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Still deciding whether I need one or not. I would like to hear from those who have headers on a base model (battery in the engine compartment) who do NOT use a starter heat shield and if you've had starting issues? I've read my fair share of posts about this and it seems there are two schools of thought: 1. Let it breathe, air is the best coolant, a wrap will hold the heat in 2. Wrap it, the heat will crack the "plastic" part on the solenoid.
Questions that come to mind:
1. Do C6s have heat soak issues WITHOUT aftermarket headers?
2. Do the GS/Z06 models have a higher incidence of "heat soaking"?...could the long battery cable be the culprit?
Should answer your question, since added heat to starter solenoid cap (type of bakelite) ends up with the added heat just snapping the battery termial off the starter solenoid.
So long tube headers, even with ceramic spray coating on the header tubes, get heat shield over starter and solenoid.
I think also some of the newer model starters have a little longer studs so you have two nuts on them 1 before the eye hole connector and 1 after it creating a sandwich even if the bakealight gives way in photo above the connector is sandwiched between the two nuts thus maintaining the connection. The old ones with no second nut the connection got loose as the bakealight gave way.
Should answer your question, since added heat to starter solenoid cap (type of bakelite) ends up with the added heat just snapping the battery termial off the starter solenoid.
So long tube headers, even with ceramic spray coating on the header tubes, get heat shield over starter and solenoid.
Starter heat shield or not?
