Return of the Iron Lion, Holden Kingswood 304 V8 Engine Swap [EP1]

[@NemetskyCzar]

Congratulations Woody, you've got Al saying "Iron Lion" without prompting!!

[@toveryonder1115]

please make the shirt "I'm not complaining. Because no one is listening" the most skid factory thing I have ever heard.

[@deeze67]

Use Ya' Brain still wins tho :D

[@kimmyrask7368]

This is such a regular saying in the north of Sweden haha!

[@toveryonder1115]

@@deeze67 isn't that a hat already tho? Perfect combo for skids at the rounda bout in me Ute

[@shuttlepilot_]

Christmas 2024. Rewatching all the old episodes from the good old days.

[@johan21mp]

What a beautiful Rhodesian Ridgeback Rumby is

[@Ecosse57]

my vote is more rumby in future videos and rumby merch.

[@theskidfactory]

@@markgallagher0000 He's mine (Al). We have had a few including a litter of 14 pups of which Rumbles was one.

[@Quetzalcoatl999]

@@theskidfactory Is that where you got Woody?

[@alexbrown1995]

I'm a Rhodesian too, but not quite as cute.....

[@BradGryphonn]

@@theskidfactory Nice. I've had many dogs in my life, but never a Ridgeback. However, they are a beautiful, loyal and protective dog. And Rumbles looks awesome. My best mate Jack is 16 now. He's a Cattle dog with a bunch of other stuff in him. He's near deaf and his back legs aren't what they used to be, but he's lived an adventurous life. Dunno what I'll do when he goes. He was the son of one of my other dogs and his mother was my soulmate's girl. He's more a son than a pet.

[@shodan]

Really liking the drone flyover shots, nice addition

[@joealex65]

That intro was the perfect start to another epic build on this channel! I love it! :D

[@danielprice8448]

Geez! everyone needs a mate like Al and Woody!... Generous blokes

[@davidflarrety9655]

Bugger me, in hospital again....Mostly feeling ok but a bit of anxiety tonight...Had a kidney transplant 34 years ago and this visit is related to that....But just like last time i was here The Skid Factory, M C M and BCW have all been great to keep my mind occupied....Have loved all three channels since they started

[@TwelveSevenTwoWorks]

Al’s face at the Iron-Bru 😄 Scotland’s hangover cure.

[@lukezivkovic3233]

My favourite thing about skid factory is that if it doesn’t need it for that particular application it doesn’t get added. Simplicity better than over engineering. Bare minimums easy to fix easy to install. Shit hot fellas 🇦🇺🙌🏽

[@dragbikedemon]

That look on Al's face with that first drink............priceless!

[@flailios]

So many memories from my childhood! The seats which got to a million degrees in summer, the ribs on the tail-gate & its wind-down window, even the seals around the doors & the dome light. Ours was gold, and called 'the golden holden', twin-pipes & tips.

[@Wulthrin]

"some of them just have a light to tell you when the engine is already melted to the ground" i laughed way too hard

[@victorbitter583]

To anyone not familiar with it, look up " Kingswood Country" on youtube. This will give you a good idea of your average Kingswood owner/family and a great snapshop of Australian life in them days.

[@watsisbuttndo829]

Agreed. Everybody had a family member like ted in the 70,s . A red holden 6 in a kingswood with vinyl seats is probably the most australian car ever built. They need to recieve a mention in the Australia Day honour list.

[@grumpyoldman-21]

money on the fridge wog ......

[@xgford94]

Omg that Drone shot been up and down that road so many times, love the Sunshine Coast, and the restaurants at Sunny Beach are awesome especially Mooska

[@theskidfactory]

Sum Yung Guys is the best. *Homer Simpson Drooling*

[@deanrobert8674]

Your not taking the Kingswood, I've just waxed the tow ball ! Lots off good times as kids in the 70's kick fighting in the back seat with my sister until the arm of calm would come over the front seat ! DON'T MAKE ME STOP THE CAR.

