New 4.56 Rick's Richmond rear gear set to become 4.57 for greater strength

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10-17-2003, 10:19 AM

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Originally posted by JL
I've been talking to some people to find a shop who can do the gear replacement locally and it's strange that one person told me yesterday when I told him about this change that the less teeth is worse than more. The 32-7 will be weaker than the 41-9. I think what he was saying was that with less teeth, there will be more force need to be applied and thus weakening the gear. Does this make sense?

It makes sense, but our Ring gear is so small compared to GM, FORD, etc. Side by side (GM to Honda) the 4.57 gear will still have smaller teeth. Richmond has been making gears for NHRA, NASCAR for a number of years with a number of the top teams still using their stuff. These guy (Richmond) only make gears and they warrenty them too.