300 starter question
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300 starter question
Does anyone know where i can buy a gear reduction high torque starter or maybe another motor that uses same starter i have a high compression 300 its burnt 6 starters up in a year
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Hi gs2.
How high of compression do you have?
You shouldn't be burning up starters unless you have the wrong starter. Are you sure you have a starter for your transmission?
There's a different starter for a manual vs. an automatic transmission.
If you have an automatic and have a manual starter,. or visa versa, you'll burn it up.
You also might have too much timing advance on start up, which might cause some kickback.
Otherwise, nothing about a built up motor with high compression will have anything to do with the starter.
Keep us posted
How high of compression do you have?
You shouldn't be burning up starters unless you have the wrong starter. Are you sure you have a starter for your transmission?
There's a different starter for a manual vs. an automatic transmission.
If you have an automatic and have a manual starter,. or visa versa, you'll burn it up.
You also might have too much timing advance on start up, which might cause some kickback.
Otherwise, nothing about a built up motor with high compression will have anything to do with the starter.
Keep us posted
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I dont know the precise compression amount i bought the motor already built and im in the process of rebuilding it now it has flat top forged aluminium pistons come up flush with top of the block halman moody custom grind solid flat tappet cam head is majorly ported and polished the starter i am using is stock manual for 76 f150
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Hi gs2,
Please edit and use some punctuation. That is really difficult to read. You'll always get better help when people don't have to work to decipher what you're trying to say.
Either way, your build doesn't sound like anything crazy, and won't affect your starter, or wear it out unless you have a timing issue. But, you'll hear the kickback when you try to start it (the starter will really struggle). This is due to too much timing advance at idle.
If you have the correct starter for your transmission, and they're burning up, you probably have an issue with your wiring. Bad grounds can burn up your starter in short order.
Please edit and use some punctuation. That is really difficult to read. You'll always get better help when people don't have to work to decipher what you're trying to say.
Either way, your build doesn't sound like anything crazy, and won't affect your starter, or wear it out unless you have a timing issue. But, you'll hear the kickback when you try to start it (the starter will really struggle). This is due to too much timing advance at idle.
If you have the correct starter for your transmission, and they're burning up, you probably have an issue with your wiring. Bad grounds can burn up your starter in short order.
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I know my wiring is right it cranked the stock motor for years. The new race motor is what is killing the starters. Im timing it like i would a stock motor. I dont understand how that could be wrong because it doesnt run hot does not miss does not backfire and it cranks up just fine. After about a month the starter will stop kicking the bendix out all 6 have done the same thing. Auto parts stores told me the starter shows sighns of normal wear out. To me that means a stock starter has to work harder to spin the high compression motor over speeding up normal wear.
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When i bought the motor the race team was running a triple disc clutch. The flywheeel is alot smaller than a regular flywheel and bolts to a automatic flywheel. So it had two flywheels in the bellhousing. The starter they used was a mini high tourque starter but it fits automatic flywheel. I am using a stock manual transmission and stock manual flywheel.
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This is the starter that came with motor fits auto flywheel
Triple disk clutch and mini flywheel bolted to auto flywheel
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