aftermarket driveshaft issues?

Schu · Jun 14, 2015

I am contemplating getting and aftermarket aluminum or carbon replacment driveshaft when I do my MGW shifter upgrade, I am wondering if anyone has experienced any issues such as vibration at higher rpm's?

Who's shafts are you guys using and who is an option to Driveshaft Shop?

Thanks guys.

Jmeo · Jun 14, 2015

Schu said:
I am contemplating getting and aftermarket aluminum or carbon replacment driveshaft when I do my MGW shifter upgrade, I am wondering if anyone has experienced any issues such as vibration at higher rpm's?

Who's shafts are you guys using and who is an option to Driveshaft Shop?

Thanks guys.

Well, I'll let you know hopefully by Friday. My car is being dropped off tomorrow for Kooks Headers w/green cats, McLeod RXT clutch, MGW and Shaftmasters one piece driveshaft.

Jaime

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Jmeo · Jun 14, 2015

Jmeo said:
Well, I'll let you know hopefully by Friday. My car is being dropped off tomorrow for Kooks Headers w/green cats, McLeod RXT clutch, McLeod Aluminum Flywheel, FFRP high performance clutch cable, MGW and Shaftmasters one piece driveshaft.

Your options as far as I have researched are:

Shaftmasters
DSS
dynotech

Jaime

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Schu · Jun 15, 2015

thanks

Anthony@HTM · Jun 16, 2015

I have the DSS CF for my car and couldn't be happier. No difference in NVH whatsoever.

dragonacc · Jun 16, 2015

Anthony@HTM said:
I have the DSS CF for my car and couldn't be happier. No difference in NVH whatsoever.

Glad to hear there is no NVH increase, have you noticed much performance benefit?

Schu · Jun 16, 2015

Anthony@HTM said:
I have the DSS CF for my car and couldn't be happier. No difference in NVH whatsoever.

I have noticed that the trend is towards Aluminum and away from carbon, besides the shatter effect of a catastrophic failure, are there any other reasons for this that anyone knows of?

I'm also going to need some motor oil and filters soon good sir.

Anthony@HTM · Jun 16, 2015

dragonacc said:
Glad to hear there is no NVH increase, have you noticed much performance benefit?

Smoother shifting, otherwise not too much. I really hate multiple piece drive shafts.

Anthony@HTM · Jun 16, 2015

Schu said:
I have noticed that the trend is towards Aluminum and away from carbon, besides the shatter effect of a catastrophic failure, are there any other reasons for this that anyone knows of?

I'm also going to need some motor oil and filters soon good sir.

I'm more from the import world and it was carbon or nothing.

The reason why I went cf was because it absorbs noise better. Whereas alumnium will transfer sound easier which may increase NVH.

Let me know on the oil

stealthfrc · Jun 22, 2015

just installed a aluminum driveshaft in my GTPP... seems it removed that stupid "thud" you get when clutching in. drives smooth as can be.
i also installed the mgw at the same time. the shifter is great, you do get some increased vibration thru the shift knob but its not terrible.

Schu · Jun 22, 2015

stealthfrc said:
just installed a aluminum driveshaft in my GTPP... seems it removed that stupid "thud" you get when clutching in. drives smooth as can be.
i also installed the mgw at the same time. the shifter is great, you do get some increased vibration thru the shift knob but its not terrible.

fantastic, that is why I originally started this thread... I wanted to do both at the same time.

IvanCRF · Jun 22, 2015

Schu said:
I have noticed that the trend is towards Aluminum and away from carbon, besides the shatter effect of a catastrophic failure, are there any other reasons for this that anyone knows of?

I'm also going to need some motor oil and filters soon good sir.

Carbon fiber turns to crap out in the desert. You'd likely never replace an aluminum one in your lifetime.

GrabberBlue5.0 · Jun 22, 2015

I'm probably in the minority here but I do not like DSS at all. I bought an aluminum ds from them and I had a vibrating driveshaft around 80 mph. I then clocked the driveshaft and the vibration moved up to 110 mph but wasn't a huge deal because I never really drive that fast.

After about 7k miles the cv shaft took a crap on me so I uninstalled the driveshaft and sent it back to DSS. After two months I finally get the driveshaft back and they rebuilt it on their dime as they said it did not look like it was my fault.

Reinstalled driveshaft, after 5k miles same crap happened again. Both times the driveshaft had a harmonic resonance around 78 mph. DSS told me it wasn't a bad shaft and both times rebuilt it on their own dime, I really think they should have just gave me a different ds as there were too many issues with the one I had, and the customer service was subpar at best

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IvanCRF · Jun 22, 2015

GrabberBlue5.0 said:
I'm probably in the minority here but I do not like DSS at all. I bought an aluminum ds from them and I had a vibrating driveshaft around 80 mph. I then clocked the driveshaft and the vibration moved up to 110 mph but wasn't a huge deal because I never really drive that fast.

After about 7k miles the cv shaft took a crap on me so I uninstalled the driveshaft and sent it back to DSS. After two months I finally get the driveshaft back and they rebuilt it on their dime as they said it did not look like it was my fault.

Reinstalled driveshaft, after 5k miles same crap happened again. Both times the driveshaft had a harmonic resonance around 78 mph. DSS told me it wasn't a bad shaft and both times rebuilt it on their own dime, I really think they should have just gave me a different ds as there were too many issues with the one I had, and the customer service was subpar at best

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Damn, the design of it sounds suspect. Either the mass or the spring constant of the aluminum was not calculated correctly for this vehicle.

Jmeo · Jun 22, 2015

The shop I use (Tasca Mod Shop) said they have have multiple issues with DSS products that they simply will not use them anymore. I think that really speaks in volume. They obviously have issues and have not seemed to get them sorted out.

If you are a DSS customer and have had no issues that's awesome. I did not mean to offend anyone who got one of their products.

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