Reinventing the wheel is usually not a good idea. If a 1 piece driveline would be correct, why didn't they manufacture it that way in the first place? You will need to go with a much larger diameter tube and very expensive yokes and U joints to get the required stiffness and resistance to vibration. The U joint geometry will get very tricky, also.
Jerry

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