I finished fitting my new brake discs and pads on Friday afternoon. The weather was brilliant and I was really up for going for a drive...only problem was the brake pedal was going to the floor after bleeding the front brakes. I really didn't want to bleed the whole system until my new master cylinder arrived, so I was demoted to passenger and man with the cam.

About mid afternoon Steven appeared in his immaculate EK9 Civic Type R (formally owner of a dishy Mk4 Polo). He was shortly followed by Stuart in the G40 and Callum in his Civic Coupe.

So we headed off south bound to trek over Cairn o' Mount...again. First time for Callum and Steven, I think they enjoyed it! We stopped for some photos at the Clatterin' Brig (that's clattering bridge in English ) and to pick a suitably large gap in traffic for the drive up the mountain. Nothing worse than getting stuck behind a slow car, which is exactly what happened...old people doing 40mph in a diesel Focus...YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!

EK9 Civic Type R:

EM1 Civic VTi:

Polo G40 with a view:

Polo G40 with a review:

Group:

On the road:

Nipping on a bit:

450 meters above sea level. You can just see the sea at the top right of the horizon:

EK9CTRJDMy0!LOLZPMSL:

Spoon 4 Piston Calipers...feel the power!

The ascent only lasts 10mins or so...the descent how ever lasts a good while longer making up most of the 14 mile road. The speed picked up a little here. With the EK9 out in front most of the pictures are of it...but that's no bad thing...

The road eventually descends enough for trees to reappear. As it winds through the forest it snakes left and right over lumps, humps and bumps. Your on the seat of your pants at 40mph. The best section for sure...braking points made for a good opportunity to take steady pictures as the seat belt held me in:

Parked up after a thrilling ride:

HONNNNDA!

Got to treat your car well, the G40 gets a power wash after a good spanking:

Edited 19 April, 200818 yr by Tav

nice pictures nice cars me likes

Stop posting pictures of these awesome roads, its making me jealous

That EK9 Type R is tasty, I would love one.

Ahhhhh I want the EM1 VTi!!! Any more pics of that?

Cool pics and nice cars

A scottish road trip HAS to be done in the summer

Cool pics and nice cars

A scottish road trip HAS to be done in the summer

yessssss mate!

i have to agree!

EK9 is the titties!

love ek9 type r's

great cars, want one one day but insurance is a killer...and the fact you proper have to thrash em lol

good pics tav

Cool pics and nice cars

A scottish road trip HAS to be done in the summer

yessssss mate!

i have to agree!

Lets get it organised then dude :-D instead of just keep saying it

I vote make a weekend of it, in the summer sometime when theres no shows on, but a weekend where there is a meet

Either that or arrange a "welcome the english scum" meet for when we get there

Maybe open it up to all marques...... :-D

Scottish road thrash weekend

Scottish road thrash weekend

you in?

Anymore?

am there homes

Coolio :-D

I`ll start a thread in meets section, less clutter in Tavs thread then :-D

More pics of the EM1 Vti as requested by some...Pushes 173 BHP from its wee 1.6 engine :)

Spec list for it is as follows.....

1598cc 16v DOHC VTEC

Supersprint 4-2-1 manifold

Magnaflow Sports Cat

Powerflow backbox

BMC induction filter

Custom re-map with Dastek ECU & chip

D2 coilovers

Stock wheels - powdercoated black

195/55/15 Pirelli P6000

Front upper strut brace

Black Diamond front brake disks

JDM front foglights

Boot lid de-spoilered

JDM Type-R grille

JDM wind deflectors

USDM-style rear running lights

Gold calipers front and rear

Front JDM Integra Recaro seats

JBL Anniversary 12" subwoofer

JBL Anniversary 6x9"

Infinity components & tweeters

Pioneer CD/MP3 head-unit

cheers for the pics of my EK9 Tav!!!

was soooooooo much fun, need more on the move photies

Updated with the rest of the pics... a lot of the good angles were too blurred from the car moving about whilst taking the picture. Will have to try again in future with a DSLR.

If anyone likes what they see in those pics, take a look at this thread and join us some time in the summer!

http://www.clubpolo.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=103509