Higher pinions = safer MMM's? Or no? Someone's lying....

[J57ltr]

Well I am used to 1:1 cars so I use the terminology that is associated with them. You guys confuse me when you say “I’m running 87/17 in an XYZ”. To me that means nothing other than the ratio between the spur and pinion is 5.12:1 but it leaves out the rest of the gear reduction like the transmission or differential gearing. Like in a rock crawler where you might have a 3:1, in the diff a 5.12:1 for pinion and spur and a 2.72 for the transmission, which would be an overall ratio of 41.78:1. You RC guys are weird I guess.

Jeff