reactor2

For those of you who are running the MSD starter (5096), did you need to use any of the supplied shims? And what year 'vette do you have it installed in?

Thanks!

reactor2

Morning bump for a great starter!

Chicago1

3boystoys

Hope it's better than the other junk they make.

baxsom

Careful, I got yelled at by a vendor a few years ago for badmouthing MSD. I mean from their overpriced wires that more than one person has reported not clicking on securely and falling off the plug to coils that fail to the MSD 6AL that I had on my turbo eclipse that overheated while mounted in the trunk. I mean just because my own personal experience with them has been bad with every single product doesn't mean that they are all bad does it?

Chicago1

I had msd wires fail on me and also had a msd dis2 ignition system on my dsm that took a dump at least they refunded my money. I wont buy anything msd anymore. This is what I would look into http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c5-t...very-cool.html

reactor2

I believe that the MSD starter and this starter are actually the same starter.

Chicago1

So ProComp Pro Thunder is a sister company or just different brand name? little confused now

reactor2

Not sure. But I'm pretty sure I read a post from the vendor of the starter you provided a link to that his starter, the pro comp, and the MSD are all the same starter.

3boystoys

What are they going to do? Send someone from Mexico or China to put a bunch on MSD junk in my cars?

Chicago1

ill pm him now

RonSSNova

Procomp is now under new management and the name has changed to Speedmaster

I'm not going to bash MSD, I've never had an issue with their stuff.

Did you change starters to gain clearance?

Ron

Chicago1

here is what saccitycorvette said

"I think ProComp is its own company. MSD and ProComp starters look similar but I don't think they are made by the same company. I could be wrong though.

Christian "


Did some googling and they are indeed different companies.

C5 Pete

I had an MSD starter on my White Z with Kooks headers.

The same starter won't fit my new car with American Racing Headers.

It worked great for me though.

reactor2

I have the old style starter, which is prone to breaking, and if it does it will also break the block, essentially rendering the block junk as you won't be able to bolt a starter to it (insurance companies have totaled cars for just this reason). This starter, like the new style GM starter, will not break and, thus, not break the block. This one also sounds cool.

reactor2

Did you have to shim it at all or did you just bolt it up as is?

C5 Pete

Just bolted it up. No shims.

reactor2

Awesome, that's what i'll do then. Thanks for the response! Performing the check they do in their instructions aren't as trivial as it is for them since the flywheel is exposed.

dagon138

What size headers were they?

Chicago1

Reactor so which one are you getting?