Hey R3V how do my starter wires look?

[Wishno87]

This picture should be put in the sticky. Seems to get asked a lot.

Yes! Thanks so much!

That was exactly what I was looking for!

[Adrian_Visser]

The starter on the left is the one i used, its hard to get the harness starter wires wrong since usually the ring terminals on them match the size of each lug.

Green/Black - Ground for Unloader relays
Red - Power direct from power junction block (firewall)
Black/Yellow - +12v from Ignition Switch

Yeah that picture sums up a lot of questions asked on here. I second the sticky vote.

[Schwarz325]

I still don't get where the black wire off the firewall has to go, i understand that the red one , the guy marked comes off of the e36 harness, no ? haha sorry i'm slow sometimes

[herlsy]

The black wire is the stock e30 wire that terminates into the battery clamp, essentially its the same as the Red wire that comes with the e36/e34 harness.

You could put both the black (e30) and the red (e36) on the same starter lug if you wanted, i chose to just cut my black wire off of the battery junction clamp and used connected the e36 one to the clamp with the bolts already there.

[Schwarz325]

So you can put the thick red one, the thick black one and the alternator wire all on the same stud on the starter?

[Wishno87]

Just went to start the car for the first time. No bannana. The starter spins but does not touch the flywheel.

[Schwarz325]

sounds like the bendix is not engaging, can you hear the bendix retract back..it's a really loud click?

[Wishno87]

sounds like the bendix is not engaging, can you hear the bendix retract back..it's a really loud click?

Well it just barely touches sometimes. It seems like the starter gear is popping out but not enough to touch the flywheel. I'm using a euro 323 flywheel.

[Wishno87]

So it turned out the teeth on the starter was not compatible with the ring gear on my 323 flywheel. The starter i pulled had wide fat teeth and the one i put in had thin sharper teeth. The outsides of both looked the same and they both had the same connections.

[Schwarz325]

You get it started?

[Wishno87]

Yup it cranks and starts just fine now.

[LTDScott]

Sorry to bring back a thread from the dead, but I can't find any info regarding how to wire up the older style starter shown on the right here.



Obviously big cable goes to the top stud, medium size (yellow/black) goes on the smaller stud on the right, but what about the black/green unloader wire? I have a fully gutted race car with no electronics in the car at all (except gauges), so do I even need the unloader?

[Alpine 7even]

I'd Also like to know!

[328ijunkie]

On 87 and below cars, the unloader relay is wired internal to the body harness.

[Habla]

I'd just like to say that this thread got my engine to fire. I fucked up and wired both small leads to the ground post on my m50 starter, so I had no trigger contact. I remembered that I did that after seeing this. I spent almost 2 hours fixing the problem (didn't take the manifold off) and the starter kicked the engine and it fired right up!

Cheers,
-Peter