Originally Posted by: wbute Did they build blue and black 5 litre at the same time? WB and VK? How do you tell them apart if they have the engine number decked off?
no...
GMH stopped painting them blue one day and started painting them black*... there was a breakpoint and bingo all were black from then on.
didn't really matter as a VH 5.0 was the same engine black in VK (until some of the hipo specials appeared... A9L, V7X etc)
If the engine number if not there, being decked... yeah a bit of a problem
unless you are expert, you cannot tell the difference between a normal VT, VA, VB, VG or VJ numbered engine,
VC coded is easy as they are RED being the A9L 'Grp A' engine but the others???
The VT numbered engine won't have the better inlet manifold (used on VA, VB VG engines) and even having an EGR
valve is no help. ALL VJ engines (auto and manual) had them but they are not on VB and VG coded 'manual' engines.
WB exhaust manifolds differed from Commodore .. but who has the original exhaust on it these days?
Ignition distributors did help when blue V8s were introduced as auto manual and 253/308s all got differing
coloured paint dots (the GMH manual tells you which belongs on what engine) but now... do you have the original dizzy?
*I have ignored those painted silver for the various series of Bedfords that were fitted with Holden V8s
(low comp with 2BBL carbs they were)
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