Don, you are the third person I know of who has had nothing but problems with those little starters not fitting right. I think it will be a cold day in you-know-where before I ever run one of those. My coupe puked the starter in front of a friends garage one day last Spring. In about ten minutes we had it off (didn't even have to jack up the car) and in another 20 minutes we were heading back from the local Advance-Discount parts store with a $28 remanufactured starter. Bolted it on and problem solved; no shims, no adjustments, nothing special.

Henry, I ordered a Holley blue pump and put it on a big-block powered truck one time because I was told that gas hog would need the volume. It was so noisy (growl, roar, growl) it drove everyone nuts who rode in the truck. We eventually changed it to an ordinary AC Delco electric pump. It was quiet (tick, tick, tick), did the job just fine, and replacements were available almost everywhere.