What Tailshaft Are You Running

[Marcus89]

Videos like that scare you so much. It's like hearing about flywheels letting go and coming through the cabin you would think there is a pretty high chance of the driver getting hit if that happens would not be pretty

[Marko R1]

^ exactly what I was thinking.

Without that loop over the tail shaft, it could be lethal.

There are other measures like scatter shields for flywheels as well for added safety

[kitto]

That car had a tailshaft loop that met IPRA requirements.

He said it did sfa to stop the tsilshaft from coming into the cabin. The explosion obliterated the tailshaft loop.

Not cool huh.

[WMDC35]

As elite racing said earlier apparently the around 51 inches & over is the danger zone, which is about where the rwd skylines are, the loop is mainly to stop the shaft hitting the ground & potentially flipping the car

I’ll prob go back to 2 piece? , interesting on some of the later mustangs they’re going from the 2 piece to 1 after failures, there’s quite a lot of debate around it

(the 1 piece i have has upgraded unis, is around 2.75inches diameter & supposed to be good for over 10,000rpm? is about 50 inches long)

Edited September 12, 2012 by WMDC35