QuarterMaster's Lightweight Driveshaft Replacement
nice so that would be like losing 58lbs in your wheels!!
Think about having an ultra light driveshaft, and lighter wheels.
I bet you would seriously pick up 20-30whp with those mods.
Quoted from the webpage: "Our driveshaft shaves off an amazing 14.5lbs of rotating weight from the stock driveshaft."
Think about having an ultra light driveshaft, and lighter wheels.
I bet you would seriously pick up 20-30whp with those mods.
Quoted from the webpage: "Our driveshaft shaves off an amazing 14.5lbs of rotating weight from the stock driveshaft."
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Weight savings on something like a driveshaft are great even if the weight saved is very small.
The drive shaft spins roughly 4 times faster than your wheels, so if you take out 1 lbs of rotating weight from the drive shaft it would be like taking 1 pound off each wheel.
The drive shaft spins roughly 4 times faster than your wheels, so if you take out 1 lbs of rotating weight from the drive shaft it would be like taking 1 pound off each wheel.
A drive shaft of the same weight but larger in diameter will have a larger moment of inertia and will essentially rob power. Enough difference in diameter, and even a lighter drive shaft that is larger in diameter can sap more power.
Yes. It does not add power but it does. Lol. If I am right on simple terms lets say ur car makes 50hp. But take 25hp to get it going. Now with lighter rotational parts it will only take 15hp to get it going.... basicly it takes less to get the car going so it will go faster sooner and be much more responsive.
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All in all this is a great product by Adam and his team. Devo is a place not alot of people know about but this might help get the name out. Now all Devo has to do is become a vendor on here and share there great knowledge and products with the evom community.
For all teh noobs....do you know why your car was listed at the dealer having 281hp and when you hit the dyno its at 230???
It's a thing called drivetrain friction loss. In the process of transmitting the power from the motor to the transmission, to the wheels - power is lost because metal is touching metal and gravity etc.....so your motor essentially gets dragged down.....
a lighter driveshaft in theory should reduce the amount of power lost so maybe now your could make 245 because there is less weight, which causes less friction and less drivetrain friction loss.
So it should free up some power that you already have in your car that is getting sucked by friction. So will it "add" power? I guess that is all in how you think about it. You can say it adds power, but moreso it gives you back power that is being robbed from you. You should see gains on the dyno, since that measures power at the wheel.
It's a thing called drivetrain friction loss. In the process of transmitting the power from the motor to the transmission, to the wheels - power is lost because metal is touching metal and gravity etc.....so your motor essentially gets dragged down.....
a lighter driveshaft in theory should reduce the amount of power lost so maybe now your could make 245 because there is less weight, which causes less friction and less drivetrain friction loss.
So it should free up some power that you already have in your car that is getting sucked by friction. So will it "add" power? I guess that is all in how you think about it. You can say it adds power, but moreso it gives you back power that is being robbed from you. You should see gains on the dyno, since that measures power at the wheel.
Calm down, people are still figuring out if it would gain hp, and what parts are saving weight and which is static and which is rotational. It's hard enough to get those answers, so thats probably why you didn't get your answer.