Driveline shops in Vermont?

[Dave_G]

Does anyone know of anyone in Vermont (or NH or NY if we have to) that does good custom work with drive shafts? We're looking to have a custom drive shaft made for our Volvo LeMons racer.

To make a long story short, we added a turbo to our B230F-powered Volvo 262C, which makes lots of power and makes it go very fast. Unfortunately, it also blows up Volvo transmissions, as I discovered accelerating out of a second-gear turn at our last race. There was a very exciting KABOOM! followed by lots of loud crunching noises, followed by lack of movemennt.

So we followed the usual solution to this problem and swapped in a T5 transmission from a 5.0 Mustang. It fits fine, but now we need to attach a Ford slip yoke (which we have) to the front of our Volvo drive shaft to make it all work. Any ideas for who could do this reliably?

[vtgti]

Last I heard, Charlebois truck parts offered this service.

[Rabbit Farmer]

Ditto what Chris said.

If it doesn't have to be local, then the driveshaftshop.com

[Dave_G]

Anyone have any recent experience with Charlebois? I was asking a local shop here who told me they used to use them all the time because they used to do great work, but not so much any more after a key guy left. And yeah, given that our race is 12 days away, it needs to be local enough to drive to.