Stockies look good, but some Calais International alloys look even better. I’m enjoying the videos, keep them coming.

Mate Holden 5L is the best sounding V8 in the world hands down. Dont care about the HP the note it makes just mint. Cant wait to see more vids. Good stuff!

Subbed up Brother, keep em coming. Owned a blue 89 VN V6 cam chip OTR exhaust n VR/VS HSV body kit went hard for a V6, white 97 VT V6 wagon (high kms) and am now the very proud owner on my delish white 2016 VF2 V6 wagon Adventure Series (factory upgrades) 124,000km I'm the second owner 😍😆 Chur from over the ditch 🤙🏻🤘🏻 🤜🏻🇦🇺🇳🇿🤛🏻

Looking forward to the future videos.

Good to see a Holden V8 not chev 5.7 .Holden V8 sounds lot better than 5.7 chev and I think they are a better motor

Insane👌

Whenever I see the H plates I have to remember these are 25 years old! Feels so recent that they were new.

New subscriber mate. Love the Vt commodore.

Holden 304. Love `em. I have a `99 roller cam v8 in S3 ute. I also had ignition issues so I replaced the dizzy with a new RAE advertised to have the Bosch hall effect sensor. Installed and still ran like shit. Problem solving for weeks. Last option was to remove the new dizzy. Sure enough the hall effect sensor had Chinese writing all over it. Replaced the sensor with the Bosch unit out of the original dizzy. Ran superbly. Chinese shit.

Enjoying the videos mate. Looking forward to seeing more in the future.

Been watching your stuff for a while on TT and enjoy your content. Yes what was old is now really old and what’s old now only seems like yesterday! GenX getting old! Soon to be very old 😂 I to have a VT 5L ex Victorian car DBH with the XX3 option 5L. And it’s worth bugger all now, in fact I’ve spent more on it than it’s currently worth, but with cars when’s a good time to do work on one. VT parts cheap currently won’t be soon and will get hard to find. It’s all relative just own what you like and spend what you can afford! Mostly enjoy the history, nostalgia that was the Australian auto industry.

Just bought a VT SS 5L. Love this vid

Got the same model but SS. Not fast but sounds great and we do all our long trips in it as it is super comfortable. I'm older and lost any vanity so lowering just doesn't work especially on crappy roads.

New subscriber 🤙. Definitely keen to see future videos.

man we did the exact same thing with buying these cars, marketplace surfing and straight to pick it up. i paid way too much but i didnt want someone to grab it before me lol.

Just got yourself a subscriber. Let’s get it into it!!!! Love the VT’s as well.

found one with a rebuilt motor that was in a rear end smash, so motor was mint still. sat for nearly 10 years in a paddock. took the motor out and all other bits and bobs for my VR. motor ran on engine stand mint. Now just waiting on wiring to come back. cant wait to ditch the v6 in my track ute

I love the 304's. Unfortunately they stopped updating them, my VF Calais v v8 wagon is amazing as a car against almost everything.

The VS Series two and early VT Calais had some awesome stock alloys that look fantastic when polished up well.

liked and subbed. cheers mate for sharing. love the calais.

Like your content. Had that 5 Litre in my 99 SS back in the day. Good motor. 👍

i got a '99 factory manual SS, still got under 190xxxkms, i love the sound!

Hey Man. Im a Commodore man too. I love all Holdens. I too do my own work on them. Love that youre doing it all yourself. Way to go.

Good vid bro 👌

OMG i stripped front off my 5L engine twice also, but hold the phone my third gremlin was a head gasket. 😂

Bloody oath my brother just got a 1995 vs v8 state o ❤❤

I think the vs s3 ute or stattos were technically the true last recipients of the iron lion.. Definitely don't need to remove the mani to get the dizzy, installing that back on and aligning the gaskets is probably just as painful as removing the dizzy with it on, but good luck! I sold my exact twin of yours last year and I do miss her !

