There is an insulation wrap made for starters that should protect it from the
heat. Anybody else ever use it?
Bob
David & Candy Pina wrote:
> When I bought my race 2000 from F.A.R.. Performance, it had a lawn tractor
> battery in it in the stock battery location. That's what I have reinstalled
>in
> the car. It works pretty well, except right after real hard running. The
> starter gets overheated from the close headers.
> David Pina
>
> Gregg Robinson wrote:
>
> > Gary and all,
> >
> > That picture of the battery brought back memories for me. Back in the late
> > 70's I raced a SCCA 510 and a good friend of mine raced 2L (that I got to
> > race a few times myself - WOW) that had come from Jack's stable. It had the
> > same type of very small and under powered battery. Yes the point was to get
> > some weight out, most importantly off the front end as the roadsters can
> > understeer as has been talked about at length here. There was a rule early
> > on that required the battery to remain in the stock location. When that rule
> > changed we put a larger battery in the trunk. This gave better re-start
> > assurance (the owner had a habit of spinning a stalling every few races....
> > Sorry Steve... ) and improved the balance of the car.
> >
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