DragStuff

are you saying your running 4 gauge from the truck to the starter if so i would change that to atleast 1 gauge 4 gauge is to small for that distance in my eye's i always run welding cable 1gauge so not to lose anything from the battery to the starter well thats if i under stand you right if not disregard
rob

chpcamaro wrote:are you saying your running 4 gauge from the truck to the starter if so i would change that to atleast 1 gauge 4 gauge is to small for that distance in my eye's i always run welding cable 1gauge so not to lose anything from the battery to the starter well thats if i under stand you right if not disregard
rob

No sorry. I have a solenoid on the firewall. Coming from the trunk to the solenoid it is 1 gauge, as well as the battery ground. The 4 gauge is from the solenoid on the firewall to the starter.

Ok, go down to a welding store and get your self some #2 copper welding wire. run this from your battery all the way to your starter,or if your using a bulkhead up front then you can use a #4 wire to the starter from your bulkhead..

Also use a #2 wire for the ground to the chassis and another one from the block to the chassis.

Get your self a optma red top and a battery tender and plug it in when you get home from racing and leave it plug in till you go again...

And do your self a favor and get an alternator on there... I use Municipal electric he can make you anything you want as he made me an Nissan alt that is the size of a large coffee cup and puts out 48 amps and 14.5 volts...Works like a charm and right now it's 4 years old and not one problem!!! He also made me a starter same results...No problems

bracketracer wrote:Ok, go down to a welding store and get your self some #2 copper welding wire. run this from your battery all the way to your starter,or if your using a bulkhead up front then you can use a #4 wire to the starter from your bulkhead..

Also use a #2 wire for the ground to the chassis and another one from the block to the chassis.

Get your self a optma red top and a battery tender and plug it in when you get home from racing and leave it plug in till you go again...

And do your self a favor and get an alternator on there... I use Municipal electric he can make you anything you want as he made me an Nissan alt that is the size of a large coffee cup and puts out 48 amps and 14.5 volts...Works like a charm and right now it's 4 years old and not one problem!!! He also made me a starter same results...No problems

Already have 1 gauge going to a bulkhead a 1 gauge to the ground, but I am a bit worried I may not have a good ground to be honest with you. I also don't have the block grounded. I will get these corrected and see if that helps.

The ground could be your hole problem ...Take your battery out and make sure it's fullie charged and have it load tested at your local repair shop

If you kept on killing that battery it may be finished

i never under stood the whole idea about using the remote starter solenoid on the fire wall when the solenoid on the starter still has to work but now you have 2 to cause a problem. i have never had a problem with a starter not working that i thought that i would have to use a second solenoid i must be missing something??

The advantage that I see is that once your car is started there are no hot wires running to the starter, nothing to short out or get burnt by a hot header. The wire from the furd solenoid is hot only when starting.

Bob West wrote:The advantage that I see is that once your car is started there are no hot wires running to the starter, nothing to short out or get burnt by a hot header. The wire from the furd solenoid is hot only when starting.

X2.

ok i was wondering why thank you for the info i thought it was strange to use just for starting
rob

Finally got around to hooking ground cable up to block and it looks like it has made a difference. Car had not been started in about 3 weeks, but I did have the battery fully charged. Pumped the gas twice hit the key and voila, she started right up and ran like a dream. Turned it off, hit the key again and started right up with no kickback. I hope this has fixed the problem.