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Originally Posted by spenceman72
This is a great thread and has helped me a bunch. Question, on my starter (Delco starter made for 57 Corvettes, go figure?) the wiring was as follows..
Thick black cable from the + battery post. 12 g ? purple wire that runs into the firewall right by the steering wheel and then a red wire, not sure the size but a bit smaller than the purple wire, that is connected to the same terminal, 's'' on the starter as the purple wire and is connected to the positive post on the electric choke of my Edelbrock carb. I haven't read anything about a wire running from the starter to the carb, so I wonder if this is 'normal'? I was having issues with hot starts so I added a heat shield to the carb, and I was having issues with 'no start' when hot so I removed the headers, added some header wrap the the end portion by the starter and a heat shield to the starter.
Since it was starting before perhaps I should just hope that my 'fixes' for the hot start and no start will work and not worry too much about the wiring..although it does bother me when I find wires and connectors that go no where..perhaps I should chase these down and remove?
thanks!
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The purple wire is the solenoid engagement wire and has power only when the key switch is in start and the neutral start switch is in park or neutral. The red wire that is connected there does not belong and does no good for the choke because the choke coil needs 12 volts anytime the engine is running to pull the choke off.
Your mods for the starter may help or you may need to install a remote starter solenoid. If you search for remote starter solenoid in the search box at the top of the page, You will get enough threads to keep you busy for a week.
If you get no joy then post over in the electrical forum and detail your problem and you'll get lots of help. VV