Overheating Issues, Perplexed

[elmariachi]

Originally Posted by ERA Chas

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.

Originally Posted by DAVID GAGNARD

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.