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Hello everyone, new here and i must say what an excellent site this is. Today i looked at a vk i am thinking of saving it is a 10/1985 build 5L 4 speed but on the compliance plate it states the engine as xv7? Would anyone here be able to shed any light on this for me please as i thought it should be L31. Also the engine number is VG554xxxx.
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V7X is a 304 manual late 1985. L31 is a 308. VG is the correct prefix for V7X.
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Thanks for that HK.Are they anything special? Would you happen to know what KWs they are?
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Some of them for highway patrol had HDT engines in them. Others like one a friend of mine used to own didnt have the B cast heads but had the HDT inlet, air cleaner and windage tray.
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The VG prefix V7X engines are pretty good, but are a let-down in comparison to the VB prefix 304 manuals that preceded them (5000 were built, and they were effectively a HDT SS engine)
By the time yours was built, the V7X/VG got the good rods, 955 (like the Brock) inlet manifold, and other good bits - but they missed out on the big valve heads.
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That would explain my mates engine. I have the heads, inlet and air cleaner here, the carb went onto a SBC in an MQ Patrol. He changed the heads to red pollution heads and KC25308 manifold so he could fit L34 valves with hardened seats.
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Thanks very much fellas for the info, i reckon i will get the old girl much to parliments disgust lol. I also have an old vh i am curios about. It is a 5L sl with th350 and a 9 inch but the speedo has lots of markings has an sl/e dome light extra deep console ashtrays in all 4 doors? and you can see where there was once an ariel on the back right hand guard. Its a 6/83 model VH8VK69 tag on rad support is 8K69TC L597776H vin is CVHO44531A. L31 M40 GU4.Old cop car do ya think? I dont seem to recall ever seeing V8 VHs as cop cars back then in new south and believe me i saw a few lol.
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the extra incruments in the speedo suggests that its a police car speedo
i have a mate with a HQ ex police car and it has the extra incruments and goes to 130mph
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The fact its an SL (K69) and a 5L (T) means it can only be an SS or a Police car.
Obviously its not an SS.... (the model code reads different for an SS).
All hose items you mentioned are fitted to police cars. I had one too, a white VH, it was manual, and had an oil cooler as well. It was an ex-SA HWP car, and still had the multicore cable running up the A-pillar, with the excess coiled up above the drivers headlining.
L31, M40 & GU4 are 5L, trimatic & 3.08:1 diff, so its obviously seen some changes since it served on the force.
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