Okay, looks like the starter issue may be solved, here's another one.

My car runs about 185-200 degrees. It has a 160 stat, 2600 CFM fan, aluminum Afco radiator, and a high volume water pump. Whenever I put my foot in it, it goes to about 205-210, and then cools back down to 190ish when I slow to 60. Seems to me this car should run around 180. I haven't even turned on the A/C yet, but will soon.

My only option left is to go to a 7 blade fan and shroud, with or w/o fan clutch to get this thing to cool.

So what do you guys think? Anything else I can try?

T,

where is the temperature sensor? In the head or in the intake? Head temps can move up and down pretty quickly depending on load. If you don't have a fan shroud, try that first with the fan you have to see if that makes a difference. I'm assuming that you can see plenty of flow through the radiator when you take the cap off? Make sure the radiator fins are clean, too (spray it down with a hose with the engine off).

where is the temperature sensor? In the head or in the intake? Head temps can move up and down pretty quickly depending on load. If you don't have a fan shroud, try that first with the fan you have to see if that makes a difference. I'm assuming that you can see plenty of flow through the radiator when you take the cap off? Make sure the radiator fins are clean, too (spray it down with a hose with the engine off).

The radiator is moving water, temp sensor is in intake manifold. Electric fan has a shroud but doesn't cover the bottom three inches of the radiator, and about 1.5 inches on each side. Fins are clean........

I found a neat site that has fan shrouds to match up to your application. I am going to go back to belt driven fan and shroud, and chuck the electric.

http://racewayparts.com/enginedrivenfanshroudkits.aspx

T,

Okay, they aluminum shroud wasn't exaclty what I wanted, so I went a different route. I purchased the correct downflow radiator and correct plastic shroud, installed a 17" mechanical fan and pulleys. The gauge now sets right at 175 at idle. Haven't driven it yet as I am still working the suspension mods (stay tuned for that picture post)......

I did however correct some problems with the A/C. In doing that the car would get to about 195 sitting still while I was charging the A/C. I would fast idle and the temp. would start to head back to say 180. Once I turned off the A/C and held at fast idle the car returned to the 175-180 range.

Soooo.....by all appearances, it seems that I have corrected my cooling problems with old school/new technology. I will know for sure this weekend,when I get her out for a road test. Will post up findings prolly Sunday.

T,

Okay, got her out on the road and all I can say is the difference is like night and day. Drove it quite a bit in today's heat (it's 95 now), and it never got over 180. It got up to about 187 when I sat at an idle, but when I started moving, it went back down to 180. It even ran about 178 for a bit when I got stretched out on a long haul. Seems to me my problem is solved.

One thing I did fix that may have contributed to the problem was the bottom hose did not have a spring. I think with the hi volume pump, it was sucking the hose flat.

Here are some before and after pictures.

Before the change.

http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn59/tmtuma/122.jpg

After the change.

http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn59/tmtuma/012.jpg

http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn59/tmtuma/011.jpg