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Al,
Your right on the money,
everything you have said is true and slightly different for different starters.
Tracy uses the manual starter as that is what Ross initially did and it's
carried on from there.
For the Aussie Bellhousing I
uses the Turbo starter but have made allowances for
both.
The Subaru starter will also
mesh with the Mazda ring gear.
The mounting holes are all
different.
The starter snout hole doesn't
need to totally surround the starter, so you can start from the edge, cut a bit
and check for fit and then take out some more.
I liked the optional bolt hole
mount, I didn't think of that. As long as it's held firm at the mount
holes.
I tried to send a photo but it
didn't work, it bounced because of the limits.
George ( down
under)
I am going to copy your starter mounting system. It really makes
since for me using a James cowl with the shark intake under the spinner. I
need the starter moves from the bottom of the engine to the side. Do you
have any words of wisdom as to how to determine the starter position to get the
correct starter gear to ring gear mesh?
Dennis
H.
All I can recall
is doing a lot of very careful measurements. As you know, you need the
engine shaft center to starter shaft center to be the same as it would be in
the original position. Be careful because I seem to recall that I
determined that either the starter shaft centerline is not in the center of
the hole in the plate for the ‘nose’ of the starter housing, and/or that the
center of the starter shaft is not exactly on a line connecting the two
starter mounting bolts.
I measured
everything as carefully as possible; then center-punched where the new hole in
the plate needed to be, and had a machinist friend put in the hole. I
drilled the new hole in the starter mounting flange myself. Things lined
up very well. If need be, you can oversize the new mounting hole a bit
so you can adjust the mesh before tightening down the bolts.
Good
luck,
Al
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