well this morning was finally nice and cool, so I decided to put the motor in. Got everything ready, motor off the stand and onto the hoist. went to put one of my 2 new to me driveplates on. I got the new ones because my original was totaled and the starion driveplate only had 4 holes for the torque converter and I needed 6. Unfortunately the crank bushing on the starion is much larger than the raider bushing. So now my choices are, drill new holes in the starion driveplate to match the raider torque converter. Or enlarge the bushing hole on one of my new driveplates.

I am thinking that my Starion motor must be an odd ball or my raider is, as I have not heard of this problem on other post.

I'm open for suggestions on which route to go.

He are a couple pictures which might make things more obvious.




the drive plate on the right is the original starion, left is one of the new ones.