I took my 82 Z out for a spin today down Main St. A 03 Cobra pulls beside me and raves his engine. I let him take off, then I push the pedal to the floor. I feel my car jerk bigtime, pull to the side of the road and my aluminum driveshaft was bent. It will be a while before I get my car driveable again but until then I will keep everyone posted on how its coming.

my car has approx. 1100 hp and 1000 ft lbs./tq.

What would be a stronger driveshaft?

 

First of all, how the f*** did you get that much power?
Seconfly, check out spohns site, he has some heavy duty driveshafts. An aluminum DS is only rated to 450HP I believe.

 

Holy Chit! ummm first, don't use aluminium drive shafts for that much.. second, post your mods hehehe

 

Jesss I would want a 6" diameter drive shaft if it were aluminium with that kind of power!

It's hard to beat an aftermarket steel one when it comes to strengh/cost.

How the hell do you keep the U-joints from exploding???

Ron

 

Yeah Right! Smells like BS to me.

 

Was thinking the same thing...

So how did you wedge a 502 in that F-Body? (2:1 HP/CIN, that must of cost a small fortune)
What kind of transmission are you running?


Ron

 

post pics of the bent/twisted shaft

 

First of all is a 70 Chevelle SS LS6 454 bored to 468. Second its blown w/ a Hampton 8-71 BLower. Borla Drag Headers, 85% engine is stainless steel, undercarriage is highly polished chrome, dual 750 Demon carbs, lunati cam, and NOS Pro Fogger system. Still about another 10000000000000 things to list, but don't have time.

Colby

 

funny i've been around cars and drag racing most of my life and i don't think i've ever saw a stainless steel engine, or even one that was 85% stainless. besides not rusting and being hard to paint what's the big advantage of using stainless? my guess is you had a block, heads, crank custom machined out of a chunk of 308 right? i've never had a LS6 but i've seen a few and drove one once or twice and i was thinking they were regular old gm run of the mill cast iron. i'd think the block would account for at least half of you engine so wouldn't it be stainless too? i'm so confussed.

 

Aren't we alll!!!!

 

You have this thing on the STREET? Sounds like you need a 50mm gun barrel for a drive shaft. With all that high-tech stuff you claim you missed the DS issue. Does it pass emissions?

 

undercarriage is highly polished chrome



Wow, that's gotta be good for 350-375rwhp!!! especially since it's the "highly polished" version!!

 

Where are you from in Oklahoma? I want to personally verify this. I'll have my 500 HP(ya, I know it's lame to you ) Formula ready to break in by saturday. I need to put miles on it.

 

has more than one person here raised the flag, i think so

 

not a doubt in my mind...total

this guy has to be trying to start a flame!!

 

Yea, it magicly turned from an '82 Z to '70 Chevelle with a little pressure...

hmmmm -- I have to get me a set of those stainless steel cylinder heads !!!! Who makes those ???


Ron

 

Maybe if he had a stainless driveshaft it wouldn't have bent! Maybe some of that polished stainless includes a crank, rods and pistons.

I wonder what the trans is made out of, sterling silver.

 

I need to get my highly polished chrome boots on, this **** is deep!

Maybe that stainless ****er of his is clogged!

 

damn this is some good stuff, i bet he doesn't come back to reply.

 

i've thought about this a bit more and decided to raise the flag a bit higher. having been around alot of drag cars and a lot of drive line failures i've seen my share of broken drive shafts and have never seen one bend. if they start to go (bend, deflect whatever you want to call it) they just keep right on going and twist untill they seperate. the driver never has time to react in time to mash the clutch back in, or lift the loud pedal to save the parts.

 

ede your right that thing would of just ripped in two. Especially with that 1000 some odd HP! Usaully if the driveshaft has a ding/dent in it that becomes the weak spot and under abuse it will just twist apart near the dent.

 

Dual 750 Demons.......... Hmmmmmmm.........

 

i think u need a diamond drive shaft.......

 

Thats not to mention.... Just cruising on the street He's Not gonna have Heated his slicks ( If he is even Running slicks ) To get the Kinda traction w/ that sorta power to prevent anything short of a Smoke show when that 1100 ft/lbs went to the pavement.

