Turbo Charged 138 Grey motor in 1953 FX Holden Ute Ep2 

This is so cool. Looks classic at a glance, looks perfect close up, and that's gotta be the happiest grey motor in existence. Fantastic mix of retro and modern.

That’s one Cool Holden Ute love it 👍👍👍👍👍💪💪💪💪🤪😝😃😎🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🧨

what a built, nice to see a good old "Grey motor" get up & boogie

Beautiful!!! Love the acceleration shots. Didn't think a STANDARD grey motor would ever handle a turbo 😂❤❤

These kind of guys are bloody amazing. It not just a resto it’s a complex engineering and design masterpiece. I have none of these skills and I’m insanely jealous. Great stuff.

Good colour choice, really suits the car. I would never have thought about banging a turbo an old 138 Grey. And would not believe the power it puts out now. Awesome Ute, really well done, sounds and looks great.

Love it! Fun fact, years ago I had a mate with a ski boat that had an inboard grey motor. It absolutely flew! Apparently it was a popular thing, water cooled manifold and such for a grey motor we’re off the shelf.

That is the coolest Holden Ute I've ever seen, love the color, just beeeeutiful! i own a 63 1/2 ford ranchero, love small trucks, from orange county, Ca.

So very cool, the car, the driver and your dad, and of course, the interviewer, well-done everyone. I love it.

awesome. I've had my FX sdn for 34 years. I got a CrissCross drawing from my son for my birthday a few years ago. It's bloody awesome.

What makes this so cool is it's so tasteful, thank God this colour choice took over as well as doing the turbo grey, honestly never seen anyone do a performance grey before.

A great build. Truly unique as well.

Beautiful old ute!

" ... an awesome twist on a classic restomod ... " says it all. Mark and John Riek, with the input of the many others involved, have done a standout job and it sets them shoulder to shoulder with the best of their peers. Great job guys, and thanks cca for bringing it to us.

LMAO at Old mate standing next to his truck. he's like WTF that old ute shouldn't being making that kind of noise and that speed..

Top shelf mate !!,, credit to your dad aswell, youd hate yourself if you sold it !

Someone has finally put the super cool into a 48 215 Holden utility. Great work guys.👌

Awesome ute, Holden power. 👍👍👍

That's a very impressive restoration and modification. Very traditional on the outside but under the skin is a lurking beast. And a Grey motor to boot!

Great little truck and the driveline is spot on nothing like a sleeper.

Oh wow, you really woke that sleepy old grey up, it sounds so gnarly 👍

that's absolutely beautiful. I grew up with those old Holden's. when I was 17 I had a jet black FC ute with a 179ci with an ausie 4 speed. this ute is next level.

Looks absolutely spot on 😍😍👍👍

Best FX ever. Love the retro color. 👍👍👍

What a wicked little sleeper ute, well done mate, looks awesome :)

Absolutely love it best most tasteful retro mod build I’ve ever seen of an Fj and a turbocharged Grey motor absolutely blown away I’ve always wanted to do a promod Fj with and Ls powerplant but cootoes for keeping with the 6banger super cool.

Very sweet... and I'm a Ford bloke.

This is awesome, just love it.

the lion roars loud in this one anyone willing to put that much R n D plus mucho $$$ into an engine of 1963 vintage thats mighty impressive

Love 48 -215s yours certainly is She's a beauty Keith

BEAUTY VIDEO

She is looking great Mark, very tidy for a 12 second ute

Nice Aussie muscle car/truck. It reminds me of another RU-vid vid called Snapper And Frank. In it was an old rusty Holden Ute that was turned into a rat rod. It was in Mad Max 4: Fury Road.

Love it, inspires me to do my FJ Ute like this

Wow. Congratulations on one the most amazing build I have ever seen. What a work of art from bumper to bumper

Absolutely amazing! Love the build, fortune favors the bold.

Looks absolutely fantastic 👍 🇦🇺

Great job guys, what a cool car.

