[DeTomaso] Connecting A High Torque/Gear Reduction Starter In A Pantera

[MikeLDrew at aol.com]

Bill,

What has never been adequately explained is why you can't just run the 
battery cable to the new starter (either using the old solenoid solely as a 
means to join the two cables, or discarding it entirely and just using a bolt 
and nut to attach the two cables together, and wrapping with heat-shrink), and 
extending the stock actuation wire (coming from the key), from the old 
solenoid, to the new solenoid.

Yes, I know, there are various wires for points and so forth on the stock 
solenoid, but if one is using a modern ignition system, as the overwhelming 
majority of us are, those wires are no longer used anyway.

So, what's the problem with the ultra-simple scheme, which simply replaces 
the solenoid on the firewall, with the solenoid on the starter?

Mike