Aluminum drive shaft! Its from a 4th gen LS1 car!

 

Got some Mothers & started to polish & look what was under the plain exterior...

 

Here is the final product's shine!

 

can you tell me exactly how to use mothers... i got it... having difficulties with it...

it says you rub it on, then rub it off with another cloth?

 

Here is another little thing i got & painted...

 

Beautiful piece redraif. I can't wait to see the underside of that 82 with all paint matched/polished equipment. will be a site to see for sure

 

One more toy! 3.73 disc brake rear. Will be painted red and installed in teh next few weeks!

 

Rotors are even in good shape. Get them turned and I will ready to roll!

 

Get a cloth, old t shirt material works best. get a bit on teh rag and rub your target. You have to rub for a bit. The cloth with start to get black in the area where the polish is. This means its doing its job! You may need a few applications to get it as shiney as you would like. Once it dries i just get a soft terry cloth towel and buff teh residue off and you are left with much shine! The better quality teh metal you are polishing teh better result you will see. Some aluminums are porus and do not polish well. I got lucky on teh drive shaft. The AC canister polished up nice too. It took much more work. The drive shaft took about a 1/2 hour!

 

This all is still for RAIF. But I'm collecting similar things for the 82. We are trying to get RAIF to run a bit stronger, hence the better gear ratio...Hawks had a drive shaft, so I thought why not, we were there for the rear end anyway!

 

I noticed with that mother's metal polish, the longer you let it dry, the harder it is to buff it out. I usually polish it like said above until the cloth turns black, then right after, wipe it down with a cotton towel. I also noticed that if you don't give it time to dry, you get a better shine out of it. Plus, on the directions, it doesn't even say to let it sit and dry, so there you go. -89IRO

 

Good to note...I will remember that!

 

Nice find.

 

nice finds!

 

It just keeps getting better and better, very nice find!

 

:sillylol: :sillylol: :sillylol:

 

nice.......yep that mothers is nice....i use that on my rims

 

i picked up a disc brake rear for $50! i have no idea what kind of gear ratio it has. my dad and i needed the axle out of it for his car cause we broke an axle off the line at Atlanta Dragway. There was a lady that had a whole rearend and she didn't need it cause she had just picked up a dana44 for her car. so we bought it off her for $50! the rearend will get good gears if it has crappy ones and i will probably put some mosier custom axles and c=clip elminators in that beast before i put it in my 89. my dad got a 9inch for his car with 33spline axles so, needless to say, he won't be using th 7.5 much longer

 

Will all the fourth gen aluminum drive shafts work on our third gens? Is there any difference? I need driveshaft 101. thanks......

 

Aluminum driveshafts are much lighter, meaning less running weight in your driveline.

Has anyone ever experienced with carbon fiber drive shafts that they offer for cars now?

 

Thanks Dan, I know what there benefits are, now I'm trying to find out what will work and what doesn't on a 350 with a 700r4 trans and a fourth gen disc rear, which is what I will be set up with. Would I need a stock aluminum driveshaft from a third gen or would a fourth gen work????.........

 

to answer ur question all drive shafts from 82-02 are interchangable

 

what about people who have swapped in th350 trannys?