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ACPT carbon fiber driveshafts provide a special measure of extra safety. Despite safety hardware like shaft hoops and covers, a broken metal driveshaft can become a flailing bludgeon that beats up everything in its' path; severe injuries to the driver, extreme damage to the car, and even vaulting the car into the air can be the result. Carbon fiber minimizes these dire consequences.
Carbon
fiber driveshafts are built for strength primarily to transfer torque
and can be broken with a hard blow from the side. The result is that when
a u-joint or yoke fails the carbon fiber composite begins to disintegrate
when it contacts the chassis or driveshaft hoop. As the composite comes
apart, the shaft simply turns into a bunch of loose carbon fibers. much
like the end of a broom . In fact, in composite technology this failsafe
state is called "brooming". Instead of tearing up the driver and shredding
the chassis, the carbon fiber broom will probably just polish dirt and
paint off the chassis.
Racers race to go fast, not to cheat death and disability. ACPT is very proud of the fact that our driveshafts have helped to prevent serious injury on several teams, like Dick Anderson Racing. "I have two talented, young drivers to protect," Dick Anderson explains. "Both have narrowly escaped serious injury when metal shafts broke and penetrated their cars. Last season, a bracket came loose, destroyed the torque arm and broke the ACPT shaft in two; but it never came into the car. It "broomed", just as they said it would, and no one was hurt."
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Advanced Composite Products
and Technology, Inc.
15602 Chemical Lane
Huntington Beach, CA 92649 - USA
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