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Originally Posted by Dwight Southerland
Well, I do not know the length of a stock early Camaro driveshaft, but every one of those I drove or owned was way over 6700 rpm in the lights, and I never broke a driveshaft. And they were not 3.5" diameter and not aluminum.
In fact, the only driveshaft I ever broke was an experimental carbon fiber driveshaft that I spit out on the starting line at Baton Rouge.
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Dwight, the OEM Camaro drive shaft if 49.75" long without the yoke and 55" with them. The diameter is 2.75" and the tubes were thick walled DOM carburized tubes. Therefore, they were very stout from the factory. Usually, the U-Joints were the first thing to fail. Also, in the early days the slicks did not have the traction and grip of today's slicks and suspensions were not as good either.Although the RPM's were high, the engines did not make as much power as today's engines either.