Another Gem from The Driveshaft Shop

[Oakley]

there are certainly areas of improvement on these cars but the driveshaft is the last place i'd be looking.

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[Joshinator99]

there are certainly areas of improvement on these cars but the driveshaft is the last place i'd be looking.

A PD blower and some sticky tires will quickly change your mind lol… ;)

 

[shogun32]

A PD blower and some sticky tires will quickly change your mind lol… ;)

Is it really a need, or just a want?

 

[HKusp]

CoryS lives not too far from DSS. He had a look at their shop in person. He told me that if anyone saw their shop, they would never buy a thing from them. He said it was a complete shithole. Garbage everywhere, no organization. Parts and tools laying around.

 

[Joshinator99]

Is it really a need, or just a want?

Two piece driveshafts are almost always weak at the carrier bearing. I snapped my Camaro one in half with much less power than I have now. Be interested to hear from some fellow Mustang owners with PD blowers who run their car at the strip with sticky drag radials. Gotta imagine many had to upgrade too.

 

[shogun32]

Two piece driveshafts are almost always weak at the carrier bearing.

Sure but that's why the carrier bearing support exists, yes? $400 vs $$$$ for a shaft?

I wonder when drag racing will start awarding points for smooth starts instead of just dropping the clutch and hoping it doesn't exhibit uncontrolled rapid disassembly.

 

[WildHorse]

My 800DSS broke. And I'm maybe 460ish wheel NA.
Went for warranty, they told me abuse. What ? LOL.
So put the stockers back in like 3 years ago, been perfect.

 

[daSNAK3]

How are they still in business?.. sheesh.

 

[Prodigal]

QA CF for the win. No NVH and a much better feel. No regrets at all! These things are a piece of art. Pay once cry once.

 

[DougS550]

Had a DSS aluminum driveshaft installed on my 2022 mach 1 last may. Never balanced correctly, drove me nuts. Got considerably worse last week so i took the car to a shop to get it checked out. Bad U Joints. They wouldnt reinstall the ds stating it was not safe. So i took the OEM ds up and they reinstalled that one. Care was smooth as silk with the OEM DS. I called DSS to ask for options. Approx $300 for them to rebuild and rebalance the ds. It has less than 2k miles on it.
$1000 to buy the DS
$300 to have it installed
$300 to have it uninstalled.
Then
$300 to have it rebuilt.
$300 to have it reinstalled.
I dont think so.
Both the DSS axles i installed last summer failed within 2 weeks of install. I replaced them with G-force axles.
$2000 to buy the axles(lethal performance accepted a return on these and helped me out on the price of the gforce axles, thx to lethal)
$400 install.
$400 remove and install the G-force axles.
DSS has cost me so much money installing and uninstalling the Junk they sell over the past year.
They of course would not refund me the money when i asked to just return the bad driveshaft. And they dont reimburse for costs of uninstalling and reinstalling. I dont want it rebuilt and reinstalled on my car. I will never have any DSS parts on any of my cars ever again. Im throwing the DS in the trash where it belongs.

Even when people recommended DSS DS, I read their warranty and it looked like a Lawyer wrote it. No way I was going to buy anything from them. I bought GGorce Oulaw axles QA1 CF DS and never looked back. I am sorry to hear they treated you like crap. It would cost them peanuts to have fixed it which would have brought them 20 + Fold in profit from new customers who hear on virus like this that they back up their product. Huge miss for them.

 

[robvas]

Sure but that's why the carrier bearing support exists, yes? $400 vs $$$$ for a shaft?

The hellcat guys still break the stock two piece driveshaft with the billet support installed. Not sure how many Mustang guys are running those but I would imagine they would still break them too

 

[80FoxCoupe]

If DSS sells more units, there will be more complaints.

Gforce alum driveshafts for 6r80, had one vibrate, another broke, 3rd perfect.

Qa1 carbon ds for 6r80, perfect with zero issues.

Dss 2000hp axles and carbon ds for th400, perfect with zero issues. Had the axles in the car since day one and were present with all the driveshafts above.

I consider my car pretty fast and put over 1000whp on all parts above. I race on prepped surfaces often, more than most I'd say.

 

[HKusp]

Again, CoryS was 9.13 in the quarter at 148(?) if I recall, and he had the factory 2 piece on sticky tires, full weight car.

 

[robvas]

Again, CoryS was 9.13 in the quarter at 148(?) if I recall, and he had the factory 2 piece on sticky tires, full weight car.

Just like driveshafts where you can find a bunch of guys on the forums that broke them running only 10's or 11's and some guys take them way past that

 

[HKusp]

Just like driveshafts where you can find a bunch of guys on the forums that broke them running only 10's or 11's and some guys take them way past that

I have no prepped drag passes on mine but I have stock axles and stock 2 piece drive shaft. I beat on it pretty good on drag radials and I am over 700wheel for almost 10K miles now (admittedly, not all of it on DR's). Not saying they may be on borrowed time, but so far so good. The guy I bought my Whipple from runs up in Canada in a drag series up there outside of Toronto. He had a season and a half on stock axles running 9's, switched to 1400hp drag axles and on the 4th run broke the drivers side. It really is kind of a craps shoot.

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