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Ok so i am tired as heck but im home i will make this short!. as most of you know i am the test mule for the x-charger. and yesterday while on the dyno at around 118 MPR my driveshaft exploded! do i have your attention i hope so. this is what we found. when this happend i was 100 miles away and could not do anything but find dave from explorer express a new shaft and wait. all day and all night i speculated on why. after long talks with my 2 ford buddy and rygen,screamin and kurtv6 i kinda came to the conclusion that the v6 drive shaft was a piece of crap ( no duh ) any way my ford bud did notice that the new one had a new part number. Hum, so i showed up today and on the floor was the shaft broken in two and both u joints apart. as it turns out the 05 v6 drive shaft just presses in the u joint caps. at high rpm 110 plus the caps start to come out. (i will post pics soon)

The u joints and the mounts are fine they did not break at the high rpm the caps shifted and the u joint simply cam out. i tell you all this because i know alot of you are excceding the recomended speed, we use to think that it was only the tires but its not. the up side to the story is i am alive no one was hurt except my car and they have fixed the drive shaft, oh yea did i mention the new driveshaft now comes with larger caps and retainer rings! i will post pics of them too. i have no recorse with ford i am not going after them i am owning up to the fact that the car was going faster than it should have. i say this because you are all my family and i dont want any of you getting hurt. check you driveshafts if you have the old style hopfully the will do a recall i cant its too late but please if you racing moding to exceed the specs you should check into this. all others that just got the car for its pure beauty like i origianaly did you should be ok ! this only happend because the car was going too dam fast 110 to 120

thank you i hope this helps you. i will be posting a complete update later but i just got home and felt this had to be said

again no performance cars are ok ( ford dont sue me!) but for all you gear heads and you know who you are! this is important.


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The car is designed to go that fast, therefore no one is at fault if parts wear out simply for that reason.

Either the parts are faulty, and the blame lies with Ford, or something else contributed to the fail.

I could see if you added aftermarket parts that caused the car to exceed the factory specs, but this does not seem to be the case with your story.

I agree, everyone should be careful when driving that fast, but that's what this car was meant to do.

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Humboldt Stang wrote:
The car is designed to go that fast, therefore no one is at fault if parts wear out simply for that reason.

Either the parts are faulty, and the blame lies with Ford, or something else contributed to the fail.

I could see if you added aftermarket parts that caused the car to exceed the factory specs, but this does not seem to be the case with your story.

I agree, everyone should be careful when driving that fast, but that's what this car was meant to do.


well the x-charger is a hell of a big aftermarket part if you ask me. and the mustang speed limiter is set at 112 MPH and it was running from 110 to 120 so unless i am the worst person at posting you did not read the post!


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Read it, but must have misunderstood it.
Speed limiter is 112?

*Edit:
Aha.
Your signature pic threw me.
It's a V6.
I stand corrected

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