Aluminum or HD steel driveshaft?
06-10-2005, 03:33 PM
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Aluminum or HD steel driveshaft? If I decide to get a new/better shaft, which do u guys recommend, aluminum or steel. Its an all bolt on heads/cam with a high stall with a pretty hard STR (Ill prolly just run dr's on it); or, should I just hope the stock one fits and leave it in (will it be strong enough?).
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06-10-2005, 05:06 PM
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i have one of those; but will the stock driveshaft hold up for my car's power on a pretty hard hitting converter (high 11's on dr's); if it will, I can save some needed money
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Don't cheap out,I did and regret it.When running low 12's I launched at 4K and scattered my local built driveshaft,the "HD u-joints" they installed split in half and destroyed my forged 12 bolt yolk,brand new adjustable edelbrock T/A [installed the night before]and bent some teeth on the ring gear.The spohn/BMR or a sponsor driveshaft is a complete setup with true HD joints/balanced shaft and forged trans yolk.Seems you have your mind made up anyway but I say steel.
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06-11-2005, 08:42 AM
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I wanted something like a Spohn Extreme, or a Denny's nitrous shaft. But I needed on in a hurry, broke my stocker 2 days before a big race. Ended up getting an LPE 3.5" Aluminum for Something like $269. I was worried @ first, but with many, many, many 6K+ RPM dumps on slicks with it & some pretty good 60's out of it, the lingenfelter one seems just fine for now.
