Starter Booster, I hate to revisit this topic, but... Options

[black914]

I have found this topic through a search but my question remains unanswered! I went down to the Queen City yesterday to do a repair on my son's 924S. The trip is essentially 85 miles of 65 miles per hour non-stop driving. When I arrived and rested for about thrity minutes, we decided to go get something to eat first, got in the 914, turned the ignition switch and no turnover. The fuel pump was operating but the starter was not getting the signal. I let it cool for a while, attempted to crank it again and it fired right away. We ran a few errands and made about three stops requiring the engine to be turned off and restarted and I encountered no problems. Went home later in the day around 6:30PM, traveled the miles at 65 steady for about one hour, stopped to get a cola, got back in, attempted to crank it, but again, nothing. Fortunately a good samaritan help me push it off and I got it cranked okay. I got home safely.

I notice that Bosch has encountered this problem before and they have offered a starter booster kit that cures the hot starter problem by boosting the voltage to the starter. My 914 has a remanufactured starter (don't know the age because it was installed by the previous owner).

Would this cure my problem? Apparently it has been a problem in the past or Bosch would not have offered a cure.

Comments?

[jsteele22]

So my car already came with a relay and is having the hot start problem I was confused at first when I saw references to a "Ford Solenoid", which I thought meant that people were removing the Porsche/VW/Bosch starter solenoid from their starter and replacing it with something from Ford. Then I gathered that what they really meant was a "Ford Relay", which does me no good as I already have a relay.

Some people look down on the relay as a bandaid or cheap fix, but to me it makes perfect sense. Any time you want to deliver power to a load (like the starter), you don't want to dissipate it somewhere else (like along 20 feet of crusty old wire.) The other "easy fix" which I haven't tried yet, and which also makes perfect sense, is to clean up the ground and battery connections : the same idea, really - just reduce unneccesary resistance from the circuit.

I noticed that I had hot start problems on Saturday (beautiful warm weather) but not on Sunday (chilly, wet weather), so I would imagine some sort of heat shielding (but not quite as nice as Brant's) would be of some help.

But I think the real solution (apart from buying a new starter...) would be a cable that pulls a spring-loaded hammer back and then lets go. Think we can get a group buy together ???