[@niallobrien4736]

Thanks Woody and Alan. Love seeing the and custom work and effort you guys put into the builds

[@rocket_skates-mj]

Project Binky reaches far and wide with bracket influence! Nik will be proud.

[@fishlexic]

Skid factory just got even better... workshop dogggggggg. The internet loves...... neeeds animal stars like this.

[@skylinevspec000]

Im so glad to see you are finally doing a kingswood. I have 3 of the old girls, all red 202's with trimatics. HZ, blew the head and melted the engine to the road so to say, still got the body. HX, schmick 50th anniversary and my pops HQ 25th premier. Love the old girls so much.

[@Thatsald]

Only 144k subscribers share the skid factory people these boys deserve more credit. Absolute champions

[@railtrolley]

A Kingswood Wagon was my first car. I remember the fuel stain running down the side. They were a PITA to refuel - kept "blowing back", and you had to fill very slowly to stop this happening. All the while the knee joints are protesting at the crouching. And 24c per litre for Super!

[@tiporari]

This is hands down the best show on the internet or TV. Thank you guys for all the hard work you put in to share it with us. God bless.

[@CombatLazza]

I actually did my L plates and then P plate driving test in my parents HJ 308 Statesman Deville, same color as that wagon (Chamois?). Good memories of that old thing. Good to see you’re sticking with the Holden V8 in his upgrade, each engine has their place but it makes a nice change. Enjoyable video, thank you and can’t wait for the next installment

[@Knaller2210]

Watching the guys driving through town right beside the beach makes me wanna move there. Awesome landscape

[@Adam-wq2jn]

Delighted you guys got to taste Irn-Bru, My Favourite, born and raised on it 😂

[@nitrokiller9959]

“KINGS-Wood” - David Freiburger Dragweek 2019

[@keevasmybitch]

The.... Kings-wood. It was pretty funny listening to them throughout the drag week cracking each other up with this joke, can,t wait for next year.

[@Frietpan]

@@keevasmybitch wut its already been to dragweek?

[@nitrokiller9959]

Keevasmybitch heck yea ahaha I died every time they started talking about it

[@nitrokiller9959]

Fryingpan no Not tho car but another one was on dragweek look it up

[@berylbarker2255]

My kids used to love to ride in the 'backa back" I owned a HJ can even remember the rego number from it, even now some 35 years later. I just loved that car!!

[@trefod]

Al's face at the tasting of the lemon squash :D also my favorite tool in the world, the impact screwdriver was featured. great episode!

[@robertharding2295]

I brought one of these off an elderly family member when I was a teenager. Always wondered why the tailgate was so heavy so we pulled the inner panel out to reveal the tailgate was filled with concrete as a rust inhibitor. Love seeing these older builds keep it up boys

[@playwme3]

Good to see a proper Aussie car on the channel. I’ve sold off a bunch of my H Series lately but kept the 2 Favourites, FLamenco Red HZ Sandman and Palais White HZ GTS.

[@alanbutler2579]

Awesome.

[@jaymckean3274]

Props to you for paying the proper tribute to a fine specimen of station wagons. It does look well kept after. Great video. ✌️😎

[@DStead2239]

First V8 I ever drove was my aunties 308 HZ Premier resplendent in gold, it was so slow but sounded really good. Told the old man I wanted a V8, he gave me an XE esp with a worked 351 and I stacked it within the week, my ass hurt longer than I owned it lol

[@woopimagpie]

You're not taking the Kingswood, I just ironed the mudflaps.

[@STAG162]

I just polished the dipstick!

[@villiersman951]

i just Pea Beued the bumper bar

[@grubmuntedlunchbox1599]

I just shampooed the battery

[@propylene22]

The cringe on Al's face when he said iron lion was priceless. Cool car, great videos guys!

