster Pirelli edition.

On January 19, 2021, Wataru Kato, the founder, and CEO of Liberty Walk, turned 54 … and for his birthday he unveiled the final edition of the LB Aventador. Only 20 of these kits will be made, and it’s called the LB Silhouette WORKS Aventador GT EVO, in line with his latest Huracan kit that’s called the LB-Silhouette WORKS Huracan GT.

I’ve taken a look at the Liberty Walk website, where the new LB Silhouette WORKS Aventador GT EVO is listed, and it’s available in either FRP, DRY Carbon Fiber, or a mix of both … from $94,600 up to $187,000 … and yes, that is without the Aventador donor vehicle, without a custom exhaust, without wheels, and without the necessary air-ride suspension, this isn’t a kit for the fainthearted I guess.

Taking a look at the parts list on the Liberty Walk it becomes obvious not much of the original Lamborghini Aventador is left after installing this kit, my guess is only the roof and the doors remain, everything else is replaced by LB Silhouette WORKS Aventador GT EVO parts.

It does look like Kato-san was inspired by the 2018 Lamborghini SC18 Alston if you take a closer look at the design of this new LB Silhouette WORKS Aventador GT EVO, the vertical fins on the side of the new front bumper look similar to the ones on the SC18, also the new front hood from Liberty Walk reminds me of the SC18 one. But the most striking resemblance is the design of the front fenders, with the lower section that is fixed to the doors and opens up … just as we’ve seen on the SC18.

Even the rear fenders and the aero design in front of the rear wheels seem to be inspired by Squadra Corse’s one-off model, and how about that imposing rear wing where the vertical struts also start on the rear fenders, but the real give-away has to be that vertical fin on this GT EVO kit … that was also seen on the SC18.

But all that isn’t necessarily a bad thing, I rather like the SC18, and I also admire this new kit from Liberty Walk for what it stands for … and let’s not forget, even if you add the price of a Lamborghini Aventador (let’s say you get a second hand one), you go for the mixed FRP/Carbon fiber version at $123,200, add wheels, suspension, and a new exhaust in SVJ style … you would probably end up around $400,000, that’s still a long way from the rumored $7,000,000 the factory-built SC18 cost.

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Wataru Kato started Liberty Walk back in 1993 at the age of 25 in Nagoya, Japan so he could build cars in the Bosozoku style … lowered to the max, modified bodies with large fender flares rivetted to the body and usually a pair of tall exhaust pipes … usually onto a Skyline at that time … but time progressed, and after an impressive Lamborghini project his wide body kits for the Nissan GT-R and BMW M3 finally become known worldwide … and success was guaranteed from then on.

Now cars like the Ferrari 458 SEMA and the Huracan LB-Works are famous around the world, and while Liberty Walk offers more sensible aero kits for the Lamborghini Aventador too (even the new Aventador S) the most impressive ones are surely the LB-Works evolutions for the Huracan and the Aventador.

To celebrate his 50th anniversary, Wataru Kato created an evolution of his LB-Works Aventador, now called the Limited Edition, only 50 will be made for the entire world, 30 of those are destined for Japanese customers while 20 will go overseas … at nearly US$60,000 each when you opt for lightweight carbon fiber.

The LB-Works Lamborghini Aventador Limited Edition is a very extensive aerodynamic kit for the current V12 flagship from Sant’Agata … up front we start with a completely new bumper that comes with a deep, version 3 lower splitter, race inspired canards on the sides and a pair of vertical fins for stability.

These vertical fins are also present just ahead of the rear wheels while a set of side sills connect front to rear, where a massive new rear diffuser takes over from the factory original one, a new v3 rear wing is part of the kit and comes in a stunning clear carbon fiber on the show car in Geneva, and that same material is also visible on the new, very aggressively styled front hood complete with two large air vents.

Naturally, the most impressive feature of this Limited Edition kit from LB-Works are the four massive wheel arch extensions, showing their rivets with proud to cover some massively wide Forgiato wheels with Pirelli P Zero tires. Do note that the Airrex air ride suspension is a $9,500 option on top of the kit price.

