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Strik3r

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Wondering what choices I have re: replacing tailshaft. The boot in the centre bearing of my tailshaft split, which means it needs to come apart to be repaired and will therefore need to be re-balanced before it goes back in the car. We ballpark total cost to be about $400 to repair, rebalance and refit the tailshaft.

Thats a fair bit of dosh, and we were pondering other options.

So far:

a) Buy 2nd hand tailshaft. ~$100.

b) Repair this one. ~$400-450

c) UAS 1 piece Chromolly tailshaft. Retail $980 + shipping.

d) ?? profit ??

Anyone have any suggestions? I'm glad I wasn't pondering this 2 years ago when the APTC tailshaft fiasco went down. Are there any other local places that will do a carbon tailshaft ? Car is a '97 GTR.

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To be honest i'd just grab another 2nd hand one. No point spending big dollars for such a tiny gain.

I'd only go custom if i had to and even then i'd probably stick with a plain old steel front half to keep the cost down.

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