Street machine magazine should do an article on this ute. Love it!

Absolutely stunning

This brought back some memories of the 70s. We had a bright yellow FX ute with turbo 186 motor (built by Wayne Mankhen). 4 speed box, Fiat 2300 disc brake rear end, HR disc brake front. Surprised a GT Falcon when we went around him on the Midland Hwy and he couldn't catch us. She was a bit squirrely at 140mph though :) Better at lower speed for sure.

Quality build. Go the grey!

I was in a early Holden club in the 1970,s . On one club run a fx Holden turned up with a turbo charged grey motor. Also remember Peter Campo FX Holden with turbo grey . By no means the First. If your going to modify a grey motor definitely the EJ is the best due to constant upgrades over the years.

Beaut, what can I say! I had a '54. Wish I'd kept it, but I was 16 and didn't have any money and mum wanted it out of the yard.😁

I had a '53 green sedan, 100% original back in 1975, cost me $200 regoed on the road, how times have changed.

Absolutely love it . 👌

One of the coolest fx utes in Australia, old school all the way. Perfect colour choice and wheel choice

Do I spy Macdonnell Rd in one of those shots? Great car man had a bit of experience with red motors but to see a grey with modern goodies on it is awesome

love this.

super sweet

I came across fx holden ute in a outback rubbish dump the body was sad but the grill was still in reasonable condition

Perfect!

For those interested in the grey motors place in Australia's car culture,look on the FI nostalgia forum where lot s of info has been posted about the great things that people did to increase power out put of grey engines back in the 50's and 60's because better race engines just wren't available in Australia. Affordable ones that is. Things like Phil Irving's Repco head as an example. Waggots cams ,which actually worked ,I've even seen a barrel valve race engine based on a grey motor.

Beautiful car

Beautiful car,nice & clean.very tidy unit.

There was a fx ute with a supercharged Grey motor in it up at rocky years ago that went out to the drags every now and then it was painted gun metal grey was a quick ute too

Looks almost like a Studebaker

Very cool!

I bought my first car in 1966 a FX for $200 the next 3 I bought in order where FJ FE FC guess I was a Holden guy LOL . I was 16 in 66 .

Sick ute would of been nice to know what the kw or bhp on motor was an at the back wheels with all that's done to the grey

that is art

My first car was an FB sedan with a gray motor. Wish I’d looked after it and kept it. Very cool car.

Top machine 🏆

Thats Awesome

Had a stock 138 in my FB and was slow because of the power to weight. A solid vehicle though and just about everything was steel. But this beautiful beast would be an adrenalin rush to drive. Be very interesting to know its KW output and gross weight.

Sweeeeeettt

Awesome set up! Ive got a 1968 XT ute same colour as that, Haze Green and I want to set it up like the FX Holden Ute. Im running a 221 with a pre cross flow 2V. Any chance I could get a parts list?? Build mine to suit what I got of course

Charly west in perth made a gray run in his speedcar at Clermont speed way

love the car , well done , but you missed telling us how many HPs has it got

drove my chevy to the levee.lol

That turbo must put a helluva strain on those four main bearings. Did you do any beefing up of the crank area?

As an old Holden driver, I have to ask the question. Does the hand brake work?

whats been done lower end i wonder.

I thought the fx had an 132 sideplate motor the 138 came out in the fj .

Any HP figures?

Nice, what is the HP ?

FJs were in 1953 that is an FX which came out in 1948 ....

Now the exercise in futility,,, keeping a crank in it. Personally I feel it needs a 3 speed gearbox as well Traumatic, TH350?? Nice thing,, just get rid of that bloody grandpa sunvisor

THIS USA MOTOR HEAD WANTS TO KNOW WHAT A GREY ENGINE IS? NICE BUILD, HOWEVER!!

Enjoy, not for me

FJ.

sorry guys but that the crappiest welds I've seen

lol absolute bullshit 12 sec.. lol

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