wagon vs sedan v8 tailshaft

[aussie_macca]

okie dokie, before anyone says "this has been covered before, do a search"...i have...lots

looking a putting an 8 into the vlt and have found a donor car, but its a wagon and the turbz is a sedan. Now the issue is ive searched the bloody net and called pretty much every wreckers within 150km and CANT find a tailshaft for a vl v8 sedan.

Now in the searches ive done there are tonnes of people saying that they are currently running wagon tail shafts in their vl sedans, and that when they sat the sedan/wagon shafts side by side there was zero difference, but there's equally as many people saying no it def wont fit. I've also been looking on various sites and see that the wheel base between for the sedan/wagon is identicle, just not sure how reliable specifications are on old school sites.

Im wondering if anyone here is currently using a wags tail shaft in a sedan or if anyone has actually tried it and failed. Any definate answers with any sort of experience would be very very much appreciated. cheers.

[Not_An_Abba_Fan]

The tail shaft is the same length, but the yoke may be different where it goes into the gearbox. You could use the front half of the wagon shaft and the rear of the sedan.

[aussie_macca]

yeah cheers for the prompt response, but i think the problem with that would be that id still need at least the rear half of a sedan tailshaft for an automatic v8? the v8s in a vl wagon automatic and the car that the donks going in is a vlt sedan 5spd.

[jatsvl]

vl v8 sedan and wagon automatic tailshaft EXACTLY THE SAME.

what you will find is most people are talking about later models E.G. vn > vz where the sedan and wagons were built on different length platforms all commodores before the vn were on the same length platform so they used the same length tailshaft, only difference is auto, manual and 6cyl, 8cyl.