Carbon Prop Shaft

[JamieP]

[Jellybean]

This was a while back in one of the magazines but a UK company make one called http://www.torqline.com/product_detail_19.php, they do alot of carbon prop shafts for the Le Mans, GT, WRC rally teams and one or two F1 teams

 

in the mag it stated the Supra carbon prop was 1K sterling (this was about 1-2 years back)

 

They had a documentary on Discovery channel about them, some good viewing

 

 

The only other company I found was Titan Motorsports

Edited April 6, 2009 by Jellybean (see edit history)

[Kranz]

The advantage of removing rotating mass off the engine & drivetrain is that in effect it is like removing the same amount of mass from the car x the gear ratio. It only gives faster acceleration, not more power

 

So for a prop it will be the mass x the diff ratio.

 

For the flywheel it will be the mass x the total gear ratio, so the effect in 1st will be MUCH more then the effect in 6th.

 

For the best effect lighten the engine rotating components first (crank, flywheel & clutch), then the items pre-differential, then the itmes post differential (including wheels & tyres) and finally the body.

[dandan]

Seems not bud, i have just got a similar wheel and tyre setup to him and dont want to be doing the same to my prop at suprapod.

 

http://www.supraforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=535365

 

Wow - that guy is pushing some serious power from a stock bottom end to be hitting 147mph!