[Eljaro]

Excaliber,

I also had been living with a weird sounding starter noise and thought that was ok. After adjusting the starter to the belhousing the starter sounds like any modern car: quiet and smooth.
I wonder how many cobra owners are happy with what they have while their starter is noisily munching away at their ring gear.

So I would advise anybody that if your starter noise is different from your everyday cars noise, have the pinion to ring gear play checked. It is most probably off.