I have a 1971 Lemans with a Mild Chevy 350, including ceramic coated headers, 11:1 compression, etc. Car starts fine and runs. Drive it around for a while and it won't hardly crank. Not enough cranking speed for the engine to fire. Then it floods the plugs with gas.
Thinking it was a typical Chevy hot start problem, I put a heat shield on the solenoid, didn't fix it...then I put a Ford solenoid on the inner fender...still didn't fix it. Now what?
Could the starter motor be bad? It was a reman starter that came with the RTR motor. Does header heat affect the starter motor as well as the solenoid?
Another person suggested the battery cable needed to be bigger gauge...like welding wire, with more strands because of the long distance from the opposite side of the motor to the Chevy starter. If that were the case wouldn't it be a problem all the time, and not just on restarts?
Help me with the cure, so I can drive and not be "stranded", literally!
Thanks,
Bill
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