210° @ Cruise and 180° @ Stop? What's Going On?

68gtxman said
A high stall speed torque converter will dump tons of heat into the radiator at cruising speeds. An auxiliary trans cooler can help with this. But my $ is on the lower house collapsing at highway speeds. RRR is right on (as always) for getting more coolant to flow and this can't happen if the lower hose is sucked closed.

Spot on 68GTXMan. I can definitely feel the heat coming up through the floor. (And I used FatMat pretty generously all over the interior) I'm using a custom built Dynamic Converter - stall is around 3200-3400 RPM. I have the auxiliary cooler mounted in front between the grille and radiator (located closer to the driver's side headlight so it doesn't block any airflow directly through the radiator.)

I'm banking on the hose - but I have yet to get the new part. I really like the pool noodle idea as well for the air dam between the radiator and engine bay! (I think they make rounded black insulation foam for use around residential water pipes, which might be the way I go) The foam padding used on roll bars would probably work too. The fiberglass hood doesn't have provisions for the stock rubber style and I don't want to drill into it. With a little Polak ingenuity we'll get something to work.