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will there be a carbon-fiber driveshaft available?
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<blockquote data-quote="StrikerHawk" data-source="post: 1050682" data-attributes="member: 20129"><p>Carbon Fiber structures are EXTREMELY sensitive to impact/shock damage. You would absolutely not want a driveshaft made from full CF. It would last only as long as it took for it to catch a piece of road debris or smack against an rock while off road, and then it would come apart like a light bulb. Great for weight savings, but requires very gentle handling.</p><p>Sticking with a strong, light-weight metallic, Titanium would be the best choice, but it's base material cost is several times that of most other steels, and it's harder to manufacture/machine/weld.</p><p>I think we'd want something ductile enough not to be brittle, with the best possible strength to weight ratio, yielding the strongest possible driveshaft in the smallest possible diameter.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="StrikerHawk, post: 1050682, member: 20129"] Carbon Fiber structures are EXTREMELY sensitive to impact/shock damage. You would absolutely not want a driveshaft made from full CF. It would last only as long as it took for it to catch a piece of road debris or smack against an rock while off road, and then it would come apart like a light bulb. Great for weight savings, but requires very gentle handling. Sticking with a strong, light-weight metallic, Titanium would be the best choice, but it's base material cost is several times that of most other steels, and it's harder to manufacture/machine/weld. I think we'd want something ductile enough not to be brittle, with the best possible strength to weight ratio, yielding the strongest possible driveshaft in the smallest possible diameter. [/QUOTE]
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