On The Little gremlin drag car . Optima battery in back . Welder cable sized battery cables and still had hot restart problems , Like sitting in the staging lanes waiting for track crew to clean up the mess from another bullet proof gm 10 -12 bolt blowing up right offa the line . Just put a 9 inch in for petes sakes . I had been to some all AMC days in states . Hebron Ohio , Beaver Springs and asked guys what they were using for a mini starter . I bought the same one offa ebay . Still hot restart problems . WTF ???? I,m at hebron and there was a guy there with a lifted jeep running low 12,s . I asked him if I could slide under it and actually look at his starter . I dentical to mine . My Trini Chick says take a picture with your phone . We had a really good starter altenator rebuilder shop in Barrie . I took the starter to him and he tests it and check the numbers . Its a 4 cyl mitsubushi gear reduction starter with an adapter plate . Again WTF ??? Looking at the pictures the sticker wasnt quite the same on mine . Turns out I had bought a chinese knock off from ebay . I spent the extra bucks and bought one right from the starter company . Problem solved
Now a days there are countless knock off parts on internet . It sux