Hey Jerry; Not sure that his is the same but my C - 6 trany and bell housing is one piece.
In other words you can not remove the bell housing from the trany.
I also have the small block C - 6, he may have the big block C - 6.
I'm wondering if he has the right starter for that trany, I know that there is at least two differant starters for those. I had the same problem before and called Summits tech department, I think my trany had the bigger flywheel origanaly. Kurt