Mini starters for 5.7

Hmmm,

Thanks for the additional pics, and explanations. Based upon your pictures and explanation I have a few more questions and suggestions, thoughts, ramblings, and perhaps just random crap spewing from my keyboard.

Thanks for the interior pics, with the cut up tunnel, it shows me that you are probably not going to gain all that much more height in moving the engine up. It looks like you MIGHT gain 2.5 cm but that's about it. I don't think you'll gain the 5 cm I was thinking. And from the new pics you posted it doesn't look like moving the motor up or down, right or left is going to gain you the space need to make that starter fit. You really need a starter that is approximately 12 cm shorter. I just don't think anyone makes anything that small. :(


Considering the expense of an aftermarket bell housing, clutch, flywheel, and all the related components you might want to sharpen your pencil and consider a couple of different options. I am not really sure what parts from the 6060 you could use with a Quicktime bell housing. My complete GUESS is that you'd have to replace the clutch, flywheel, throwout bearing, and slave cylinder, but I could be WRONG. Considering the bell housing is over 500 USD, throwing parts at the problem might get really expensive really quick.

First Option: Buy the bell housing and related hardware and hope you can get it to fit on the passenger side of the car. (AKA the American Drivers Side) I think regardless of what you end up doing your looking at custom headers.

Second Option: Convert to a front mounted rack an pinion setup. I noticed that you already posted a couple of questions are Reillymotorsports.com. I'm actually surprised he hasn't responded to your questions yet. From his earlier posts it looks like the alter-k-tion is a viable option, though it is very expensive.

Since you only need the rack mounted up front, you might consider simply swapping the steering knuckles (spindles) from side to side and mounting the rack in approximately the same location as the factory sway bar. You'd need a new rack, but rebuilt racks can be purchased for few hundred dollars, so depending on your fab skills, this might be the cheapest way to go. Of course you'd have to make sure that your geometry was correct otherwise bump steer might be a real problem, and incorporating a sway bar might also be tricky.

Best of luck thanks for the clarification.

Regards,

Joe Dokes