[@speedking72]

Great show boys, it was great catching up with you boys and was a shame the roll racing was cancelled Woodrigos, we were looking forward to watching the Bedford :)

[@Mechknight73]

What you have is an HJ Kingswood Deluxe. That triple cluster instrument panel was standard on these, and of course the Premiers had them too. The HJ was the only one with the "fan sweep" speedo, as all others had "normal" instrument clusters

[@greyhairedphantom4038]

When i was a lad the builder i worked for had 4 kingo wagons. 253 x 3 on the tree. They replaced them every 3 years, the HQ 253s gave trouble as the guys were used to cast iron intakes and the adelaide water would destroy them in 12 months

[@BenchyTests]

Nice to see my country's national soft drink featuring!

[@715101]

centre punch studs @ 24:40 ive never seen that before, cheers ill definitely find a use for that trick

[@D_J_G88]

That motor in that engine bay 👌🏻😍 what a sick cruiser!

[@owenwalters7186]

You should call it the LION KING , Looking forward to this build

[@lvi7910]

Any shop with a Cosmo Kramer portrait on the wall is a good shop! 👍

[@ashleyrichards4241]

Hell yes. My old man had a xa falcon 500 wagon when I was a nipper. And one of these as a painters wagon

[@AfferbeckBeats]

Not a V8, but an XA wagon was the first car we had when I was a wee lad too. With the wind down back window.

[@ashleyrichards4241]

@@AfferbeckBeats the old seat belt buckles that were as efficient as a cattle brand

[@steveodonald1979]

Had to stop at 6:40 ... My first car (about 1998) was a CM Valiant wagon, 3.8 litre straight six, 1.7 tonne of car, and no power steer..... I really miss that beast.

[@twelvepointfour]

The only thing flat earthers have to fear is sphere itself!

[@ArKritz84]

Chris Sullivan it’s ok though, the flat earth community has members all around the globe.

[@truthseeker8483]

@@ArKritz84 flat earthers never venture outside their bedroom.....

[@evanjfraser]

@@truthseeker8483 if the earth isn't round, then why are tyres round? checkmate flatearthers!

[@viktordaz-haagen7834]

@evanjfraser The world isn't round, it's an oblate spheroid, and one of my tyre IS flat. Just saying... :-)

[@truthseeker8483]

@@evanjfraser mine are square

[@SuperEoin09]

That’s so cool man. Turbo Yoda having an Irn Bru!!!! And his reaction, sooo accurate. It’s not the same since the UK sugar tax came into force. Mind you they did remove nearly half of the 14 tea spoons of sugar in a 330ml tin. Keep up the great work.

[@jakeeclouse4799]

Another channel that gets an automatic like. Already know it's going to be good. The skid factory is the shiz. Never missed a video.

[@nickmitrevski6315]

Well done boys gee that brings some very good memories back to me,,, As I was born in the early 70s and grew up with these cars like LJ Torry 186 triple Webber's and the old RT chargers were cool as well. I remember back in the day the old chargers were laughed at and now the RT charger is fetching big dollar's .

[@dannyhicking]

@8:58 Love that Al nearly slipped. Embrace the Iron Lion Al ;-)

[@kevkoala]

I learnt to drive in a HQ Kingswood station wagon with a 253 thongslapper and a traumatic gearbox. In the end, it ended up getting a GTS dash and a T-bar auto with the centre console. I so miss that car and the memories and wish to get a HQ station wagon so I could build my own vision of what I wanted to do to the old girl.

[@mattt83]

This is great, I've almost the same car. Hearing the 202 driving brought back some memorys

[@ShaunButterley]

"SEMA ready!" @ 26:47 Thanks Woody :)

[@heinzlangeder624]

Laughed at Al's "Thing" impersonation when the radiator went in!

[@fzswede9533]

Editing is on point Woody ! 👌🏻 And Rhodesians are the coolest dogs, my family have had four. And has two right now 🙂 Just wish there were an Al to pump up the power on my 530 e39 touring 😉🤙🏻

[@RussellBooth1977]

The fuel injectors on my Chevrolet LS1 V8 engine in my VY Commodore are rated at 28 lb hr (294 ccs per minute) @ 58 PSI or 24 lb hr (252 ccs per minute) @ about 40 PSI,they are good for about 370 hp which is what mine puts out !

