Drive Shaft Shortening

[CoxyLaad 0]

Hi all,

I need to shortedn my front driveshafts to get them to fit on my corrado.

I have been told that if I am going to have anything over 200bhp then friction welding is not suitable ie dodgey and I should get some custom shafts made up.

 

has anyone done this shaft shortening exercise before?

having custom shafts made up is quite costly and I would rather get them shortened, but if there is a chance they will give way then I think I will have to bite the bullet.

 

Any thoughts?

[scruffydubbers 0]

sounds complicated,

 

i know when putting VR into polos the drive shafts need shortening, and dubsport have done a few of these conversions you could try ringing them.

 

can you not use VR driveshafts?

[Bournemouth James 0]

JBS made custom driveshafts for mine, they look really good aswell

 

http://www.jbsautodesigns.co.uk/

[CoxyLaad 0]

were they custom on offs, or did they shorten your existing ones?

 

How did they do it?

and what were the costs?

[Bournemouth James 0]

Sorry, i couldnt tell you how much it costs, or how they done it, it was included in the price of the 20vt conversion and they were already on my car when i got it,

 

I do know they are custom hybrid ones, they didnt shorten the existing ones,

 

Check out there webpage, go to conversions, mine is the featured corrado, its got the full spec

[CoxyLaad 0]

Thats a nice corrado mate.

 

I had a set of custom shafts made up for my 1.8T mk2, but they were a lot of money and I was looking to cut some costs with other methods.....suppose I shouldnt be cutting costs with driveshafts, especially when I am going to be have somewhere in the region of 280bhp - 320bhp going through them.

 

I have 4 shafts to do though :roll: