Re: Aluminum Driveshaft, who is the best for the $$$???
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Inland Drive Shaft or Victory that you can order through Mancini's
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Re: Aluminum Driveshaft, who is the best for the $$$???
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Wiles Driveshaft in TN does all ours and he is about the cheapest I have seen. Think a 3.5 made from .125 wall tubing is around $320 with no yoke
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Re: Aluminum Driveshaft, who is the best for the $$$???
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Re: Aluminum Driveshaft, who is the best for the $$$???
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All the company suggestions with "hands down" after the comment. Why are they THE one hands down? Because you like them, good service, whatever? That's fine, but do you have any experience with the others to say they aren't the same?
Reading up, they ALL use .125 wall 6061 material, with Spicer joints and your choice of yokes. All of them have the option of welded or glued and probably all buy their ends from the same place. So basically they are all building the same shaft. Some tend to think they get a better product when they use the well known name company. Many times the name only costs you more for the same product.
Now that said, if you have plenty of spline engagement, the shaft being an 1" too short is likely not your problem.
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Re: Aluminum Driveshaft, who is the best for the $$$???
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All the company suggestions with "hands down" after the comment. Why are they THE one hands down? Because you like them, good service, whatever? That's fine, but do you have any experience with the others to say they aren't the same? You've been on here long enough to know that's the pattern with EVERY request for a recommendation on Moparts. "MY guy is the best and everyone else is a poor second choice!" Carbs, cams, heads, converters... it's a broken record. I can usually predict who recommends what because it's often the same people saying the same thing over and over again. He11, I'm probably guilty of it, too, but at least I recognize it. Oh, how strong is a 3" chro-moly drive shaft? I'm not sure that I have room for a 3.5" between the style of drive shaft loop and my x-pipe exhaust system.
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Re: Aluminum Driveshaft, who is the best for the $$$???
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All the company suggestions with "hands down" after the comment. Why are they THE one hands down? Because you like them, good service, whatever? That's fine, but do you have any experience with the others to say they aren't the same? You've been on here long enough to know that's the pattern with EVERY request for a recommendation on Moparts. "MY guy is the best and everyone else is a poor second choice!" Carbs, cams, heads, converters... it's a broken record. I can usually predict who recommends what because it's often the same people saying the same thing over and over again. He11, I'm probably guilty of it, too, but at least I recognize it. Oh yeah, I know how it works. I think I had a Denny's alum shaft in my own car. Ralph (Wiles) is kind of the "go to guy" for the Dirt Late Model guys. His shop is right next to a dyno shop I use at times, he actually owns the building. So we were up there several years ago and he showed us the driveshaft shop. He has state of the art equipment. Asked him why he didn't do drag race shafts. He said nobody had ever asked him to......LOL!!!! So me and some others asked him to and now he does a lot of drag race stuff. We have one of his carbon shafts in our radial car. So the OP asked about "for the money". While every company mentioned builds a great shaft, I feel Ralph's is just as good and he is cheaper than them. When you call Wiles, you talk to Ralph, not a sales guy
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Re: Aluminum Driveshaft, who is the best for the $$$???
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All the company suggestions with "hands down" after the comment. Why are they THE one hands down? Because you like them, good service, whatever? That's fine, but do you have any experience with the others to say they aren't the same?. I could bash another company that screwed up at least three of ours, but since nobody suggested them, I left it alone...Next time, I will just post a picture with their logo on it.
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Re: Aluminum Driveshaft, who is the best for the $$$???
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Often times, its not about who supplies the tubing, U-joints and weld yokes.
The key is how straight and how balanced the finished product is. Yep... I had a well known company make a shaft for me and it turned out to be junk.. was .040 out of true and the balance was way off.. cost me another $350 to get another from another company.. now all I use is Dynotech.. they are local so I can pick it up the next day.. you wouldnt think .040 is much but it is
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Re: Aluminum Driveshaft, who is the best for the $$$???
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From the above post -
"Yep... I had a well known company make a shaft for me and it turned out to be junk.. was .040 out of true and the balance was way off.. cost me another $350 to get another from another company.. now all I use is Dynotech.. they are local so I can pick it up the next day.. you wouldnt think .040 is much but it is"
Check a late model Dodge service manual - for a truck prop shaft - .010" is max at the weld ends and .015" in the center. That's for a truck running down the road - 2000 - 3000 rpm.
Now spin that prop shaft at engine speed down the track - 6500 and above.
Yeah I know.. but being I bought a new shaft I expected it to be good.. my mistake.. but since then I have used Dynotech and they have been great
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