Thanks to anyone who checks this thread out.

Okay. About a year and a few months ago I installed some Edelbroch shorty headers on my 93 LT1. Not too long after, my stock starter started to go until it finally kicked on me. I would try and start the car and just get a click. Sometimes i would turn the ignition a few times and eventually it would start for me until one day it just died. I thought nothing of it and with a little assitance I was directed towards a mini starter. I bought a mini starter and had it wrapped in aluminum I believe it was to protect from the heat coming off my headers and y-pipe. Maybe 1/2 a year down the road I started getting the same symptoms of my car not starting and myself having to turn the ignition a few times to try and get the car to turn over. Eventually the mini started kicked on my as well. My car had a new motor installed in it this summer, a 383 stroker, and I bought a new mini starter for it. I havn't had the car back for not even 3 weeks now and I am getting the same starter problems. This mini starter I have on the car now is NOT wrapped.

Point is, I believe the problem to be my starter(s) getting heat soaked. I have the headers wrapped but not the y-pipe and the y-pipe bends directly towards the starter. So I figure, with the starter not being wrapped, the y-pipe bending towards the starter, the higher output motor, and teh 100 degree days here in New Jersey....I think the starter is still getting heat soaked.

I have been told to try and get a remote solenoid installed...try wrapping the y-pipe next to the starter, try having a custom heat shield made, and also to wrap the starter.

can anyone enlighten me on what I can and shoudl do and also if what I said about the starter being heat soaked sounds like an accurate guess to what my problem is.

NOTE . I have been told headers give off more heat than manifolds and I only began to have these problems after the Edelbrock headers were installed.


THANKS EVERYONE FOR READING THIS BOOK OF A THREAD I WROTE !!

Giovanni

 

Well, it could still just be coincidence that your starter has gone twice. But if you have the headers wrapped and the starter wrapped... I don't know what else you can do?
I don't hear this problem from too many people who have things wrapped???
I say you look around for a starter, wonder if there's one that is made to last in high heat...

 

yea my stock starter (not original on the car, i mean stock as opposed to aftermarket) died after the headers were installed, the headers were not wrapped at the time......then i got a mini starter and had teh starter wrapped, while the headers were still not wrapped........now i am having symptoms again with a new mini starter, but this current starter is NOT wrapped but now my headers are.....

so my current set up is........


headers = wrapped
y-pipe = not wrapped
mini starter = not wrapped

 

Also, beyond the fact that I have the heat soak issues, when I got the new motor installed it was making my car run hot, close to red, and my stock fans do not turn on until about redline . so I did a fan bypass so that both fans turn on as soon as the ignition is switched on, so I can also attribute my starter probelm to the fact that the starter may not only be getting heat soaked, but is also not getting enough juice from my battery at start up sometimes because the fans are turning on even before i start the car, so what i will do to fix that aspect at least is right now, after i type this post, i am going to go outside and rig up a switch so i can turn the fans on when i want rather than the fans coming on right away before i start the car and sucking life out of teh battery and starter power

 

I am having a similar problem. I bought Summits remote solenoid kit and will be installing it soon.

 

chech how much voltage you have at the purple wire when it is acting up