I am test fitting my GM style 621 11" flywheel bellhousing and notice that the nose of my starter I have on it hits the bellhousing before it can line up. I also checked if the nose of the starter fit in to the NOS GM flywheel inspection cover hole and it does not. I have the staggered bolt pattern starter and rechecked the flexplate for the powerglide tranny and it is a 168 tooth flywheel like it should be. I looked at advance auto parts website and found they have different starters for manual transmission and powerglides. Am I assuming right that these two have different size starter noses.

OK did a search on the site and found this written by pdq67. HEY pdq67, I guess I will need a the smaller cast iron snout starter for my application?

Thanks

"There's basically only about four of them out there.

The old cast-iron early ones with the mounts on the sides and bottomed opened. (At that time, there was no tranny mount)...

The 409/Vette aluminum one that is open on the bottom.

The newer, little aluminum one for the 153 tooth f/p and f/w, closed on the bottom, and

The newer, big aluminum one for the 168 tooth f/p and f/w also closed on the bottom..

I forget what sizes the early cast-iron one or the 409 are, but suspect both are big...

And remember that the big ones take starters with staggered mounting bolts and the smaller ones take starters with the mounting bolts across from one another!!!

AND check starter snout sizes too b/c there are bigger aluminum snouts and smaller cast-iron snouts on the different starters too so you are forwarned..

pdq67"

Interestingly enough there is a discussion about starters on Team Chevlle that may be worth looking at.

http://www.chevelles.com/forums/showthread.php?t=211493

ZL14ME

Someone correct me if I am wrong but dont the mini starts like in the picture below fit call SBC configurations? They have multiple bolt positions, no nose to get in the way, and shims.

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c356/emperor91108/454-54-20001.jpg

Interestingly enough there is a discussion about starters on Team Chevlle that may be worth looking at.

http://www.chevelles.com/forums/showthread.php?t=211493

ZL14ME

Thanks ZL14ME, it answered my question as I thought.:thumbsup:

Someone correct me if I am wrong but dont the mini starts like in the picture below fit call SBC configurations? They have multiple bolt positions, no nose to get in the way, and shims.

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c356/emperor91108/454-54-20001.jpg

The last Tilton I had was a universal ,like the one displayed. The GM mini is the one that has a nose on it.