Need Drive Shaft Help

[BadJoey]

You are right on Al about the 1 1/2 inch thing .I can't go any further with the drive shaft till the engine and trans are in . Just in case anyone is interested  for a new shaft with universal and new yoke balanced only using the 2 ends of the GTX shaft I am looking at $300.00 . They are going to go a little stronger then stock . Not sure if that is a good price or not but since my last hope fell though today . I'm glad at leaste I can get one .I guess that old saying is right "You got to pay to play".

[HP2]

Why don't you just have the GTX shaft cut to length and rebalanced? Should be under $100 that way.

[BadJoey]

The end of the yoke is rusted pretty bad . I do not think it will clean up good enough . we haven't totally ruled out the rest of the shaft yet . Either way I'm going to clean it up with the sand blaster (except yoke end) and go from there . The guy doing my engine is on vacation till the 14th , then I have to get that and the trans in . I love my car and I know it is worth what I'm spending yet it still scares me I'm not use to 500 here and a 1000 there .

[Moparal]

I have mine made with a new molly tube and rockwell solid ujoints. I am not sure about your power out put, but mine was 785 hp and 690 tq. Never had a problem. Balanced and with new parts it was under 300 and well worth it. Another thing to do is to paint lines on your drive shaft so you can see if it is twisting on you under hard exelleration. Handy when racing.  I was 60 footing  my 3780 lb 72 cuda at 1.29. It only ran a 9.72 but I thought that was very good for a street car with slicks bolted on. But I also ran a ladder bar set up and a dana.

[BadJoey]

I just came in from sand blasting the drive shaft . It is solid and even though the GTX Yoke will not fit the trans splines the cuda one will . So for now it looks like I'll shorten the GTX shaft (same universals) and use the Cuda yoke . Not being wealthy I could use the 2 hundred I'll save on other parts . By the way I'm looking at about 430 horse at the moumet . Not supper big but it should be plenty for anything I'll be doing .