For anyone jumping from a stomper starter (mechanical shift starter) to a push button or key position starter (electrical solenoid shift starter), or the reverse, there are a few things to be aware of. Most have been covered here.
If you want to keep the mechanical shift operation (foot pedal actucation), you will need to mount a starter motor, either 6 or 12 volt, with the housing outfitted with electrical contact stub located on top, in the approximate center of the housing.
If you want to use a solenoid-operated electrical contact and shift, then you will need a housing that has a strap-style electrical contactor for the solenoid operation.
The two are mutually exclusive and not interchangeable, BUT......
You can jury-rig some kind of a button the foot pedal will depress that will conplete the electrical circuit to operate the solenoid equipped electrical shift starter mechanism, as Manfighter says he has done. I'd like to see more information and detail on how it was accomplished.
Where and how did you mount the electrical switch so that mashing down on the foot pedal would actuate the electrical switch?
No matter how you push the button (dash mounted button you mash with your finger or hidden button you actuate by mashing the floor pedal) or cloase the circuit (by turning the key to "start"), it is still a solenoid operated electrical shift starter.
That's OK, just realize what it is and what it ain't.
So, how is your electrical button wired?
Do you have to turn the key to "on" in order to get power to the contact button, or is the button "hot" all the time (like the chevy cars were '49 to '52)?
