Custom carbon fiber driveshaft

[Excelerater]

I like the look and weight savings of a CF driveshaft, but after seeing Stephanie’s (from AM) disintegrate on the drag strip, that made me cringe. That’s the reason I would lean toward aluminum over CF. Fast fwd to 5:30 seconds to see the failure.

Her shaft broke from what looks like tireshake or a defect ,I see 2500 HP pro Mods run CF shafts with fat tires and 60 foot times under one second

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[Barrel]

And that was a DSS CF that exploded in that video.

I busted a DSS CF shaft at 900whp on a non-prepped surface doing a burnout with radials. Separated the shaft from the yoke. I got them to replace it for free - sold the new shaft and switched to QA1. Now I make even more power but it's held nice and strong.

I won't put DSS stuff on my car after their axle bolt issues and my busted DS.

 

[Cobra Jet]

I busted a DSS CF shaft at 900whp on a non-prepped surface doing a burnout with radials. Separated the shaft from the yoke. I got them to replace it for free - sold the new shaft and switched to QA1. Now I make even more power but it's held nice and strong.

I won't put DSS stuff on my car after their axle bolt issues and my busted DS.

and across this site there have been many DSS part failures… not only on this site, but if one were to Google, failures across multiple platforms…

 

[NGOT8R]

I busted a DSS CF shaft at 900whp on a non-prepped surface doing a burnout with radials. Separated the shaft from the yoke. I got them to replace it for free - sold the new shaft and switched to QA1. Now I make even more power but it's held nice and strong.

I won't put DSS stuff on my car after their axle bolt issues and my busted DS.

Which begs the question, can 2018+ manual transmission S550 GTs swap the transmission output flange to a 2015-2017 4 bolt flange and have more options for driveshafts?

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