[@brianmaynard7320]

Allen, your fab skills are AWESOME!! Truly amazed every time you make parts.. Great vids!!!

[@thomasphilyaw8593]

It's good to finally see woody again.

[@PRamsey77]

I’ve always wanted a hot rod wagon. Can’t wait to see this one do some skids.

[@shamarty8]

Bro I legit felt my heart skip a beat when you sped up the video while you were dropping the tranny. I thought for a split second, your jack had shit itself and it was falling!

[@cbr954glen]

The first mod I did was power steering. Not only does it make it easier to turn the wheel, it changes the ratio from 21:1 to variable 16:1

[@jamesmcdonald5247]

Loved your reaction to full fat Iron Bru. Great show cheers James from Scotland,

[@helmotchops]

Hi from Scotland. Irn bru is the national drink here.

[@nathanpeachs2704]

My first car was a HZ wagon same colour, 202 motor, this one has nicer interior then mine was brown lol. Love this project!

[@stevenhall1004]

I wonder how many people knew what the manual impact driver was. Dont see them much anymore. Very handy tool

[@MrDwyers1]

Its so pretty! My folks had a gold one. Tan vinyl interior. No A/C. The PTSD is real.

[@leroybrown1964]

Keep up the great work Al and Woody

[@salmanmehmood]

Al is such a natural now. Kudos to MCM

[@churchill3601]

YUS! taken me back to being a lil fella on long family trips in the Kingy wagon...you guys just keep on killin it-love it

[@scottgibson559]

That's a tidy old girl.it's about time we see ya build a car for ya self Al your always putting the hard yards in on other time to do one for ya self oh and ya dog is awesome

[@nathanfawcett9296]

Turbo Yoda is so chill. Love it.

[@asjmpickle]

I love Al's welding style.

[@timjohnun4297]

I have to give this a double like, because my first car was an HJ Kingy, and I also have a Ridgy! Best dogs ever! Not quite so sure about the kingswoods though ;)

[@Tuilaione]

Ive dreamt you do the Kingswood Justice... Thank you... Dream come true... Bring back Kingswood.

[@darley04]

Keen to understand how the column shift will work with the T700. I have a complete set of linkages from a column shift HQ that was fitted with a 308 & T400 (converts the shift to the left side of the transmission) that i thought would solve the issue but never got around to using them.

[@adam3842]

Love the sunny coast, miss it heaps.

[@CyberBeatAustralia]

Same here, used to live on Bribie Island and often visited the sunny coast, many memories!

[@peterhermansson8388]

Nice too see some new tools and dacka dacks in the shed👌 maby a aircon next 😊

[@christophercav8192]

This take‘a me back a mate and myself put one of these motors in his 1964 EH special sedan did it all ourselves did it over 15 years ago still going strong used to take it to the Cooroy car show it won best modified 60s one year It now has injected 304 ,mild cam modified 4l60e cut down borg Warner lsd ,330mm front rotors ,AU3 front calipers (hoppers stoppers kit) VN hsv slotted and vented rear brakes 17x7 custom made bon speed rims painted a custom colour looks hot pink in certain light took us 8 months of long nights and weekends but was well worth it in the end

[@peteblack50]

A big Lion Dog and Irn-Bru, it doesn't get any better!

[@daven2609]

thank you Turbo Yoda ive always follwed yoiur channel ever since ya started as skid factory

[@Huntsman084]

Good on ye for getting the irn-bru on the go lads, cracking stuff!!

[@jamesmcmechan888]

Oil, AMP, and Water gauge was part of the GTS dash option.

[@marklitzow2743]

Only 34 but remember parents having one when a kid, ending up being a paddock car learning to drive when 12ish. Old faithful.

[@imidsikkey]

Beautiful ridgeback!

