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The Skid Factory's budget Fairlane gets a costly final repair

Woody and Westy finish the Crossflow swap, take the Compact cruising and reconsider its future in the shed.

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How Far Can $250 REALLY Get You? Budget Crossfllow Fairlane Build (EP5)

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0:00Woody recaps the Crossflow swap and the gearbox slipping in forward gears.
3:00The crew removes the failing transmission and installs its marketplace replacement.
5:38Cleaning and polishing give way to another mechanical setback: the timing chain has jumped teeth.
11:13New timing components and replacement pushrods go in before engine reassembly.
11:33Woody and Westy take the Fairlane onto the highway.
14:30Woody explains his decision about the Fairlane's future.

The budget didn't survive. A slipping gearbox and a badly stretched timing chain give The Skid Factory's Fairlane project a more expensive farewell than Woody and Westy had hoped.

Their only upload this week, "How Far Can $250 REALLY Get You? Budget Crossfllow Fairlane Build (EP5)", follows the last workshop hurdles before the highway test. A replacement BorgWarner transmission gets fitted, but polishing the bodywork doesn't mean the mechanical surprises are over. The timing chain jumps teeth, leaving the crew replacing the chain, sprockets and bent pushrods before the engine can go back together.

Woody sums up the budget problem neatly: "I'm going to spend more on a timing chain kit than I've got done on the whole conversion."

The reward is a highway drive with Westy in the left-hand-drive cruiser Woody imported from Arizona. There is also a decision: the earlier turbo Coyote plan is being dropped, and Woody intends to sell the Fairlane to help fund other builds. Beneath the episode, viewers make the case for keeping it as a shop car, propose other homes for a Coyote and ask for more cheap projects. One even mounts a technical defence of the budget, treating the unexpected timing-chain work as a separate expense.

The finale reached roughly 30,000 views before its first day was over and accounts for almost all the channel's current daily viewing. Earlier Fairlane episodes are its next most active uploads, though at a much gentler pace. Daily views are now nearly five times their usual level, while subscribers were unchanged over the week.

Among similarly sized motoring channels, The Daily Downshift and MattieFlips had much larger weekly audiences. The Skid Factory's week was smaller, but its strongest attention stayed firmly on the same backyard question: how much cruiser can a cheap Crossflow conversion deliver?

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What viewers say

This has been a great series, low budget brings out ingenuity and different challenges which is refreshing.
@ianhighley-zo3esSee it on YouTube
Went to get some series 2 Landrover control arms via market place.....came away with a XJ Jaguar to swap the engine into said Landrover.
@Gareth.Joyce1980See it on YouTube
Definitely keep it. It looks like a good cruiser
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Coyote in a Cortina
@BenKiehne85HorseWorkshopSee it on YouTube
Def keen to see more budget projects.
@boydw1See it on YouTube
Love this sort of content, this is a way cool cruiser and shows off great backyard engineering.
@andrewhull3808See it on YouTube
I think a '67 Cougar with a Barra would be really cool.
@dB_944See it on YouTube
This series was awesomo! Keep the cheap builds coming, more engines getting started on the floor by westy please 🐲
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