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Old 06-09-2009, 08:11 PM
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You've tried a whole bunch of things and some have helped and some have not, that's part of the process,been there/done that.....

I think your going about it the right way and I have been going over this in my mind and it's starting to get "personal" with me.

So far, you've done pretty much all the recommend "fix's" cept the pulley and a different fan.......pretty much the same results, so I'm gonna box up that crappy pulley and a fan and send to you to try....

The fan is 1/2 of a factory dual fan set-up off some Mitsubishi car I picked sometime ago at a body shop. The actual blades are 16"s in diameter and the whole thing is about 18"s in square.I cut it in half and used one half on my engine run-in stand, all I have is a small aluminum Griffin radiator (old) on the stand, maybe 24"s wide total. I ran my 331 race motor on it for a total of 3 hours a while back, with the longest continous run time of 1 hour at varouis rpms and it never,never got above 180.......On the race car I have a 17" or 18" electric fan (Spal, I think) but a bigger radiator and it does the job. I think it is a 3600 cfm fan, but the Mitsubishi fan will blow that and at least half that again if not more, it's a freakin hurricane when on, I'm guessing at least 5000 cfms...

It's worth a try and by switching the hot/ground wires, you can make it a puller or pusher....

E-mail me your mailing address at

cda351@bellsouth.net

and I'll get it out to you in the next day or two.....if it works, pay the shipping and it's yours.......
As I said, it's starting to get personal with me and I want to see it fixed as bad as you, been in the same situation before and I know it ain't no fun going for a drive wondering when it'll get hot and always watching the temp gauge!!!!!!!!!!

David
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Old 06-09-2009, 10:59 PM
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El,My So acts exactly as yours before your testing: T'stat opens at 180, temps while moving remain 180-190 (6000+ RPM) slowly inching up to 210+ standing still. . This has been the case for 17 years and I've lived with it and driven accordingly.
Charles, you bring up a good point. This is not a catastrophic problem here, especially after Patrick having jelped me work out a better level of timing and tuning last week. Its more a matter of me having peace-of-mind that no matter the situation, I am not putting the engine in danger of melting down. Houston is a BRUTALLY hot environment 9-10 months out of the year and I don't want to ever worry unless I have to. As Charles has done, I "could" manage this if I had to. But only after I exhaust all fan/pulley/shroud/radiator options. Besides, I love a good challenge.

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I think your going about it the right way and I have been going over this in my mind and it's starting to get "personal" with me.David
Well I love the support and sponsorship, but don't lose any sleep over this guys. David, hold off sending anything, I did score the 5.5" water pump pulley. I already had the larger 7" crank pulley so I am going from 6.5" on each to 7"/5.5." That should be a big change. And I have the 2700 cfm SPAL fan that I had on before this 3650 cfm. I am going to install the pulleys tomorrow eve and play with various locations front and back for the spal fan. I also have a HUGE shop fan that I borrowed to set in front of the nose. And I also located a dual puller in a plastic shroud that is supposed to pull 5000 cfm that I can borrow this weekend. Let me try some of these items next and we'll see what happens.

Thanks guys, more to follow.
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Old 06-10-2009, 08:04 AM
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Charles, you bring up a good point. This is not a catastrophic problem here, especially after Patrick having jelped me work out a better level of timing and tuning last week. Its more a matter of me having peace-of-mind that no matter the situation, I am not putting the engine in danger of melting down. Houston is a BRUTALLY hot environment 9-10 months out of the year and I don't want to ever worry unless I have to. As Charles has done, I "could" manage this if I had to. But only after I exhaust all fan/pulley/shroud/radiator options. Besides, I love a good challenge.
To be clear, I'm not encouraging you to 'suffer through it' as I do. You need to do this in your environment.
I too like to track things down to a satisfactory conclusion.
You go guy!
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