Changing starter

My experience with a freshly built motor and headers. I built a 440 with 9to1 comp.and not too radical of a cam. I went for a drive and being a stick car stalled it. I couldn't start it for an hour till it cooled down. The headers heated the starter so bad with a jump still wouldn't crank. The starter was from a police car that was rebuilt by a reputable shop. It lasted me 10 years on a 440 and 5 years on a crate 472 hemi. So I cut the headers off and went with stock manifolds on the 440 and the hemi and never had another problem with the starter. I just recently put the mini starter on the hemi.