Thread: For Don Shilady

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NTFDAY, I checked the first three letters of my engine block serial No. and they match up to the L48 series. My block definitely does not have a boss on the side of the block for a starter bracket but I found a picture on the Internet that shows the upper mount hiding behind the stock cast iron exhaust manifold. Is there any chance you can send a picture of how your upper mount of the bracket is bolted on, maybe to the back of an exhaust manifold (unlikely due to heat transfer)? Maybe you could just feel for the upper bolt when the engine is cold if a photo is too difficult? I would like to add a steel strap from the starter to my block somehow to triangulate the starter mount but I have shorty tube headers. Attaching to a pan bolt just asks for a leak but maybe a strap to the forward valve cover hold-down or to a header bolt would work. My intuition is that the lack of a starter bracket is probably 75% of my problem but there are few attachment points.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder