I'v had a set of holden standard extractors(the small ones that look like a bunch of bannanas) and should bolt directly onto the old Y peice, rattelling around in the back of the car for 12 months now and decided to get them fitted. Now according to the muffler shop, they wont fit. He tells me that there are manual and automatic extractors??, and they dont line up with the Y peice, and i have the wrong ones. He then proceeded to upsell me into some $700 setup. I told him to forget it. Now is that right, that would mean that vr's also have 2 different types of cast iron headers too.
no it's only extractors. Although some are universal...(auto and manual) I'm sure if you speak to a welder you could sort something out...
agreed... there are "auto" and "manual" setup extractors, as the bends are slightly different... but ultimately... its a pipe... and pipes can be bend/modified/welded to suit. the reason for the "auto" and "manual" preformed shape, is for straight bolt on with no mods required. but you should be able to get yours done cheaply enough.
I figure you are talking about the factory VN 5 litre (and later HSV headers). I used to have them on my VP and they do indeed have a different Y pipe. But there is no seperate manual and auto versions. I just cut and welded my cast headers Y pipe to suit them, I must admit it took me awhile (longer than I would be willing to pay the zoorst man 60 bucks an hour ) but I was crawling around on the ground and undoing it and running back to the welder each time it didn't fit (for about 10 times ). The good news is there was no timeable increase in the cars pace with the VN style pipes on the car, the cast headers are every bit as good if not better so don't worry about it. I've allready done the testing on this and allready wasted my time so you don't have to
Cheers foamy and everyone else. Anywayz in that case f/s crappy standard auto extractors w.t.b. Good extractors.
