Not like I'm making big power eh, but axles are hard to come by down here...

I am n/a, making about ~170's at the wheels, gsr in a hatch NO LSD. I take it to the track on 14 inchers with Falken 512's and spin like a **** on the launch (the track is kinda crappy). A buddy said he could lend me some Nitto 555's on 15's if I wanted to try em.

I want to try them, but don't want to launch hard and break anything... am I pretty safe at my power level or do I need to be really careful ? (Never ran drag rads at the track b4)

 

Axles suck in general and like to break, especially at the track. Do yourself a favor and get some aftermarket strenghthend axles. You dont know pain until you snap an axle in the tranny at the track. no fun.

 

I've run a much more powerful setup at the track on street tires w/o issues on the stock LS axles


anyone else ?

 

Just hope that there is no wheel hop otherwise you could break a diff.. That is way worse than an axle. If you are not willing to take a chance then you shouldn't even go to the track or try to race your car. You can break a number of things at the track or on the streets from racing. My friend Jon broke some axles on the street, another friend of mine broke a diff at the track, and I have broken three axles at the track do to a spool and not enough power. So anything can happen.

 

search for preload or preloading the drivetrain. people are running 10's w/ stock d-series axles!!

 

This is a toughie, one of my buddies runs 204 WHP N/A (Gsr block, full Skunk2 head) on radials and has broken a couple of shafts at the track this year. This is on a '91 Civic SI (hatchie obviously).

On the other hand another one of my buddies runs 219 WHP N/A (ITR block, full Skunk2 head) on radials and has broken like 1 shaft in the past 3 years. This is on a '89 CRX.

Really depends on wheel hop and the stress on the shafts (that sounded gay). We always buy shafts that have atleast a one year warranty, most we get have lifetime. So you break em' you get a new one no questions asked. We almost always bring 2 extra shafts each, just to be safe (there were way too many "shaft"s in this post for my liking, but if it helps it's worth it, lol).

 

I have done it in a cheap way, after swaping back my stock D16Y7 the axles wont fit, and since i have a DC2 5 lug conversion i will need to modify the axles.

All i did is grab a pair of accords axle and CNC machined the outer end. dont know what it called in english. cheap upgraded axles..