Starter doesn't want to engage flywheel

[bigwillywallace]

Hey Guys, I recently put in a new s50 engine turbo'd and swapped out my auto to a manual tranny. I went to start the car and the starter just spins freely. I took off the starter and bench tested it and it was fine. It seems like the flywheel is too far for the gears to engage? I am at a lost is their a spacer or something that i may have put on wrong to push the flywheel farther away? Any help would be awesome!
thanks

[mitchelrl]

Are you positive that the starter was installed properly?

Did you install a new clutch/flywheel?

[bigwillywallace]

Yes i did a spec stage 3

[Nik1703]

thats what happens when you Frankenstein a car.

[mitchelrl]

Yes i did a spec stage 3

what clutch and flywheel?

I'm betting that your flywheel doesn't have a big enough diameter for the start teeth to reach it.

[mitchelrl]

Time to push start it! =P

[bigwillywallace]

if that is the case what flywheel do you recommend shouldn't any work?

[mitchelrl]

Which flywheel do you have in there presently? Did you try to keep the one from your automatic transmission?

[bigwillywallace]

No i used the one that came from the rebuilt engine

[mitchelrl]

ok.

go measure the diameter of your flywheel from tooth to tooth.

[bigwillywallace]

I will anyway to easily do that without dropping the tranny lol
in millimeters?

[milKt]

What motor was the rebuilt engine?
Which tranny are you using? ZF or Getrag?

[mitchelrl]

I will anyway to easily do that without dropping the tranny lol
in millimeters?

Unfortunately no man.

It sounds like your starter isn't engaging, do you have another one to try?

[bigwillywallace]

it it the same as my old one an s50 bored out I am using a 95 zf tranny I took the starter to 2 places to test they adn they said it was good both times