so everything is hooked up and good buttttttt the cable that goes to the starter is in between of the tubes of the headers


so i was thinking of rerouting the wire but where ever i put it the tube will be touching it? so is there anything thing i could use to cover it?

i was thinking this stuff


the bendy tube use for electrical wires? or is there something else i could use?? please help me guys im going to take it to the exhaust shop tomorrow after we hookup the lokar throttle cable and the lokar throttle bracket!

 

I would re-route tie cable, even if you have to buy a longer one. Also, you will want to fabricated a heat shield for the starter. Headers will cook it.

 

Yeah the stater I was gonna get a heat wrap shield

 

okay so i solve my wire problem, now i have yet another question should be the last one where could i wire up the electric choke wire??

 

All you need to do is look around the engine bay for a wire that's 12v that goes on and off with the key.

Do NOT, however, tie it into any of the wires that tie into the distributor/ignition module. I did that the first time I wired mine up, since they're easy to find over there, and it made my engine run terribly. Took me a few moments to figure out what happened. Just pulled it back off and spliced the original wire back together and it went back to normal.

I think I eventually tied into the hot wire for the windshield wipers.

 

I read a lot of people wire it up to S wire from the alt.

 

I'm not sure, since I haven't looked into that one. Possibly. I know the stock 1bbl was wired to the alt. But it was a specific post that was set to only put out 7v.

If it has 12v, then it should work. Do you have a voltmeter?

 

Do you have the stock 1 bbl carb? As AB said, it is 7V. If you have an aftermarket carb, it will probably be 12V.

The factory choke wire comes from the alternator. I don't recall which terminal.

 

It comes from the alternator so that the choke only receives power and opens when the motor runs. Wired some place else it may start to open as soon as the ignition switch is turned on.

 

This is the issue I run into with how mine's wired. Then again, I usually start it immediately, so I've never been too motivated to change it.

 

So i got to drive my truck and my starter went south this really sucks badly i feel like giving up. Tomorrow i think im gonna start taking the intake and nuts off the studs...but on the other hand man does it drive awesome!! i felt like a hot rodder with the hood off and open headers!

 

That's really frustrating, but you're way beyond the point where you're allowed to give up.

Try one of those mini-torque starters. Word is you can get those off without removing the headers.

Setbacks like that are frustrating, but you're really close.

 

Yeah I shoulda bought one of those but I'm gonna return the one I got from advance and I bought one from napa it's a premium remanufactured I shoulda went with theres in the first place. So this weekend my dad and I are gonna take every thing apart and see if we could get it apart! Hopefully the exhaust and intake gasket is reuseable if not I'm gonna have to buy another one

 

Ya thats why I chose not to use headers, plus about 3 weeks after doing my exhaust my 1 yr old starter fried itself outside of work which wasn't to bad being as it has a lifetime warranty and I was able to get to it. Alot of the remans don't last as long as the originals so one of the smaller starters would in all honesty be worth the investment.

 

True I wish I woulda got a mini but I think this napa will be fine and my duralast one that was on my 300 was five years old and it was still in working condition when I took it off. But I'm gonna order a starter wrap right now off summit