ok...i just bought the car maybe a month ago. it has always had somewhat of a rough, loud start up but just the other night as i was attempting to leave sonic the starter made this awful screetching/grinding noise. i thought a had lost teeth or something. so i droped the starter, and checked the fly wheel for damage. the flywheel wasnt even shiney, so im positive thats not the problem. i took the old starter to advance, and it was so badly fried it was shooting sparks. i bought a brand new one, bolted it up started it. first time was rough like it was before, then i tried it again and the same noise happened and the car wouldnt turn over. i have no clue what is wrong. it almost sounds like the starter is not engaging. the block has a somewhat bad oil leak. would this affect a brand new starter on the 2nd fire up? PLEASE help. i need this car working. thanks!

 

no oil leak shouldn't as long as it's not running all over starter, you could have a bad selonoid that is keeping current applied to the starter after it starter and therfore it doesn't disengauge from the flywheel or just a plain bum new/reman starter, seen it before

 

If your starter was staying engaged it wouldn't stop the engine from running but rather keep the engine a couple hundred rpms above idle. That happened to mine and despite killing the ignition I had to remove the battery cables to stop the starter.

 

ok, you said flywheel so I am guessing you do have a 5 speed. Do you know anything about the car itself and previous problems it has?

 

well i have resorted to push starting it,but its embarrassing and a pain in the ***. and when it idles now it IS higher than normal. but the starter will stop spinning when i cut the key off. so would that still be the problem? and sadly i dont know that much about the car. =/

 

turns out it was the flywheel. the backside of the flywheel that i couldnt see was wore away. slapped a new one in there and shes good as new! thank you for all the replies!