Carbon Fibre Prop shafts
 

What do you chaps think of these

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60% lighter than the stock steel, One piece eliminating the centre bearing, rated at 3000 Nm of torque & alot more gentle on your transmission due to carbon fibres shock absorbtion characteristics

If i had the spare pounds at the moment think i would invest

Dean

price???

Are you sitting down ??

£840.oo Plus the Vodka and Tonic :D

Johnny are you still there :lol:

holy ****!

group buy??? :D

we will need around 2000 people interested to get the right price!

any other advantage other than weight ereduction and strengh?:D

Power Loss through the transmission will be less due to not as much effort needed from the engine to get things turning.

Group Buy.......:D

bank account reduction :D

And you can't even show off the Lurvely Carbon :(

group buy,why not?

Hmm How much interest would there be i wonder & i don't think prices would come down enough to outway the relative pound per buck performance increase .. Shame though


Dean

Ive bought loads of these.............















On Grand Tourismo!!!:):):)

£840.00 tempting:D

Thats cheap, I think I was looking at some that were £2000

I would be interested in some driveshafts though.

Forgive me for being a cynic....but.....

What bonds the carbon fibre to the steel UJ's ??

I have visons of after a bit of wear and tear, heat and a bit of oil contamination breaking down the bonding agent and the Prop will be spinning whilst the diff end UJ stays still!! ;) :D

What is the weight saving?

That alone could tip the scales?

At £840+VAT=£987 it could be tempting.

The website says 60% weight saving over OEM. Does anyone know what the OEM weighs?

They are based in Banbury so I wonder who they supply? ;)

A rough guess, having lifted a OEM prop shaft, would be 15 to 20kgs

Prodrive, apparently the rally cars have been thrashing round with them for ages & being rated at 3000 Nms should be pretty tough, The Uj's are bonded, but internally so contamination should not be an issue, Im sure if you did spin the Uj the companty would be so higly embarresed that you would have carbon fibre goodies for free for life,
Shall i enquire with my contact then, with regards to prices & numbers ordered ??

Dean

steven, you are very close with your guess, its 12.5kg

7.5kg's isn't a great amount of weight saving for the outlay in my opinion, the rotational velocity saving isn't going to be worth much either.

think it would be one of the last things on my list of worthwhile mods.

i could think of a few other things to spend £900 on before a carbon prop.

chatting to the guys at WRC Technologies at Silverstone today, they have highly recommended the carbon prop shaft as my next upgrade, they have it for sale for about the same price. currently running 340bhp on my02 STI (high flow cat and 3" exhaust, uprated fuel pump, induction kit and remap)

They say changing it will be good for .4 sec of my 0-60 time!!

seriously considering it

So you believe them?????????????????? :Suspiciou

il take two!.............one for my car and the other to hang the curtains in my bathroom! lovely carbon!

Steve, there are better things to spend £900 on that would get more than 0.4 seconds off your 1/4 mile, like a nice turbo upgrade getting you nearer to 400 HP :D

SL

just thought id gauge interest in it... and it seems like its a bad idea, has no one had one put on then?

is an upgraded turbo the next point of call then, does anything else need to be changed?

Nope, it a great Idea. I've thought about it and would be interested in a group.