Here is a picture of my remote mount Ford solenoid.
Enjoy

 

I've heard that this can be done to cure the "heat sink" issue. I have a couple of questions:

I'm not exactly sure what the "heat sink" issue is. My guess it high temps (i.e. from headers) cause high resistance in the starter preventing it from turning the engine over. Am I correct?

How does the Ford solenoid attach to the starter?

Does the setup work well?

Thanks.

 

Since installing the ford solenoid I have not had a single problem, in the picture, on the terminal closest to you (black wires) those are the battery wires that used to be on the starter solenoid. On the middle post is the wire that tell the solenoid to let the juice thru, its on the small post on the stock solenoid. And the fat red wire going off the third terminal goes down onto the big terminal on the stock solenoid where the battery used to hook on, from that terminal you hook up a jumper wire that goes to the terminal on the stock solenoid that used to have the small wire that told it when to let the juice thru. My explanation isnt very good, someone else can prolly explain it better, all i know is that im happy i did it!

 

Thanks for the info...

Let me make sure that I understand:

All wires attach to the ford solenoid, as if it were installed on a ford. Then on the gm solenoid we have the high power wire from the ford solenoid with a jumper to the small (trigger) terminal.

Seems pretty simple, not a bad fix for less than $20.

Thanks.

 

ya, thats right, It only cost me $6 or so, cus i bought the solenoid, then got the wire free from a friend.

 

Great, looking forward to trying it.