Been damn nearly 40 years since I seen a genny like that Bird.....on my '60-61 Pontiacs.....left the last one in Texas in '70......
as for the hot start thing, maybe ONCE on this vette, and that was several years ago, I went to the mini starter for less than 100 bux at AZ, and never looked back....lifetime warranty too, I think....
I have headers not so very far away from it too, and no heat shield either....
course on these vettes, what with the way the battery cables are done...when I got the car, very first thing I did was grind down the frame on all wire spots/bolts, and clean up everybody really well, bolt down with lock washers really snug, the covered the whole stud with RTV to keep out any corrosion, case closed.....
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you know many if not most battery negatives cables go directly to the block with a thinner ground wire to the body--firewall.....so there is no accumulated resistance in the wiring....
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