Originally Posted by
Juglenaut
You don’t need more than 150 oz of torque in a 1/10th scale. I came from a day when 80 was overkill and now why 450+.. is it numbers like contrast ratio on tvs or ?
It comes down to what you are doing with your RC mainly. And a servo saver keeps the servo from destroying steering geometry components such as bellcranks and hubs, casters, spindles...
It seems larger torque numbers strain the hubs unnecessarily, and other steering geometry, wheels, casters, etc from
over binding torque holding power.
There has been a trend for bigger torque over the years and I see why and it is a good thing but it can be a downfall as well.
Servo savers make sense for bashers, but they have a tendency to create slop and/or create centering issues for some folks... many people will replace the springs on their savers with lock collars to prevent center/slop problems. 1/10 is also a very broad range because there are many 1/10 platforms that are based on 1/8 buggy designs.
While not a 1/8 based design I can speak of first hand experience where I stripped my Savox 1258 (166oz-in) on the very first battery pack on my ET410 at a high traction turf track:
https://wwwcdn.teknorc.com/wp-conten...structions.pdf 
Many quality kits will provide a recommended servo strength, I have since been running a 277oz-in servo in my ET410 and haven't stripped a gear with that servo yet, but I have snapped the plastic ackermann bar and needed to upgrade it to an aluminum steering rack.