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Gio93z · 08-16-2005, 10:45 AM

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

08-16-2005, 10:45 AM	#1
Gio93z Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: New Milford, North Jersey Posts: 129 iTrader: (3)	Starter Heat Soak Problem ! 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 __________________ 1993 z28 Camaro