Remember seeing the first video when Kato-San took a cutter to those expensive fenders of a pristine, factory fresh, $400,000 Lamborghini Aventador … that was terrifying … but today you can opt for a ‘Fender replacement kit’ that comes with those four extensions already fitted onto fenders that just replace the original ones … you will have to add $3,420 to the overall price for those.

With an aggressive look like this you will have to make a sound that matches, so Kato-San proposes an FI Exhaust system that really looks like a work of art, almost too good looking to hide underneath that widebody Aventador, but the resulting soundtrack will soon make you forget the price at a steep $12,000.

The car shown at the 2018 Geneva Auto Show was number 22/50, and we’ve seen several different cars being published online already, so just how many units still remain for this LB-Works Aventador Limited Edition isn’t known, but if you are interested in getting this kit installed on your own Aventador I would get in touch with Liberty Walk quickly.

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If you would opt for FRP the kit is a little cheaper, but CFRP would be the best choice for this impressive kit. Up front we get a new bumper (v2) and front diffuser (v3) which comes with new fins (also v3) and canards while a massive side sill gets added (v2) again with canards.

At the rear the already impressive diffuser we know has become even more intimidating (v3) and naturally that massive wing is still there (also v3) … a Kato-San created car wouldn’t be complete without a wide fender conversion, in this case they also have intakes in front of the rear wheels (the normal exchange fenders are a $3,240.00 option).

The front hood is also replaced on this LB-Works Aventador Limited, now featuring a pair of air vents to complete the aggressive look of this Japan style Raging Bull.

The render shows the well known Forgiatto wheels being installed again, while it is obvious an air suspension by Airrex just has to be added too (at $9,500) … but Liberty Walk also offers a pair of covers for the headlights in CFRP at $854.

This new LB-Works Aventador Limited might not please everyone, but still this is a very special car, and with only 50 in total to be built, it might be rare in the future …

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In fact the Liberty Walk car dealership is just on the other side of the road to the main shop and showroom, in the east side of Nagoya city … you really can’t drive by without noticing the impressive range of tuned exotics and special Liberty Walk cars … even on the car dealership the show cars are sitting low on massive wheels … this isn’t a small enterprise, that’s for sure.

And the workshop isn’t even near this showroom, in fact you’ll have to travel by car to this almost private body shop in Nagoya, where the Kato-san magic happens and true Japanese dream cars are created … it might be small, but at any time there are a lot of exotic cars being worked on, and transformed into LB Works specials … like the brand new LB-R Fighter Works F/N05 based on the Lamborghini Aventador.

While an Aventador LP700-4 is already a dream to own for many of us, Kato-san just wanted to put his kyusha roots style on the Italian pure-bred … which involves cutting the fenders on a $400,000 car to add a $30,000 kit, once the metal cutter goes into the bodywork of this Raging Bull there is no way back … only forward, until you end up with an Aventador by LB Works, complete with wide fenders and very low riding height.

But this time Wataru Kato wanted to go one step further, so he created an entire line of ‘Zero Fighter’ inspired cars, like a Porsche, Nissan GTR, BMW and Aventador … all with wide body kits and finished in matte grey to make them look like fighter planes … and which Japanese fighter plane is better known than the legendary Zero?

So you take a standard Aventador LP700-4, cut the fenders and install wide wheel arches, adding 30mm up front and 70mm at the rear. Install a very low and deep front bumper with larger air intakes, a set of side sills just to make things look even better, a lower rear diffuser with massive vertical fins for stabilization and let’s not forget that impressive GT race wing at the back … with those big struts that need a reinforced rear panel on the Bull just to make sure the wing doesn’t break away at speed.

Add a quartet of Forgiato Maglia ECL wheels, in a carbon fiber finish this time, measuring 9×20 on the front and 13×21 inch at the rear, put some Pirelli P Zero Nero tires on those, 255/30 ZR 20 and 355/25 ZR 21 respectively and all that is left is installing that special AirREX suspension to put this Lamborghini so low to the ground it wouldn’t even move in a hurricane. Being the latest, digital model from AirREX you can use a remote control to raise and lower the car on demand … adding a little ride height might be a good idea if you want to take this 700hp Bull onto the road.

Now we all have seen this style before, the wide body Aventador by LB Works has been built a few times already … but not with a Japanese fighter plane inspired wrap like this one … in fact this model also received a different name: LB-R Fighter Works by LB Performance and LB-700 F/N05 decals are found all around this matte grey wrapped Lamborghini.

Also red arrows and ‘Air intake’ warnings complete the fighter plane atmosphere, the yellow circle around the parking sensor just add that little extra attention to detail … or how about a ‘Torque all over fender attachment bolts 15 to 20 inch lbs’ decal on those wide wheel arches and an arrow with 35psi above the tires to inform you of the ideal pressure? Naturally there are decals from companies that have parts on this LB-R Aventador put everywhere, Artmania up front, or Pirelli, Forgiato, LB Performance and Made in Japan on the air intakes, or AirRex on the fenders and Fi Exhaust on the rear bumper … just above the custom ‘Frequency Intelligent Exhaust’ in fact.

What is really impressive about this style is the fact they used small airbrush touches to add ‘streaks’ on strategically chosen spots all over the body to make it look like she was in a high speed battle high up in the skies … just look behind the front wheels … that’s what happens when a plane lands … the rubber hits the tarmac and leaves streaks like this on the body … just awesome.

Now you may not like this style of tuning on the Lamborghini Aventador, the idea of cutting into the fenders of a $400,000 car like this might make your stomach turn … but Kato-san is all about having fun and being happy … and judging by the number of LB Works cars we’ve seen on the streets lately and the large amount of boxed being shipped out of Nagoya these days I guess a lot of high end exotic car owners feel the same…

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The latter might not really fall in line with the things Kato-san is doing, the part of the wider add-on fenders is true, but LB Works uses some of the most exotic Italian made cars as a basis, and these kits don’t come cheap either at prices around the US $30,000 mark, and that’s without the special Airrex suspension (about US $10,000), Armytrix Racing titanium Valvetronic exhaust system (also about $10,000) and a set of matching wheels in a staggered 20-21 inch setup, preferably made by Forgiato if you ask Kato-san (probably another $5,000 for the wheels and about $3,000 for the Pirelli P Zero tires).

So a quick math gets us at a grand total of about $58,000 for the entire LB Works aero kit with exhaust, suspension, wheels and tires … but without the donor car, which in this case is a $400,000 Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4, and the required paint and fitment … and trust me, fitting an LB Works wide finder kit onto an Aventador isn’t for the faint hearted … it involves actually cutting into all four wheel arches with an angle grinder.

But first, back to the start of this project, LB Performance released their intial aero kit a while ago already, back in 2013 at the TAS, Tokyo Auto Show, they unveiled the Aventador by LB Performance with her typical brushed aluminum wrap and thanks to the Airrex airride suspension system showing the low down Shakotan stance.

As amazing as this Aventador looked we all knew Kato-san still had something much more interesting in mind, think about his amazing looking Murciélago … or the Liberty Walk LB-R Limited Works 20 Murciélago as they call it, only 20 would be built, and she sold out a while ago … so we were all waiting for Kato-san to perform his magic on the new Aventador …

At the 2014 edition of the world famous SEMA show in the United States the Forgiato stand showed the totally over the top, ultra wide and extremely low riding LB Works Aventador, as far as we know this isn’t a limited edition, and with that massive rear wing it is without the doubt the most impressive car to leave their workshop in Japan.

Naturally Kato-san gets together with his designer in the initial stages and thinks about what style and width of ‘extensions’ would look best on the car, a Lamborghini Aventador in this case, once they get the look and feel just right Miura-san over at TRA Kyoto turns their ideas into a 3D image. Once aproved by Kato-san this design is sent over to a massive CNC machine that creates the moulds for the LB Works aero kit.

In fact the four ‘over-fenders’ as they are called are made from FRP which is a composite material made of a polymer matrix reinforced with fibers, however the front spoiler, side sills and rear diffuser can be ordered in FRP … or optionally in carbon fiber, the latter being about 25% more expensive, and let’s not forget that magnificent GT rear wing.

