Mopar engines need a starter with a lot of torque to kick them awake. That big ol’ barrel-style factory starters or even your OE-mini starter simply doesn’t have the oomph to continually crank your big displacement and/or high compression motor. That’s why we at Mopar Connection Magazine have relied on Powermaster to crank over our project engines this last decade.

Thankfully, you can now pick up a Powermaster XS Torque and Mastertorque gear reduction starter through the world’s biggest vendor of performance parts – Summit Racing. Powermaster’s starters make all the torque necessary to turn over engines making 14:1 or even 18:1 compression. And they do it reliably, start after start. (Not that most of you are squeezing more than 11:1 in your street motors.)

Searching for your next Powermaster starter on Summit is even easier given that they’ve got their own page viewable here. Top quality starters are hard to come by, and finding American-made performance parts is even harder. Amazingly, Powermaster’s starters are BOTH and each is dyno-tested to make sure it produces the cranking torque before being shipped out.

XS Torque Starters have an extra-powerful motor that makes up to 200 lbs.-ft. of torque. Coupled with its 4.4:1 gear-reduction ratio, the XS Torque starters can handle engines with compression ratios as high as 18:1.

Applications include:
• Small and big block Chevy, 348-409, 230-292 inline six-cylinder
• GM LS
• Small block Ford, 351C/M, 400, Boss 302
• Ford FE, 429-460
• Ford Flathead V8
• Ford Modular V8
• Small Mopar 273-360, Magnum 319-360
• Mopar B/RB, 426 Hemi
• AMC V8 and 232-258 inline six-cylinder
• Buick 350-455
• Cadillac 331-500
• Olds 260-455
• Pontiac 326-455

Mastertorque Starters generate up to 180 lbs.-ft. of torque and have a 3.25:1 gear reduction ratio to handle compression ratios up to 14:1. The starters have a black powdercoat finish.

Applications include:
• Small and big block Chevy, 348-409
• GM LS
• Small block Ford, 351C/M, 400, Boss 302
• Ford FE, 429-460
• Ford Modular V8
• Small block Mopar, B/RB, 426 Hemi
• Olds 260-455