OEM Starter for 1969 340

Thanks guys for your advice. Here's the rest of the story:

I did take a reman starter with the ears and had the local starter rebuild shop try to swap out the armatures but they told me they were slightly different diamenters.

I ended up finding an NOS armature and took it back to the repair shop. They installed it and it still didn't work. So obviously it wasn't a flat spot or a bad armature. They gave up right then and there.

I took it apart and could see that the trouble was likely in the solenoid- the current wasn't being passed thru to the motor because of a worn out disk on the end of the copper bolt. I thought that that would have been the first thing they would have checked. I put too much faith in the expertise of that dump.

But I still want that original Mopar starter sound. So now I am trying to make the eared 1.8 kW starter fit. I tried to move the exhaust pipe over a little but it hits the torsion bar and the solenoid. So I am going to put some dents in the pipe.

What is the best way to do that? As is with a big hammer or get it red hot first.

I'm going to remember Robert Walters starters for future reference.

Thanks.