GT350 half shafts and launching

Just wondering if anyone has upgraded to GT350 axles and abused them at the track yet? If they hold up decent enough I might try a set to save some cash but figured if others are breaking them easily enough then I will stay away!

Matt

66sprint6 said:

Just wondering if anyone has upgraded to GT350 axles and abused them at the track yet? If they hold up decent enough I might try a set to save some cash but figured if others are breaking them easily enough then I will stay away!

Matt

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I have them on my boosted car. they survived the one track day I went this year. my transmission however did not. I don't think I'd trust them on drag radials, but on bias ply tires (which I have) they didn't instantly snap. Not a lot of data for you, but it's hard to find a lot on them.

I think stock GT half shafts have been into the 9's reliably.

WildHorse said:

I think stock GT half shafts have been into the 9's reliably.

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:lol:

WildHorse said:

I think stock GT half shafts have been into the 9's reliably.

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On an auto car, sure. I'm shooting for 10's on stock half shafts in a manual, we will see...

Bringing this back. I live oversees so i looking to save some money. Any update on the 350 axles?

Faceme said:

Bringing this back. I live oversees so i looking to save some money. Any update on the 350 axles?

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Still no issues here. Held up fine when I was manual, then after the autoswap still doing fine.

The GT350 axles are only an upgrade to the driver side. They are identical on the passenger side. Not really much of an upgrade

yeah. i reazlized this and just went for the beefed up axles from DSS

I snapped my stock drivers side axle shaft at 1100 miles. Was at the strip, and got it to hook awesome on the stock PP tires. Put the GT350 halfshafts in, been to two drag race nights, 2 auto crosses and three track days. Last two track days and auto cross were with a whipple under the hood.

Rjames18 said:

The GT350 axles are only an upgrade to the driver side. They are identical on the passenger side. Not really much of an upgrade

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Isn't the weak point on the stock GT the drivers side? I have a set, just never got the time to install them. Will do so over winter or next spring.

I have still yet to hear any GT350 snapping their shafts, albeit GT350s are less likely to be drag raced. So there's that.

poncho@home said:

Isn't the weak point on the stock GT the drivers side? I have a set, just never got the time to install them. Will do so over winter or next spring.

I have still yet to hear any GT350 snapping their shafts, albeit GT350s are less likely to be drag raced. So there's that.

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Yes it is the weakpoint of the two.
There's plenty of people that have snapped them running them on regular GT's

snapped the GT350 shafts on regular GTs at near stock HP levels?

I’m holding out to see what the new GT500 comes with for half shafts...

Stolen 98 said:

I’m holding out to see what the new GT500 comes with for half shafts...

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That's a great idea.