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Old Sep 7, 2009 | 08:49 PM
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I have only been driving around in this car for two months and i finally get a chance to open her up last night. performance was good for a bolt on auto ls1. However i think i discovered some problems.

The car had a lot of vibration at top of third and 4 (did not go WOT into 4th because it wouldnt shift) So it was around 120 130.

Pavlock told me i need to get an alumium drive shaft. What else should i look into to find the source of the vibration(s).

any input will help thanks..

mods are lid kooks borla 3.73. stock internal stock 4l60 and stock converter
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Old Sep 7, 2009 | 09:03 PM
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u-joints maybe !?!?

wouldn't the driveshaft shake/vibrate if the u-joints were bad !?!?
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Old Sep 7, 2009 | 09:15 PM
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maybe balance the wheels?
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Old Sep 7, 2009 | 09:41 PM
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my car starts to vibrate at high rpms in od but it doesnt shift into od untill 145 lol
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Old Sep 7, 2009 | 09:57 PM
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get the tires balanced first... I dont think the 6-speed driveshafts were any different and I went 140+ quite a few times in my old car without any vibrations... it just got pretty loud. haha
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Old Sep 7, 2009 | 10:59 PM
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ok. I guess it may be important to note that there were more vibrations while decreasing speed - as in foot off the gas and coasting. When i pushed the gas there were still vibrations but much less.
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I would guess balancing the wheels too. My car does that as well when I let go of the gas on like 60 - 80.
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