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| By Dave Shoe - 07/10/2003 12:48:55 PM; IP 12.2.11.131 |
I've found that rebuilt starters just don't have the torque to crank a performance FE when it's hot. A new ministarter will allow cranking when hot. I prefer the three bolt ministarters specifically designed with the FE in mind, but many places will sell a 2-bolt starter in an FE appkication, since they are the common 302/460 type of starter and they work fine.
An alternative which will let the stock starter crank when hot is to install an ignition amplifier which has a circuit which retards the ignition timing while the starter is activated. MSD and others offer this feature on higher-end modules.
Historically I've always used my double pumper Holley to intentionally flood the motor when hot so it'd crank easy and spin up to speed, whereupon it's start everytime. This always worked, but was a mediocre solution, and the rebuilt starters never lasted more than a year or two.
I run heavy gauge battery cables and a high capacity battery (lots of lead), so current availability was not the problem.
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