High torque starter motor

[graham.codling]

Anyone have these fitted to their minis find the standard starter motor not up to the job on my 8 port.would like any comments before investing in one of these .thanks

[Red Mist]

Brise starter motors are a little pricey, but fantastic.

http://www.brise.co.uk/Austin_starter_motors.html

[rich@minispares.com]

graham


buy one of the powerlite/autolec ones - they are not much more than a standard new starter and are well up to the job - you just need to be careful if you have a oil cooler as the main lead bolts to the front, not the end.

mine has been ace on the race car, you can get them in inertia and pre engaged tooth form.

the brise ones are utter rubbish, ive mentioned on here before about the grief I have had with mine over the years, I put one of my old ones on the gtm as a normal pre engaged one wouldn't fit (which to be fair to the brise one, its so slim it went in no problems) but it has no duty cycle, so if you crank it, it overheats and wont work until its cooled down, or if it gets too hot (just from been in situ) it trips the heat soak and it wont work.

ive discovered that its impossible to try and bump start a gtm as you cannot get back in it once its rolling, so I have to just sit and wait until the starter want to play ball again....very frustrating!!!!

[YMJ]

Power lite is the way to go. Well made and whip the engine round effortlessly. If you're running anything like a non standard application, the current (Chinese?) exchange units from your local factor can't even guarantee to work straight out of the box!

[graham.codling]

Thanks very much for the advice I will try A powerlite

[graham.codling]

Thanks ymj and Richard received powerlite starter fitted and very pleased with it spins motor over no problem especially when cold .good result

[Vegard]

Do you sell these Rich?

[rich@minispares.com]

Do you sell these Rich?

of course


ever the salesman!

[ianh1968]

My experience of this type of starter was that I bought 2 from MiniSpares, sort of "on approval"...

One was a light-weight mainly ally bodied type, and the other was sort of "square-section" and
was steel/heavier.

I found that the light-weight one would not fit on my engine with a 123/Tune distributor
fitted, so I used the heavier square one and sent the fancy one back. From memory, the
angled solenoid part was the bit that fouled the dizzy.

I am running a too-high 13:1 C/R on a 1480 and the starter has no problem turning it over.