[@keithhaycraft3765]

The Holden Trimatic gearbox was chosen by Rolls Royce for their cars so they bought the rights from Australia. When they tried to put it in their cars, it did not work. Rolls Royce contacted the Australian manufacturers to find out why. The response was to ask what RR had done, they were told that RR had built the box exactly to specifications which they were told was the problem. RR was told to get rough & work on the basis that near enough is good enough which they proceeded to do. The result was that the box worked perfectly. During WW11 RR sent aircraft engines to the US to be used in aircraft there. The engines were assembled & didn't work so the Septics contacted RR to complain. When RR asked what the Americans had done, they were told the engines were removed from their packaging & assembled. RR told the Yanks that was their problem- the components needed to be polished before assembly!

[@Isaac-zz2uv]

This takes me back to my dads old red hq wagon with velvet red interior thing was comfy af

[@TeamGambleBMX]

Yes! Irn-bru. You should try some Buckfast also. Alcoholic tonic wine from the West of Scotland. "Wreck the hoose juice"

[@rayg9069]

If both the oil pressure and temp gauges are in one binnacle that's a Production Option UD1, quite rare and most commonly found as part of the 'Police special build'. If the temp and oil gauges are in seperate binnacles that'd be a Statesman deVille dash. Some production numbers HQ (late 70-74) 485,000 ish units. HJ (late 74 - mid 76) 176,000 ish units, massive numbers for Australia when our population at the time was only around 13 million.

[@STEVEGSXR]

Love the show from the start the camera work is getting better and better every show, keep up the good work 👌

[@stephenmorrish]

Very reminiscent of my dad's Vauxhall Victor when I was a kid. Bigger, of course, we only got little cars here in the UK.

[@gjmob]

HJ with HZ grill? What killed a lot out these on rough outback roads was breaking a windscreen, pushing it out and keep driving. Used to see lots of them with radial cracks at the top corners going into the roof.

[@leviwebb9401]

good tunes good people awesome projects you guys never let us down.

[@chi3f_9th_nine52]

My parents had the HZ 308 sedan in the late 80s when I was a young fella. I still remember jumping in it on a hot north Queensland summer's day and burning the shit out of your legs. Lol

[@kizjay2730]

Chi3f9 nine so did mine 308, 4 speed and GTS dash. Also bought in the late 80’s did plenty of summer holidays in it, black vynal interior made it particularly unpleasant

[@jamesblanton9364]

Ouch dude same here, and with sunburn after a day at the beach, nasty stuff.

[@markusantonio4866]

Yeah, the buckles on the seatbelts, too.

[@stephenhunter70]

I was thinking it was a 308, where did they get the idea that it was the American 304

[@superfluid6855]

@@stephenhunter70 watch the 304 build and fabulous secrets will be revealed to you. Hint: it involves getting around certain ATCC rules back in the day

[@tawidave7092]

I don't know if you planned that intro, but it was pretty smooth.

[@robjw66111]

IRN-BRU Made in Scotland from Girders - Love that stuff can sometimes get it IGA...

[@robertbrugh8426]

Back in the day when Holdens were real Holdens. Love the HR tail lights. The one unique thing about Holdens was they were like a new bride something old something new.... as the saying goes. Drove a mates 73 wagon with 253 2bbl and traumatic. Seeing that brings back memories. Looks to be in top nick despite being close to saltwater.

[@backyardbangers1012]

Hr tailights where??? What you talking bout willis!

[@AlistairLattimore]

That engine looks like it was meant to be in that engine bay from day zero, awesome !

[@aidenh2563]

The car was designed to fit the 253 and the 308 which is the same as the 304 which is just a newer version. It's just like fitting a 90s Vortec in a 70's chevy that had a SBC.

[@michaelbeattie6953]

Wow that thing brings back memories of my childhood. I specifically remember the rear window winder for some reason.

[@bluecent]

Michael Beattie they were prone to snapping and over time the winder grinds and arc into its housing

[@brendanf2705]

Always love the tunes you boys use for your vids! Keep up the awesome work! 🤙🏼🤙🏼

[@jeffd313]

So happy to see regular programming returning without bow 😍