well i bought a driveshaft off of ebay. The guy was selling it for 169.99, custom made. I was kinda skeptical, but he had good feedback. It came 41 inches center to center, 3.5" in diameter and with 1350 spicer u-joints in back, and a spicer u-joint in front for stock trans. yoke. I liked it when i first got it, but decided to polish it. Tell me what you think???!!!!!!

 

thats awesome.

 

looks badass

 

I polished mine too, and now that I realize that I never get to see it, I wouldn't do it again. Yours looks very nice though. The next drive shaft I polish will get hung in the garage so people can see it..

 

very nice. i would polish it just for the hell of it.

 

Very nice man, its those kind of details that really set a car off, i love it

 

honsetly i wouldnt polish a driveshaft. no one will ever see it, and if they do, the rest of the underbody better be up to par as well. so i figure its kind of a waste of time. but the fact that its an aluminum drive shaft makes up for it.

 

That's pretty sweet!

 

How come I can not see it. Is it just me or what?

 

lol

 

looks sweet, i used to constantly crawl under mine and clean everything underneath...and everytime i did i got caught in rain or whatnot....so i gave up and just slammed it so no one can see underneath

 

Polished driveshafts... the ultimate in balancing! LOL

 

i polished mine before i put it on.I know nobody will see it but what the hell.

 

lol, thats kind of the approach I took in the first place

 

Think of all the wind resistance youre eliminating!

 

anybody have pics of things that they have decided to polish that may be out of the norm?

 

anybody?

 

that is sweet!!!

 

yes i polished my alum radiator and a custom air dam that i put on it and i chromed the upper supports of the struts, all the bolts for alternator, the compressor brackets and a lot more stuff

BTW right now i'm carpeting the whole interior and putting some new cloth on the seats

 

here's a pic of mine installed.

 

well since you went with an installed pic, here's one of mine

 

Very cool....would I do it? No, but hat's off to those that do!

 

well if I ever have to take mine off again (perhaps for a tranny change) I'll probably polish mine for the hell of it.

 

How did you polish it? I recently bought an alum driveshaft and have started to polish it. I started with 400 grit,then wet sanded with 1000 and then 2000 grit. It looks ok, I still have not used any polishing compound though. I'm just wondering how you got yours that shiny.

 

check out the Polishing Your Wheels sticky at the top, thats how i did my intake and Procharger parts. for upkeep i polish with Mothers Billet Metal Polish. but its like $15 for a 4oz can :|

 

i used aluminum polish, like for mag wheels, and a bench polishing wheel...i actually probably have to get back under and hit it again since my car is almost out of the paint shop.

 

Nice job on the polishing. That adds what....15 hp to the car

 

so there is alot of people that like to polish their shafts

 

I just polished it by hand. Took me about thirty minutes or so to do everything.

 

id polish mine. id put it on the car and take 4736095851320505 pictures. since id NEVER do it again lol

 

lmao +1.

 

Turns out I lied to myself. When I had the shaft out swapping in the T56, I grabbed my wheel and polished it out again

 

Nice job looks good

 

i think for those of us that love their car, we go the extra mile to make it look nice. all of it. i know i do. if i take something off the car, before it goes back on......i clean it. i would like to think of my car as a more go than show but one that would get....."man, that looks awesome." at a cruise in or show. otherwise it's just like every other camaro out there with a nice paint job.

 

I've been showing cars for years.It takes a ton of work to keep a car that clean.

 

lmao apparently!!

looks good guys, I personally wouldn't do this unless I had a ton of time into my underbody though but a big thumbs up to those of you who took the time to do this.

 

couldn't agree more. i polished mine too with mothers mag and alluminum polish.

For those of you who like to polish alluminum, i polished my sno-pro to perfection lol.

 

I found some pics when doing my T56 on an old camera... Here is my polished shaft








As you can see here, you can barely tell that it is polished... again NOT worth it!

 

Looks pretty clean under there

 

Its a Marine thing, polish everything LOL. I spend a lot of time behind my wheel, it is worth the time to me, I have put a sheet of polished aluminum at the edge of my show cars and jacked up one side so they could see the undercarrige. I just picked up an aluminum shaft Tuesday and now guess what I am doing this weekend. I decided to do a smaller piece first

 

wow that came out hella nice!!

 

I did my AC bits too, including the lines.
not the best pic

 

looks good, I think the small stuff makes it look good

 

...It must be.....You know ATTENTION to detail....

I can sit for hours and wet sand and polish....My friends don"t know how I can do it, they are constantly asking me to do their stuff....If it's aluminum it will get polished....My soon to be x-wife has a 2000 WS6 and I did all the A/C lines (the cylinder thing), I also did the valve covers and the thermostat housing....

here's a few pics....i don't have pics of te LS1 valve covers sorry!!!!

This is a intercooler I did for a friend...it was scratched and gouged really bad...

 

here's the LS1 t-stat housing...

 

This is my mallory Fuel press. reg......I still have more to do....
(like my wheels) they are in desperate need.....