Are all stock driveshafts of the same quality?
There are differences in the shafts from /6 to v-8 to performance v-8. There are several choices of diameter, and tube thickness.
One of my local competitors that is another shop that just makes shafts with no knowledge of what and why, just recently almost killed a customer. . .
There was a girl in a outlaw class from Texas that had a shaft and it broke, almost killing her, now the rule is made to use 2 loops in the cars, that ain't gonna save them, knowledge of what a shaft needs will.
Playing with factory shafts and many of the old shafts have a inner vibration damper system and then mixing that with performance is chance of fukin yourself up good, to save at the most $500. . .
When the stock shaft comes apart thru the traps, or at speed, the damage will be so far beyond $500, you'll wish you spent 2x that.
Now if this is a DD and you want to mix and match different shafts from different cars and uses, thats another story, and it can be done, but playing with performance stuff and changing gears and putting shafts thru rpms and power they weren't designed for can be a very costly experiment.
The china issue today is far worse then ever before. . . Many names listed above can not be trusted, except for Spicer and Rockwell.
Everything else is made in china, some of the biggest performance names are using china copies.
If i listed names you wouldn't believe me till i pulled a $2 china joint from it's box and then the performance and the other name brand stuff. . . .
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