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[techieboy]

had to do this dreary yearly ritual instead.

That's what I need to be doing. Would probably be too much of a p!ss take to turn up at my friendly place, with no handbrake and no cat.

[The Batman]

thats minor

[techieboy]

Think the handbrake, the doors, the horn and the lights are the only bit that he tests. Car is too low to get over the jacking beam across his inspection pit.

[JG]

Now as clean on the outside as the underside

[rob999]

I can see some brakedust on the nearside front, Four O'clock.

[JG]

I doubt it They've been triple waxed to build up the layers a bit to make them as easy to clean as the speedlines.

[TazN]

JG I'm once again lost for words. Those look stunning Did you paint the discs? Or are they just that clean?

[JG]

They are inded painted, but they were also zinc plated by CRN, which has worked quite well to keep them looking good.

I did notice that the Zinc coating isn't up to the job of very high track temperatures though as it has started coming away in a couple of spots.

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[VXT Tim]

Much better exposed

[JG]

I liked the over exposure of the first one

[Bargi]

Dare I suggest it.... black surround

[JG]

You might be right

[TazN]

JG I'd say black surround but with your standard V it looks spot on. Just enough contrast to all the black

[starlight]

I'm with TazN - silver V, silver windscreen surround

[JG]

Got home quite late last night, and was due for a couple of drinks with some old VXers near Virginia Waters. Clearly every one was enjoying the sunshine yesterday at home because the roads were near empty. I haven't had such a good drive in years. It was one of those moments where everything just gels, warm enough to have the roof off without being cold, no crap in the car rolling around, seemingly no rattles, anything you were thinking flies out of the roof just like the warmth from the heater. It didn't need to be a drive as fast as it goes, using 70-80% of the performance still makes for terrifically fast progress. The modifications on the car over the last two years have finally come full circle and the car is balanced again. The power matches the braking and the suspension system almost perfectly, resulting in a fluidity i've rarely encountered in a road car. Not since i drove a standard NA perversely. The calm of the night on the way home, the road to myself and the roof off, threw up some new and interesting sounds and smells. The exhaust note doesn't sounds like an exhaust at all, least not the as one would imagine it. Initially it sounds like air rushing, and as that air clearly can't make it out as fast as it would like it starts to roar with a real sense of emergency, the best desciption i can give is it is akin to after burners in a jet engine. Its really quite something and whilst its not really intrusive nor loud, at the top end it does become pretty ear piercing in confined places such as tunnels and under bridges. VXs do this, they are renound for it, the last time i remember enjoying the drive so much was on the way back from le Mans in 2009. The vx has been used quite a lot recently, maybe thats the key, who knows? What is certain is that 7 years into the ownership of this car it can still surprise and delight in equal measure and there are still no cars bellow £60k that could temp me away from it. No pictures you'll be glad to hear, just a bloody good drive.

[techieboy]

just a bloody good drive.

and a clean, presumably?

Nice one. I might try the same, one of these days.

[JG]

nope, its in the garage, completely splattered with flies and mosquitos (at one stage yesterday, i thought it was raining) Luckily i don't mind cleaning it

[JG]

This turned up on PH:

[Goosenka]

What a photo!!! Ps you spelt surprise wrong

[ben922]

JG can you clean my car like that please