[elmariachi]

The restrictors and new IR gun arrived yesterday and we are going to do some temp testing today and I will be trying the restrictor tomorrow. CC user "Patrick" has been kind enough to lend his opinion in a number of one-on-one emails with me with regard to timing and carburation tuning. Patrick was of the opinion that 20* base was possibly too much initial timing and that could have been contributing to the additional heating. We have backed it off from 20 initial to 16* base + 21 advance and tuned the Demon accordingly. I won't say the carb is running exactly right yet or that I've sorted out the ideal curve, but I am confident that the timing was contributing the to build-up of some of the heat. And the car idles at 1000 rpms albeit very lopey due the high lift cam using the current mixture tuning. Today we are going to idle it in the heat and see to what extent it overheats, and that will give me a chance to take some temp readings on the radiator face.

One of my biggest gripes about CC is that, unlike several other forums I frequent, there are so many threads started by people who never care enough to come back and "close the book." That will not be the case here; however this ends up will be detailed here for those that can benefit later.

Thanks, more to follow.