Like David mentioned, you get what you pay for. The cheap gearsets do and will break. The stock 1.76 gear will break and it is just a matter of when. You might run it for 2 years and you may break it in 2 weeks. The cost of pulling and replacing the gear set and the potential race winnings that it may cost you are worth the initial investment up front. I see a lot of people not want to spend the money on the transmission and it costs them twice as much to replace and repair what can break in a transmission failure.