Many racers concentrate on a driveline components’ strength and durability when it comes to transmissions and differentials. Typically, the last consideration is the hardware found between the transmission and the rearend. Once the engine, transmission, and differential are bolted in place, we then measure and look into that additional critical component: the driveshaft.
Strange Engineering is focused on the quality of all of their driveline pieces when it comes to putting power to the track, but they also engineer some hardware that makes life easier in the shop and pit area.
“When it comes to putting high-value horsepower to the pavement, nothing is more important – or frequently overlooked – than the driveshaft,” explains J.C. Cascio, Director of Business Development for Strange Engineering.
The Strange Engineering HD nodular iron yokes (left) are metallurgically designed for high-performance street and street rod applications. For durability in all-out drag racing applications, their lines of billet 4340 chrome-moly steel yokes (right) have material added in critical areas and are exclusively machined by Strange with steel produced in the USA.
A spread of yoke designs by Strange includes their HD nodular iron units; these are created from a patented blend of nodular iron with much greater tensile strength than conventional (factory) cast iron; these yokes accept 1310-, 1350-, and 1480-sized universal joints, and are the perfect hardware for high-performance street cars and cruisers.
Similar in extreme design theories as Strange Engineering’s pinion yokes, these removable caps on the two-piece transmission yokes allow you to fully disconnect the driveshaft from both the rearend and the transmission.
Stepping up to hardcore racing applications, Strange Engineering offers chrome-moly yokes that are stronger and more durable. These units are CNC-machined from heat-forged 4340 chrome-moly steel to meet the extreme demands of drag racing. These yokes also provide useful features from their engineers, such as where additional material is added in critical areas. Due to their high chromium content, a black oxide finish that resists corrosion is included.
The third and latest yoke design is the Strange two-piece severe duty unit. Also made of chrome-moly, these yokes are developed for General Motors 27- and 32- spline tailshafts. They cover a wide spread of GM transmissions, manual or automatic, and can be ordered for either bushed or…
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