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Originally Posted by LJ851
That starter ring gear got Hot !!
What are the holes for in the gear? They sure don’t leave much meat left.
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Yea, there were two attempts starting the car that ground on the ring gear rather than firing it up, which I'm thinking may have partially lead to this problem.
Some of this is getting ahead of myself, but this was the ring gear Patrick Motorsports told me to buy. It's for an early 75-77 930. It wasn't until after this that we found out that the only difference between the early and late 930 ring gears are the holes for the limit pins that the early 930 pressure plates have but the later ones don't need. The Patrick Motorsports pressure plates also don't need the holes for the limit pins (which are in the completely wrong spots to be functional anyways.
It's just a comedy of errors, some are my fault, others are from advice from others, all could have been avoided. And I'll explain more whenever I get a chance to write the next post. Hopefully this will help others doing a shortened G50 swap in the future and avoid the problems I ran into.