We wanted to be sure of our Engine rebuild so we decided to take the car to a rolling road specialist, high on the recommendation list was "Paul Goy" racing in Lincoln, Handily they are only 3 miles from home.
We borrowed a car trailer from our "Dutton" owning friend Tim Roy, I must admit to being pretty nervous about driving a year and a halfs work and lots of money up onto this rather rickety looking trailer. Tims dad had showed us the technique involved in loading the car, first attempt saw the rear of the trailer dropping down as soon as the cars wheels hit the ramps! Mmm OK we have a ton of house bricks sitting outside the house (Don't ask) so we stacked some under the back of the trailer to hold it all in place .
Now we had the car loaded as shown, next problem was to lower the front end down, this set up had a pole held up with a grub screw which needed loosening to let the pole slide down, I was not too happy doing this because we had a lot of engine weight over this pole! We decided to use the trolly jack and a block of wood to lower it down.
As you can see Joey was pretty nervous, seeing his pride and Joy sitting at this precarious angle.
Here you can see the high tech, Pole lowering device, Eeek!
Well we made it without any further problems, once it was lowered down the whole thing was a lot more stable and a couple of straps kept the whole thing nicely in place
All the way some twat was following right up our arse! 
We managed to remove the Hood a easily by leaving it connected to the Trusty Mondeo, and using the trolly jack to lift the front of the trailer up sufficiently.
Amazingly enough in the time we were waiting for Dougie the tuner to do his bit Joey never once asked for a burger from the van over the road
This is the last picture of the exhaust before it became a much darker colour after hitting the rolling road.
Before the Hood went in we watched a Mini stock car racer doing a rolling road sesh, after seeing this we were quite glad not to have to watch Joeys hood getting revved like the poor old Mini.
In the end Dougie reset the tappets set the camshaft timing and cured an air leak on the inlet trunking then he put it on the road and did the test it was 65 HP at the back wheels which means about 105 at the engine, we are quite happy with that. Dougie did tell Joey that his grinding in of the valves must have been a good job because the Co2 reading was really low ( Mind you he may have said some other reading but he had lost me by then)
So all in all a very good experience for both Joey and myself, Dougie was very good with Joey and answered all his many questions very well. Apparently Chris ('S) Goldson had had their Exmo in for a job a week ago which was a good sign.
Finally We can recommend Paul Goy Racing thouroughly they are very nice people
When we got home Joey let our pal Stuart have a quick drive of his car, mind you as usual Joey wanted a lift
Stuart had touble with the fixed seat and we had to give him a cushion so he could reach the clutch pedal
