I can make gears in my shop but I do not have the type of heat treating oven it takes to properly heat treat and case harden gears.
Heat treating gears takes many hours in a special type of heat treating oven. Heat treaters charge by the hour for oven use whether the oven has one part or a hundred in it. This makes small batches of gears unaffordable.
Titanium is too soft and cannot be heat treated to a hardness that is required for gears.
I see three problems with Suzuki's gears:
1. The feed rate on the gear hobbing machines appears to be set on high resulting in a very rough surface on the gear teeth or the hobbing cutters they are using need to be of a better design .
2. The gears blanks appear to be cast and I think that the material is not as good as it should be.
3. The case hardening thickness is not consistent from one batch of gears to the next.