redbird555

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Hi guys last year my 10 year old stock starter crapped out, I bought one of the ebay knock offs as advance wants 170 for a rebuilt and a new delco is around 200 and change. Now its 10 months later and surprise surprise the ebay one is taking a crap....

I ran across a thread on here where a member used an ls3 starter on his project (l99/t56) in a c4 vette. The ls3 starter can be had brand new for 120 bucks from ac delco. Does anyone see an issue with running the stock ls3 starter? The connector pigtail is a little different but thats not a big deal. I'm just wondering if the mounting location and all would be the same?

1 FMF

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last i knew the starters among all the chevy Gen 3 and 4 engines including marine engines all had the same mounting pattern and same nose cone. only difference was whether the bolt pattern, for the 2 bolts that hold the starter to the block, in the nose cone was straight across or staggered. I forget which is which, the starter in my 4 cyl on my boat is the same as on my 2002 LS1 except for the bolt pattern. and technically if you have a starter now you can take that nose cone off and put it on the new starter.
The starters are all PG260M. the length of the body/motor has varied, the longer ones are more powerful I think 1.4kw or 1.7kw. also the thing that usually craps out is the electromagnet solenoid on the starter. the armature and brushes and gears inside are basically bulletproof.