After market Drive shaft

Post by **240nismo** » Tue May 27, 2003 9:32 pm

Does anybody know where i can get an aftermarket lightweight (carbon or aluminum) drive shaft??? or would i have to get somebody to make me one?

Post by **Nismo1182** » Tue May 27, 2003 9:32 pm

http://www.enjukuracing.com

Post by **SPIRO** » Tue May 27, 2003 9:32 pm

http://www.acpt.com/ carbon fiber driveshaft, $900.00 and two weeks to make

Post by **Evil98Silvia** » Tue May 27, 2003 9:32 pm

1000 bucks for a drive shaft seems a LITTLE TO expensive, lol. Id say enjuku's aluminum is the way to go. Would be cool to say to a Z owner that you have a carbon fiber drive shaft also. :ylsuper

Robbie

Post by **silviaNE** » Tue May 27, 2003 9:32 pm

ditto that, though the carbon one would have some major nerd tech points. I think you can use the factory support as a nhra saftey device then.

Post by **240nismo** » Tue May 27, 2003 9:32 pm

i've made surfboards my whole life, so i know a thing or two about custom resin & cloth...im gonna try to make a carbon fiber one, but if i attatch it and it breaks, that won't hurt anything will it???

Post by **lessthanjakejohn** » Tue May 27, 2003 9:32 pm

you would have something flying under your car with one end still attached waiting to destroy anything in its path

Post by **JJ240** » Tue May 27, 2003 9:32 pm

Thats the beauty of carbon fiber driveshafts. They snap and basically disintigrate when they smack the bottom of your car. Much safer than conventional metal driveshafts when they snap.

Post by **team23rulz** » Tue May 27, 2003 9:32 pm

yeah...you hear almost a thousand dollars beat itself to its own death...if I had the money, I would get the Carbon Fiber drive shaft...nothing like being lite...

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Post by **DAEDALUS** » Tue May 27, 2003 9:32 pm

How much does a driveshaft weigh? It's long but narrow. If you don't already have the lightest wheels reasonable for your car/budget, you might get better performance increases by putting your driveshaft fund toward some new wheels. Moment of inertia is proportional to the square of radius, so a 15" wheel has 25x the moment of inertia of a 3" shaft of the same mass (uniform weight distribution). Removing 1lb from each wheel has much more of an impact on acceleration than removing, say, 4 lbs of gas. And less chance of breaking new wheels than a CFRP driveshaft IMO.

Post by **Aries** » Tue May 27, 2003 9:32 pm

my CF drive shaft weighs 33lbs

Post by **Evil98Silvia** » Tue May 27, 2003 9:32 pm

How much did you pay for your CF drive shaft ARIES?

Robbie

Post by **team23rulz** » Tue May 27, 2003 9:32 pm

thats a custom built drive shaft to handle the power of the LT1 and to fit the Chevy transmission...am i right?

Post by **Evil98Silvia** » Tue May 27, 2003 9:32 pm

Whos got a ******* LT1? I hope noone here. Its not a nissan if you have chevy power, then you cant even sport nissan power cause you dont have it. I have to admit to hear a v8 rumble in a 240 would be tight. My truck screams though, my f250 that is.

Robbie

Post by **TomsMR2** » Tue May 27, 2003 9:32 pm

sport nissan power? WTF? i thought racing was about going fast.. the LT1 goes fast. whats the problem here?

Post by **Exar-Kun** » Tue May 27, 2003 9:32 pm

I just put in the enjuku racing peice, very nice. Only problem was the transmission sheild thingy that sticks outa the back around the driveshaft in the transmission had to be taken out, nothing major by any means. Feels much like installing a lighter flywheel, shifting becomes a bit easier too.-chet

Post by **Aries** » Tue May 27, 2003 9:32 pm

my drive shaft was custom built for $1900You can get one done to stock length for about $750

Post by **Evil98Silvia** » Tue May 27, 2003 9:32 pm

TomsMR2 wrote:sport nissan power? WTF? i thought racing was about going fast.. the LT1 goes fast. whats the problem here?

YEA, I said sport nissan power. Racing is about going fast. I just think if you buy a car, keep it in its own league. I hate when I see civics with my front end, it pisses me off, or this one accord with R34 taillights and SKYLINE plates. HA

Robbie

Post by **plastik240se** » Tue May 27, 2003 9:32 pm

Evil98Silvia wrote:YEA, I said sport nissan power. Racing is about going fast. I just think if you buy a car, keep it in its own league. I hate when I see civics with my front end, it pisses me off, or this one accord with R34 taillights and SKYLINE plates. HA

Robbie

OH you have no idea how pissed i get, those honda boys will change around their cars to look anything but the original car. if its not the looks its under the engine, GAAH i dont want to even go there.I need to go break somthing, but i agree with evil.

