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has been the best money I've spent..." |
UPS delivered
my ACPT carbon fiber shaft and I installed on my 94Z28 6M car last
night. First off, I have to say just picking the thing up put me
in disbelief. It's hard to imagine a driveshaft that is so light!
Previously,
my car had a nasty vibration with a straightened and balanced steel
shaft (3.73 gears in the rear now) starting around 75 mph and continuing
to 95, then smoothing out, then continuing on and off through WARP
1, WARP 2, etc.
To the test
drive: I noticed the difference with the carbon fiber shaft immediately,
say from 20 mph up. SMOOOOTH. Wow. Reminds me of my neighbor's Lexus!
I had no idea how much NVH was transmitted through that steel shaft.
It was a VERY noticable difference; heck even my fiancee (who couldn't
tell I put Eibach springs on my car ;-)) was the first one in the
car to say "why isn't the car vibrating like it use to" (she doesn't
know about the carbon fiber shaft expenditure - I told here we were
just going for a ride :-))
Well, I accelerated
up into the old "come apart at the seams vibration zone" and guess
what? COMPLETE elimination of the vibration. I continued to WARP
1, WARP 2 (screams were coming from the passenger seat at this point)
as STILL no vibration.
Objectively,
I can say this has been the best money I've spent on the car (next
to NOS of course :-)). It's much smoother AND seat of the pants
faster. Next week will be the dyno test. If I don't see ONE extra
horsepower out of this thing, I WILL NOT CARE - the money spent
was well worth elimination of that DA%# vibration I've been dealing
with (even when I tried the aluminum ILE shaft).
I am not affiliated,
blah blah blah ... with ACPT in any way, and I PAID, with my own
hard earned money, for the carbon fiber shaft. This shaft just plain
WORKS!! Thank you James Leslie at ACPT for a SUPERIOR aftermarket
product.
Tom Taucher
Feb 11, 1998
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