carbon fiber driveshaft
 

well I was looking at drive shaft options I like the idea of a carbon fiber drive shaft but I know little about the subject would it be practical for street use?

I would think prohibitively expensive and it's won't get you any noticable gains. I don't think you'll be able to find one that works, so it'll have to be custom made.

well my goal is to get as much of the svxs power to the wheels I can. I was mainly concerned with how the carbon fiber drive shaft would hold up and if it would be a sound investment. I can get one made for around 1k.

dumb, dumb, dumb.... Seriously. For $1k I could get an all aluminum one made and get a stage 2 v7...

Well how light are the aluminum drive shafts because the carbon fiber ones are 6 pounds?

6lbs for what car? Because I can guarantee there isn't one made for the SVX.

Yes I know that is why it would have to be custom which runs just around 1k.

What sicksubie is suggesting is you can get better bang for your buck elseware.

I understand but what im trying to do is get a more efficient drive line transmission, drive shaft, axels, wheels, etc. the svx doesn't have bad power output it just is losing the power on the way to the wheels. I mean the aluminum drive shaft is not a bad idea but how much heavier would it be?

Was looking for a company that can make a custom carbon fiber driveshaft, just for the hell of it. I did find an interesting article.

http://www.stangpro.com/html/articles/driveshaft.htm


Also, does someone have a driveshaft hanging around that they can weigh? I mean, just for data purposes. Not that I am thinking of upgrading the driveshaft or anything. :p

Nice website thanks a lot I thought there would be a noticeable gain and the carbon fiber drive shafts i was looking at are a little over 6 lbs I might even see better gains. The only thing I'm really concerned about is durability.

I seem to remember a company in Tampa that did them (CF) custom, pretty easy to do actually, for about the same cost as a stock replacement. They also have removable (replaceble) U joints, unlike our pressed on joints. I was considering it, but only when replacement of the stock unit was necessary.

Well, no need to continue to talk about it. All someone has to do is post up a company that makes them, someone contact them, someone get one made up (if they want to and/or find it beneficial) and report back their findings. :)

As for durability, just keep your stock one. If it works out, great. If not, put your stockers back on.

I was thinking about upgrading when i did the 5spd swap.

I had a carbon fiber drive shaft on my '92 Suburban. It was sweeeet, only weighed 10 pounds, a steel shaft weighs 30+.