Heat Soaked Starter

Earlie A said
Spent 3 1/2 hours in a parking lot last night waiting for the starter on my 65 Dart to cool down. Only after I had called a tow truck did it start. So I have to do something about the heat soaked starter. Engine is a 360 with TTI headers. As can be seen in the pictures, the header heat tape is touching the starter. Starts fine when cold. Won’t even turn over when hot.

So here’s my question. Is there a higher quality starter (smaller would be great) that I can use in this application? Pretty sure this is already the Dakota style mini starter.

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This is one of the reasons I decided to leave the headers off and go back to stock manifolds with dual exhausts. In the eight or nine years that I had headers installed I went through several starters that failed because they got thoroughly baked by the headers. I also had a torsion bar snap right at the point where it passed by the header on the drivers side. Things are just a little too crowded on the drivers side for comfort, so I gave up. It’ll be interesting to see if you find a good workable solution to the problem.