LS3 Starter???
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Does anyone know if there is a new/different starter for the LS3 compared to a LS1? I just purchased a LS3 T56 combo everything is going relatively smoothly with the install except for the starter, the one that came with the engine and transmission doesn't fit. I have called the company that I got the combo from and said he isn't sure what is wrong. Looking at the starter I am forced to believe one of two things. First, and I hope is the problem, is that I have the wrong starter for an LS3. I have one that is for a LS1. Second, if the starters are the same, is that the block wasn't machined correctly. I really hope that isn't the case. Since I am pretty sure that the starter I have is the same that the manufacture states will fit the engine and the fact that it doesn't is making me think that it is block problem.
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OK. At this point, I am not sure this thread is in the right location. I am doing a swap and was supplied with an LS3 and T56 out of a LS2 GTO. Not sure why, but the GTO got a different bellhousing and a starter that is made buy Mitsubishi. From that I was told all other LSx setups us the same starter and only the GTO got Mitsubishi one. So maybe my question would have been asked in the Conversions & Hybrids form.