To break/bend the driveshaft, the Tires gotta Hook )

 

let me put my boots on. i'm almost positive a ls6 block will not handle that much power. but i have a similar story i have a factory moded rear wheel drive quad turbo vtec bored .120 over thats made out of carbon fiber and i pulled up to a AA top fuel drag car and he started to rev his junk then the light turned green and i blew him away i was about 6 cars ahead of him i'm sure glad i bought that non-fuctional 5 inch tach. what a idiot he never had a clue

 

damn this is too good to let sink to the bottom of the page isn't it? and aren't we all waiting for his reply, or explaination?

 

The same thing happend to me in my uncles tempo!

 

lmfao wtf!!! haha this is some funny stuff. I wanna see the driveshaft. I never even heard of a stainless steel engine. Maybe aluminum but not stainless. haha a $5000 block haha

 

a stainless steel block would be so expensive and weigh more than a cast block stainless is some heavy steel.

 

ok i've had a lot of fun with this thread but i'm going to stop replying and let it slide to the bottom of the page.

 

I dont think its safe to step on the gaz of a 1000 hp car
on the street. Your U joints would be the first to brake
before the driveshaft.

 

hey guys check this out hes 17, thats right when i was 17 i could barely afford gas, how does a 17 year old afford a 1,000 hp car?????????? i finally get to raise it.......

 

You probably had low air pressure in the driveshaft. There's a fitting at the rear joint where you can check the pressure. If it's below 120 psi you need to fill it up.

 

Ede, I have seen a twisted/kinked driveshaft.
A kid in auto mechanics back in skool did a neutral slam in his dad Chevelle, it looked like a pretzel, of course, he tried to tell his dad that he was just driving normal.

 

Funny how the car went from an 82 Z to a Chevelle and how convienient that it happened on Main St. too. With an engine that big making that much HP wouldn't the lbs/tq be greater than the HP? I have to throw up the too.

 

That would be the stainless steel causing the funky torque curve.

You know this is a true story, I was out looking at pressure cookers, and there was basicly two types; a stainless steel & aluminum. Well thinking back to this thread, considering that 1000HP motors need to be made out of stainless steel - I jumped on it.

Ron ---Proud owner of a stainless steel pressure cooker!!!!!!!

 

You all need to go back and read his second post again. He mearly stated that the engine was out of a........

And the barney bolt on stuff was made of stainless........

But I think he also forgot to tell you that it has a pressurized cabin and on-board O2.

Kinda funny though, there a guy in San Diego with a 84Z28, a blown big block, T400, 9" and so fourth and I know he makes more than 1200Hp.....but with that much power he couldnt hook it up to save his @ss....so I dont understand how he could really twist a shaft.?!! Wrong place for an alloy shaft. Might want to try a carbonfiber shaft.

You beat him up pretty bad though

Maybe it bent the last time he landed.....

 

read some of this guys past post! he spends the majority of his time in the car audio forum. and he doesn't know crap about cars.. has posted this exact same post in the exhaust forum (with the exception of stating what kind of car he is driving and how much h.p.) and has like two or three other totaly post.. which were proven to be obvious by the other people who read those... i doubt this guy even owns a car...

 

okiedokie...............I'm in

I just did a search on all of his posts.......LOL.........HE'S all about numbers!!!

 

 

Sell that crap, and get a Tercel :lala: :lala: :lala: :lala: :lala: :lala:

 

ok i know my comprehension skills aren't what they ought to be but i don't see where he says "the engine is out of" he says, or implies it IS a '70 chevelle and that 85% of the engine IS stainless steel, but i did sort of think he may have meant the little silly add on stuff was stainless and not the block or heads, but then to make up the 85% of the engine to be stainless the block, or at least the heads would have to be stainless. doesn't really matter since we all know he's some dumbass kid that doesn't have a clue or ***** enough to come back here and reply.

 

True, true......

 

Oh.... he's from Oklahoma. 'nough said.

 

LMFAO!! This thread has made it's way into the Cascade Crew's own site! We are all laughing at the kid making us all pull out our hip waders!! Thanks for the laughs Man of Stainless Steel!

 

gibby post a link to your site, i've never saw it, actually never heard of it, thanks

 

ede, the link is www.cascadecrew.org

It's mostly the pacific northwest people and a few extras. I co-moderate the general forum with 85ROCZLADY1

 

I couldnt find the thread on the site, where is it?

Never mind....found it.........

 

Hmmmm..... time for some more fun.

Well check dis out:

I gots me a 97 K1500 Z71 L31 350 bored to 355........ In my GTA that is.... :lala: :lala:

Sup now!!!!......

 

i couldn't find it either