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Is there any difference between the first of the 80 series v8 petrols
(98 model) and the current ones?

the 80 series didnt come in a V8 petrol

just a 6 cylinder 4.5L was the biggest available from my memory?

bruiser wrote:Is there any difference between the first of the 80 series v8 petrols
(98 model) and the current ones?

AFAIK a 98 model would be a 100 series. It's a 2UZ-FE i think - unsure if there have been any substantial changes over the years.

-Stu

Sorry guys. meant 100 series.
Mate just got a 98 model V8 100 series and she is chewing a lot more fuel then our current model ones at work.
Just wondering if they had refined the engine over the pas 9 years.

Wasn't there an early V8 hundred? If my memory is correct they took them off the market for a few years because of fuel usage being one problem. I could be very wrong here

there was the gxv 100 series that came with ifs. in 98. it didn't last long but i'm not sure why it was disbanded?

my guess would be the 1st lot of v8's that came out in 98 in the GXV were 4 speed autos, then the second lot in 02 or 03 had 5 speed autos

I believe that they were 4 speeds up till 2002 or there-a-bouts.

the v8 came out in 1998 in the gxv it was 4 speed auto only, then in 2000 i think when the turbo diesel came out they stopped the v8 all together. then in 02 when they dropped the live axle and 6 cyclinder petrol they brought the v8 back and was avaliable in the GXL and sahara.

as far as i know there was no changes to the motor has the same amount of power. just there gearbox was different. which the new 5speed would be better on fuel.

have it serviced, tuned and get the injectors done and the computer looked at...