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From  my restoration Camaro book I have here it does show the Starter number for a BBC 1969 (Listed as a Chevrolet engine... they indicate that the starters vary little until 1980) to be 1108418 and the Ring Gear to be 14".

So my questions are:

1) Is the Starter I have the right one... if is or isn't where is that number located at to be sure.
2) Those of you that own a 1969 Camaro does your starter have the brackets to help hold the starter in place? (Mine does not have anything other than the 2 bolts from the bottom.
3) How many shims is to many, or is there a limit to how many?
4) Is there a set distance that is recommended to start from and shim out? I have not found any info on this.

I think I have the Starter number, now ih ave have to answer a few more and maybe I will hear her purr this week hopefully.

I have been restoring my '69 Z/28 for some time now. This weekend I was ready to finally after 2 years fo getting the money together to finally start the motor. Well that all came to a crashin halt after I found the start gear was getting stuck on the flywheel. Its a new starter that was not on the car originally. I am not worried about the numbers matching anymore (the 302 was not in my Z when I bought it years ago, but what was stuffed in it was fine with me). The engine is a 427BBC nothing it different than the starter. I just rebuilt the motor, didn't make any extra changes to it. I did try to shimming the starter the the only 3 shims I had, but shimming it made it worse. I am afraid the starter is the wrong tooth for the flywheel or shimming it more will cause tooth breakage or more serve issues. I don't know what the stock flywheel Diameter was on this engine and I don't have many books to find this info. The internet used to be good source, but now all you get from your search is what someone is selling and i don't need to know that.

What research I have found thus far is that I either need a starter with the number 1108418 or 1108400. I don't know what I presently have and the orignial one is long gone since I bought this starter over 3 years ago prior to installing the engine into the car. I had high hopes in hearing her run this weekend, but once small problem has totally ruined this weekend.

Any info I can provide you with i will sure try too. I do know the engine came out of a '69 Caprice.