"New CV's" means they were rebuilt with all new bearings and seals, and possibly new bearing yokes on the old axles rather than the original ones. Often re-man just means they took it apart, cleaned everything, maybe replaced *some* of the bearings only if they were completely shot, and then reassembled them with new boots and grease.
The stock front axles are already quite beefy, and are made of heat treated 4130 chromoly from the factory. The DSS axles are made of 300M and are really only for very very serious vehicles. Even they use re-heat treated factory CV's. The fidanza axles I'm slightly skeptical of. They're probably just fine, but the strength increase is likely somewhat marginal since our axles are already solid bars (not hollow tubes like some cars), and our outer CV's are already made of decent chromoly instead of plain steel.
They may be slightly better, and guaranteed new parts, but the money could be better spent on some Raxles and other parts elsewhere, since we do not have the wimpy steel pipe axles found on many cars.
Quoting Mr_Wolfy:
I could buy the CV joints that I need, but since both the inner and outer joints are trash, I might as well buy complete units for both sides.. I would love to buy from satan but he takes 500-700 usd for each complete axle /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/banghead.gif
I allways had bad luck with the remans, not on this car but on my other cars.. and it's not because of my way of driving /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif Thats why I don't wanna use remans, it isn't that fun to change the axles..
It seems that raxle uses new CV joints on their axles! Someone that know how much they cost for FL and FR? Good quality?