I have read all the old posts about using a Summit or Ford solenoid to fire the stock Chevy starter. However, I think that the method presented on the <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.novaresource.com/>http://www.novaresource.com/</A> website, which is the method most of the people posting here are using, is wrong! My reasoning is this: The mod is not replacing the stock solenoid, you can't do that with a Chevy starter. The advantage to the mod is that it delivers more current to the solenoid coil. The drawback to it is that your starter motor current is now passing through 2 sets of contacts in series. As anyone familiar with connectors and switches can tell you, switch contacts have high resistance in comparison to the bolt on connections and 2-4 gauge cable in the circuit, especially after repeated arcing through the switch (from the starter motor's high inductance).
What I propose is to eliminate one set of contacts from the circuit, thereby dropping the overall loop resistance and delivering more power to the starter. This can be done 2 ways: First, you could bypass the contacts on the stock location solenoid and use it only to push out the gear set to engage the flywheel. Unfortunately, this is not a good idea, because you lose the timing inherent in the integrated relay/solenoid on the stock starter and you may begin to spin the starter before the gearset has engaged. This brings me to the second approach. The other way to eliminate one set of contacts, which is what I am proposing, is to eliminate the remote solenoid from the starter power loop. To do this, you leave the heavy cable from the battery to the stock solenoid in place. Then you remove the "start" wire from the "S" terminal on the stock solenoid and connect it to the "S" terminal on the remote solenoid. Then you run a good sized cable (no need for giant, but big is good) from the battery to the "A" terminal of the remote solenoid and more of this good sized cable from the "B" terminal of the remote solenoid to the "S" terminal of the stock solenoid. This setup uses the remote solenoid only to supply power to the stock solenoid and not to the starter motor. It retains the stock property of not spinning the motor until the gear is extended. You also retain the advantages of being able to "bump" the starter from under the hood and wire accessories via the remote solenoid "A" terminal (although to do this, you should use good size cable from the battery).
Can anyone think of any reason why this wouldn't work or why it wouldn' t work better than the setup on the Nova website?
The other alternative is to use an aftermarket starter that throws the gearset out just by the spinning motion and use a purely remote solenoid, which would be like a total Ford setup.
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What I propose is to eliminate one set of contacts from the circuit, thereby dropping the overall loop resistance and delivering more power to the starter. This can be done 2 ways: First, you could bypass the contacts on the stock location solenoid and use it only to push out the gear set to engage the flywheel. Unfortunately, this is not a good idea, because you lose the timing inherent in the integrated relay/solenoid on the stock starter and you may begin to spin the starter before the gearset has engaged. This brings me to the second approach. The other way to eliminate one set of contacts, which is what I am proposing, is to eliminate the remote solenoid from the starter power loop. To do this, you leave the heavy cable from the battery to the stock solenoid in place. Then you remove the "start" wire from the "S" terminal on the stock solenoid and connect it to the "S" terminal on the remote solenoid. Then you run a good sized cable (no need for giant, but big is good) from the battery to the "A" terminal of the remote solenoid and more of this good sized cable from the "B" terminal of the remote solenoid to the "S" terminal of the stock solenoid. This setup uses the remote solenoid only to supply power to the stock solenoid and not to the starter motor. It retains the stock property of not spinning the motor until the gear is extended. You also retain the advantages of being able to "bump" the starter from under the hood and wire accessories via the remote solenoid "A" terminal (although to do this, you should use good size cable from the battery).
Can anyone think of any reason why this wouldn't work or why it wouldn' t work better than the setup on the Nova website?
The other alternative is to use an aftermarket starter that throws the gearset out just by the spinning motion and use a purely remote solenoid, which would be like a total Ford setup.
<font color=green>"I don't have the brains for business. I want to go into politics" -Mao Xinyu </font color=green>