The first LB Works Lamborghini Aventador was naturally built in the actual workshop in Hagoya, Japan, by Kato-san and his team being the hands-on guy he is, in fact when this stunning baby blue metallic LB Works Aventador had to shipped to the United States to be featured at SEMA … she was only finished the night before … it takes some serious time from start to finish to create an LB Works Aventador.

Let’s start at the front, the entire original front bumper is replaced with an LB Works unit, that’s the easy part, you also add a more pronounced, far forward and very low additional fin underneath this bumper, together with two vertical fins on both air intakes. The styish side sills with their special upright just in front of the rear wheels are bolted onto the original Aventador side sills, again not too difficult in the end.

At the rear things get a lot more complicated, the lower rear diffuser from LB Works has some serious vertical fins that need to be mounted onto the original Lamborghini unit, complete with additional horizontal stabilization wings while the entire rear fascia on the Aventador needs some serious reinforcements to be able to support the massive GT rear wing that looks like it was taken straight from an Aventador GT1 race car.

Now comes the most frightnening part of fitting the LB Works aero kit … the wide fenders, which are in fact bolted onto the original fenders, but not before you have to remove a small strip from the front fenders and a rather large section from the rear ones so the wheels have enough space when mounting the Airrex airride suspension instead of the standard springs from Ohlins. Cutting the necessary sections away involves carefull measuring and gathering enough nerve to actually take an angle grinder and go to work.

Up front the ‘over-fenders’ are a two part item that add 30cm to the Aventador, one section is bolted onto the front bumper while the second section goes above the wheel and in front of the door, some really exact fitting is needed so you don’t mess up those trademark upward opening doors, once fitted at exactly the right spot you’ll have to drill holes into the fender, apply a rubber strip between the add-ons and the original fender and bolt everything down.

Once you’ve recovered from fitting the front ones, you’ll have to do it all over again at the rear, where these LB Works fenders add a massive 70mm and turn the already impressive Lamborghini Aventador into the beast Kato-san intended to build. If you look closely at these additional fenders you will however notice the attention to detail LB Works put into designing them … the follow the original lines of the Aventador and look like they’ve been intended to be there all along … Kato-san once again shows just how much of a genius he is when it comes to this style of aero tuning.

Time to get a set of wheels for the LB Works Aventador, and even before the first car was being built Kato-san contacted Forgiato to create a custom made set for his Lamborghini, because of the wider fenders these wheels needed some never before seen offset to fill the wheel arches to the brim … up front the 9×20 inch wheels come with a -7 offset while those deeply concave Maglia ECL wheels measure 13×21 inch with a -20 offset … add some Italian made Pirelli P Zero tires in 255/30ZR20 and 355/25ZR21 respectively and you know you have a winning combination to fill those brutal wheel arches.

Such a track inspired look requires performance and sound to match, so Kato-san went for an Armytrix titanium Valvetronic exhaust system, not only does it look great with those four square tips at the center of the Aventador, but a weight of only 8kg means you save a lot of weight over the original one, add a remote control valve system (an OBDII module) with three modes of ‘loudness’ and the fun can begin. Armytrix uses Aero grade titanium to construct these exhausts which include cat-bypass pipes … in addition to the amazing sound this offers a 35hp power increase.

I think this specific Kato-san LB Works styling with the typical wide fenders will fall into the ‘you love it or you hate it’ category, and looking at the number of Aventador that have been converted into full LB Works models a lot of people with the necessary cash love the look … a quick search indicates at least 7 Aventador have received the entire LB Works aero kit, 2 of them being a Roadster.

1. Blue metallic Aventador owned by Kato-san himself
2. Matte white Aventador shown at the 2015 Tokyo Auto Show
3. Orange metallic was the shade on the first LB Works Aventador in Indonesia
4. A Tron inspired wrap over an Arancio Argos Aventador become the first LB Works one in the United Kingdom
5. A black LB Works Aventador with LP720-4 style front and rear bumpers is located in Canada
6. A white LB Works Aventador Roadster rolls on red wheels
7. Recently published brushed steel LB Works Roadster is located in the United States

I’m almost certain there are more than 7 LB Works Aventador in the world by now, so the Kato-san style does have some avid fans out there … the least you can say is that these wide Bulls are different and look like no other you’ll ever encounter on the open road.

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