VL 5L Police Cranks?

[lil_oneblue]

Have a crank from a 5L VL Calais ex police car. Needs a grind but otherwise is good.

are the VL 5L ones diferent to the older 5L's. is there anything special if its a police one?

cheers
jason

[macca33]

I believe that the VK-era 308/304 engines may have had better (large-valve) heads and different cranks than the stock 5l V8s of the time, but I don't think the VLs were different than all VL V8 Commodores.

There will be resources on the internet that explain the differences, just try a Google search for VL BT1 perhaps.

Cheers,

Macca

[greenfoam]

Not sure if the cranks are much different but the VL's ran the A9L engine which is pretty much a copy of the earlier L34, better/stronger than the normal early 308s, it would be the second best 304/8 to start with behind the injected motor

[vz 914]

Did'nt know the police ever ran calais VLs ???

The A9L was unique to VL Group A Brock as far as iam aware.

[lil_oneblue]

ah stuffed if i know.

I got a crank with a heap of holden parts from a old holden dealership i cleaned out. it has a tag on it saying neeeds grind and that it came from a 5L VL Calais Police....

[vlv8vic]

i dont even know! happy to sell you a car to go with your crank though!

[Benboy]

Police 8's were stock standard straight off the production line.

[lil_oneblue]

so a "police crank" is no diferent to any other standard v8 vl crank?

[GMHVLCT]

no police crank its all bull**** mate they would be all the same

[ucwepn]

i read/saw something that said brock had imput on the spec of the bt1 v8's i think its on the hdt dvd lol i watch it later and post back hehe.