I'm glad I'm not the only nuts bloke out there sinking $$$ into an old Calais!!!

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I had a similar issue with my Vt SS years ago, replace your EFI relay . That’s what fixed mine.

Learnt to drive in a bog tock vt series 1 Calais 5l loved it have had 7 vts since

5L 304 best sounding V8, prefer it over any LS anyday

So glad to see this - Still a bit sore from walking away from mine in 2019 for a HSV VE 307 Clubby. The LS2 is great but I do miss the HP block sound. Nothing seems to beat the sound of the 5L V8. The last thing I did was the dizzy, but even after that it would stop randomly - thats when I called it quits. Apparently it may have been the wiring loom

Subscribed and following! I have a 5L VT SS auto which I'm restoring 👍

Injected 5L content, you now have a new follower, If the ignition problem still exists after replacing the dizzy it will be the brown tacho signal wire getting to much electrical interference

I’ve got quite a few vehicles, VN, VP,VS

I had a series 3 vs Maloo with this motor, but nothing even comes close to my series 1 vs 5lt ute, the best throaty sound from any holden stock car. if someone offered me a new series 1 5lt vs or 10 Ferrari's I'd take the holden any day of the week

Would be cool to see a video of your car history and what else you like. I love the noise of these 5l commodores but am a nissan tragic at heart but can appreciate anything cool!!!!

imo the 304 should’ve been an optional engine up until VY

Got a bit excited seeing they could get club rego at 25 years but it’s 30 here and my 99 SS 5L only ever drives to and from the rego inspection. 😐

Nice mate. But you say Elephant, not Alephant.......:) Al the best

It seems like the Chevrolet LS1 V8 engine in my VY SS Commodore is better than the old 5 litre Holden V8 engine setup in the VT series 1 Commodore. There's no distributor to worry about & I have heard that despite bumping the power up another 11 kilowatts (179 kilowatts) over the VS Commodores power output it was a bit of a slug because of the extra weight. I run a tuned LS1 V8 engine which has more go than the stock LS1 V8 engine. As far as the VT Commodores being a dime a dozen there's more V6 cars around & not many of the 5 litre V8 cars around now. It makes me wonder if I haven't heard from Tomago Aluminium because they just think that I drive the iron lion in the wrong direction when it's a 5.7 litre alloy Chevrolet V8 engine which my VY has fitted into it !

Nice vid ill buy your stockies mate just what I'm after for my VX.

I had a vs seires 2 5 lt ute it would stop running after 15 minutes or so, many machanics couldnt work it out, all it was wrong was the metal heat shield from the spark plug boot touching the block causing it to short. so i removed all shields and never had a problem

how much you reckon those boot garnishes go for now? im needing one for my calais

Haha i just had the distributor done on my 5.0l VT i took one look and said stuff that and paid my awesome mechanic $120 to do it for mee lol you'll need a ton of Wd forty or something to spray it down good they get pretty stuck in there

How much more would it cost to use LS coils, and a Haltec ECU rather than replace the distributor and just put a stator in the distributor in lieu of a crank angle sensor? You would have better spark and fuel control?

Hall effect sensor cost 30 bucks if that at dick smith or jb hifi one if them better than 300, its a magnet sensor like a v6 cas but on dizzy not crank why do a new dizzy,do sensor and cap n rotor thats it why make it so hard no need to take intake off , remove leads remove dizzy cap use 30 dollar tool comes with Holden and ford , remove nut holding spring wire over clip ,shit only because you cant see it you go ohhh and rip half the engine apart,while you're doing intake whynot do the heads only afew bolts and a couple bucks away

I can’t imagine being able to just get bits for my Vauxhall Monaro cv8 late model. The uk sucks

Iron lion.not a good motor by any stretch of the imagination...but sound good

As much as I love this kind of 5ltr content I can’t stand how the video is out of focus and the framing of you and subject is terrible e.g half of your head. I just can’t watch it