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Hey. I was talking to my friend who used to work at Vortech and he told me since I'm not the origional buyer of the kit it costs like 2 grand to have it fixed if the splines are stripped. After that I was talking to my friend at a machine shop here in Tampa and asked if he could take the shaft and work his metal magic and get me some new stronger splines on it somehow. He told me that it might be doable. I want to know if that's a totaly retarded idea, even if he can get it done and if it installs properly. He was talking about carbide metal and measuring everything in microns and balancing and other big words I diddn't understand to much. He knows metal great. But not cars. Maybe my head doctors(Yeah. That's plural) were right when they said I was crazy.

or you can just buy the upgraded shaft from Knu Knoceptz and be done with it.

If the splines are stripped on BOTH sides your looking at $600-800 to fix and include the bearing support shown in the link below. If just the female is bad, its about $450.

Also there are three version of the shaft (and now the newer 4th that is completely differnt) The first is terrible, smaller diameter then all the rest, if you have that model to bring it up to par could be another $100 or so.


http://www.contour.org/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=turbo&Number=256308&page=&view=&sb=5&o=&fpart=1&vc=1