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  • Craig C.
    Frequent User
    • July 31, 1999
    • 51

    C3 Starter ID Help Needed

    I am rebuilding the engine in my 1969 427/390 w/ auto transmission and need help identifying the starter that came with the engine when I bought the car (used). It is a Delco Remy starter w/ part number 1109072 and date code 8J22. Since I have a July 1969 engine build date this is obviously not the starter which originally came with this car. Can anyone identify the origin of this starter, and let me know what the correct starter part number for my car is?

    Thanks in advance,

    Craig #32671
  • Joe L.
    Beyond Control Poster
    • February 1, 1988
    • 43193

    #2
    Re: C3 Starter ID Help Needed

    Craig----

    The starter that you have was used for 1978-80 Buicks with 350 or 403 cid engine, 1979 Cadillac Eldorado and Seville with 350 or 425 engine, 1978-80 Oldsmobile with 350 cid engine, or 1978-80 Pontiac with 350 or 403 cid engine. Given its date code, I'd say it was originally used for a 1979 model of one of the aforementioned.

    Keep in mind that this starter has undoubtedly been through a commercial rebuilder's operation. Thus, all that may remain of the original starter is the frame (i.e. the part with the numbers on it). The numbers are, thus, completely meaningless. In the Corvette world, of course, the numbers are the most important thing (if not the ONLY thing that matters). In the world of replacement parts and commercial rebuilders, the numbers on the frame mean virtually nothing. For them, it's configuration and what's inside that counts. Lately, some commercial rebuilders have started obliterating the original numbers on the cases of starters and alternators to avoid "confusion". Believe me, when these things go through their operations, they'll obliterate a number that makes a rare Corvette starter or alternator worth, perhaps, $1,000, just as fast and just as easily as they will a run-of-the-mill 1979 Oldsmobile starter. They take no prisoners.

    Anyway, the original starter number for your application is 1108400. If you want one, you better get one before some commercial rebuilder obliterates it forever.
    In Appreciation of John Hinckley

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