contact pattern

No, 3.23 R & P will not interchange at all with 3.55 or any other ratio. But What I thought you were saying that your not sure that this 3.23 R & P was a matched set. Like maybe the pinion was from a different R & P set.
Thanks, I blew this apart again for supershafts, probably get a reply in 4 days. the pinion is a 3.55 as ring but with no identifing #`s as to say they match?
#`s on ring say 2070898 3.55-1
MS 29 2 8 72 2
#`s on pinion say 3507397
3.55
Has your opinion changed any with the new pattern?