Post by **Evil98Silvia** » Tue May 27, 2003 9:32 pm

THANKYOU! Just the other day I saw a SR20DET in a miata....I wanted to shoot myself! But then I saw a Red S13 with a front mount intercooler driving on franconia. Black dude was driving, WHO ARE YOU!? I wanna see your car upclose if your reading this! lol. Then I saw about 20 civics and 20 tegs with mugen stickers, lol. If they buy a honda, they say " yo its tight dawg, check out them neon lights, yea man,off the hizzle, its got 115hp man and 20 pounds of torque, ill take anything, i just need those mugen stickers and neon blue squirters on the hood, and also some SKYLINE LIGHTS, extra HP man." AH!

f*** with fake cars :biggun:

Robbie

Post by **plastik240se** » Tue May 27, 2003 9:32 pm

you forgot the japanise letters on the shoulder pad for the seat belt that adds 5hp for "powerd by honda" and 5.4hp for "mugen"

A miata with a sr? now that is just wronge. he should have gone with the chevy 305 v8 conversion, then he could step on the gas and make it do a back flip.

this lil honda go to the market, this lil honda STAYED HOME, this lil honda had nitrious, this lil honda went BOOM!

Post by **plastik240se** » Tue May 27, 2003 9:32 pm

sorry got alil off subject there. i would love to start sheding weight in my car but i hate not having a mechanic over here that i cant trust to do this stuff. im all thumbs when it comes to car work. but a carbon driveshaft would be a good way to go.

Post by **Evil98Silvia** » Tue May 27, 2003 9:32 pm

plastik240se wrote:you forgot the japanise letters on the shoulder pad for the seat belt that adds 5hp for "powerd by honda" and 5.4hp for "mugen"

A miata with a sr? now that is just wronge. he should have gone with the chevy 305 v8 conversion, then he could step on the gas and make it do a back flip.

this lil honda go to the market, this lil honda STAYED HOME, this lil honda had nitrious, this lil honda went BOOM!

Good one. It is about going fast dont get me wrong. But fast with your OWN S***!!!!!!

Robbie

Post by **Evil98Silvia** » Tue May 27, 2003 9:32 pm

plastik240se wrote:sorry got alil off subject there. i would love to start sheding weight in my car but i hate not having a mechanic over here that i cant trust to do this stuff. im all thumbs when it comes to car work. but a carbon driveshaft would be a good way to go.

Yea but 1000 bucks for a few pounds? How bout the junk in the truck you can take out. Scrape the tar from under your carpet, believe it or not but there is like 20 to 30 pounds of it! Back seats? Cant use them anyway, just have someone fab a peice of plastic to cover up all the metal to make it look good. Carbon fiber hood, my hood weighs more than a 85 caprice hood. If you drive a honda drain all your fluids out, oil, transmission fluid, brake fluids and such and watch your car fly!, new seats. I put the sparco REVS in my boys nsx and saved him 45 pounds.

Robbie

Post by **90drifter** » Tue May 27, 2003 9:32 pm

i wonder will the enjuku driveshaft work for the ka or not

Post by **Evil98Silvia** » Tue May 27, 2003 9:32 pm

90drifter wrote:i wonder will the enjuku driveshaft work for the ka or not

Ummmmmm.......Why wouldnt it? If you asking if it fits on the SR and KA powered 240, then yes it will, they use the same type of drive shaft.

Robbie

Post by **Exar-Kun** » Tue May 27, 2003 9:32 pm

He oviously didnt read my reply. Try reading posts before "wondering". Mine fit fine, with a KA, and ken(enjuku racing d00d) has an sr and it fits.-chet

Post by **90drifter** » Tue May 27, 2003 9:32 pm

sorry i didn't know if was sr or ka i am still new to this forum.

Post by **Exar-Kun** » Tue May 27, 2003 9:32 pm

its OK, welcome to the forums. THe big red buttong on the upper right is your friend please use it and peruse any open threads you see before posting questions. Also checlk the http://www.240sx.org FAQ section(not to mention the forum FAQ) before asking thigns too, it helps keep down repeat questions and us yelling at you.-chet

Post by **Aries** » Tue May 27, 2003 9:32 pm

don't mind Chet. He doesn't bite often

But yeah, most anything you can think of has been discussed.Some of it just never really got an answer.

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