21 replies to this topic

[A9X]

Well first you would need to talk, INSTEAD OF SHOUTING.

You could post the engine number and casting marks up here, including the head numbers and marks, that would give you a good start.

Didn't just buy it off ebay did you ?

Welby

[GML-31]

you sure its not a VT prefix which would make it a VK black motor with B Cast heads
If it is WT that is a WB statesman block 1980 era

Edited by GML-31, 28 May 2007 - 05:21 PM.

[REDA9X]

sounds like what you have there is a Brock WB Magnum engine

[RedTaxi]

Back from the dead after 12 years!

[Shiney005]

The B was done the same way as the X on the side of early super duper flux capacitor titanium blocks.  There are later blocks with an X stamped into the mould, but these are usually Turbo bolt pattern for commercial applications.

Edited by Shiney005, 26 September 2019 - 07:15 PM.

[yel327]

^^Source Laurie? Not something I have ever seen in the flesh or in literature. I’ve seen X’s scratched into the green sand on trial ADR27A V8 heads used in some HJ a few months prior to 6/76 but never on blocks. Do you mean the early XT5 blocks in late 70’s Bedford?

[Shiney005]

Sorry Byron, I must have missed this somehow.  Info came from Smitty over at Aussie V8s who worked in the foundry. I have heard that the Bedford motors have them, but they would be classed as a commercial motor, the same as the engines bought new from Holden for the N.S.W. Railways scarifying machines and whoever was building cement agitators back then. I have seen a QR block with one, but the one pictured below is December 1976 308, which I would have thought would be a bit late for Bedford?  (This is only people talking though. No proof.)

 

 Block. Small X. Dec 1976 Turbo block.JPG   43.55K   12 downloads

Edited by Shiney005, 07 October 2019 - 03:48 PM.

[piquet]

I had a set of B cast cylinder heads for my L34. I bought them at a garage sale of the HDT when they were in North Melbourne.
They were big valve heads similar to L34 but were fitted to the VB/VC HDT Brock Commodores.
They were a pollution head so my original L34 inlet manifold would not fit and required finding the correct inlet manifold, which I did by going back to the HDT.

[yel327]

Sorry Byron, I must have missed this somehow. Info came from Smitty over at Aussie V8s who worked in the foundry. I have heard that the Bedford motors have them, but they would be classed as a commercial motor, the same as the engines bought new from Holden for the N.S.W. Railways scarifying machines and whoever was building cement agitators back then. I have seen a QR block with one, but the one pictured below is December 1976 308, which I would have thought would be a bit late for Bedford? (This is only people talking though. No proof.)

Block. Small X. Dec 1976 Turbo block.JPG

Too early for Bedford. 4.2 and 5.0L weren’t fitted to Bedford until much later, like late 1978 into 1979 to replace Chevrolet 250 and 292 when they no longer complied with ADR’s (350 replaced 292 in C20/30 about the same time). These low comp 4.2 and 5.0L Bedford were the first XT5 V8’s, with the blue motor heads, intake, HEI dizzy etc.

[yel327]

I had a set of B cast cylinder heads for my L34. I bought them at a garage sale of the HDT when they were in North Melbourne.
They were big valve heads similar to L34 but were fitted to the VB/VC HDT Brock Commodores.
They were a pollution head so my original L34 inlet manifold would not fit and required finding the correct inlet manifold, which I did by going back to the HDT.

Not VB, only some VC-VK HDT engines, and also fitted to 1000’s of V5H manual Commodores for GroupA homologation. These were as you say similar to L34 engines, just had a bigger cam than L34 but lower compression.

[Shiney005]

I didn't realise just how long the TK Bedford was around for. 27 years is a long time for one model.

[Rockoz]

My RFS Brigade had a 308 powered Bedford $wd.

From memory it was a 1980 model.

Other council areas with a bit more coin swapped the 308s for Isuzu diesels,

They were a tough truck.

 

Cheers  

 

Rob