
12-10-2013, 03:12 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Cobra Make, Engine: Contemporary-427 stroker
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Originally Posted by mickmate
Great summary from Davids school of hard knocks. I must point out his tubular shafts that twisted were driveshaft tubing which is too light on tubing wall. The diff is a big torque multiplier and you need to do some simple maths with your ratio when calculating a tube wall thickness. Then throw in a factor of safety (FOS) on your numbers. Use seamless DOM mechanical tubing.
Then there's 3159, do we know what diff or upgrades that was running or were even available?
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I would say the tubing is much stronger than the original "chicken bone" half shafts   
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