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grafty99

Member Since: 15 Aug 2012
Location: North Devon
Posts: 4785

Starter motors

I've been looking through starter motors and wonder if there is any benefit to the high torque ones or just a bog standard £60 one would do the trick?

Mine has just died and don't know if it would be worth upgrading whilst I'm at it?

5.0L Griffith based engine so could probably benefit from a bit more starting oomph. Having said that it never struggled before.

Any recommendations would be much appreciated

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31st Dec 2022 11:45am

grafty99

Member Since: 15 Aug 2012
Location: North Devon
Posts: 4785

Well, incase anyone was wondering, I bought a powerlite reduction gear starter.

Very impressed with it and definitely more starting power

5th Jan 2023 5:01pm

Procta

Member Since: 03 Dec 2016
Location: Sunderland
Posts: 5161

if there is an option to fit upgraded parts, when stuff dies, i always do if i can afford it.

what you want to do, is look at fitting uprated alternator and a heavy duty diesel battery to the v8. Did this sort of thing to the rover metro vvc i had, that it fired over with a simple flick with the key

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12th Feb 2023 2:27pm

Leamreject

Member Since: 19 Dec 2020
Location: Middle Earth - Leamington Spa
Posts: 970

If it’s cost effective to upgrade, I’m all for it

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