408 still overheating :/

nm9stheham said
Hey AJ,

I thought you had some holes cut in the back of your hood to vent the air out and keep fresh flowing through?

And BTW, the compression ratio thing is not that it is the cause per se, but it will create more heat that has to be managed. And AL heads will also take more heat out through the engine directly into the engine compartment than with iron heads, bypassing the heat flow path through the radiator. Turbos and headers also add more heat directly into the engine compartment that has to be gotten rid of and the regular cooling system can't do a thing about that.

From the symptoms described, it just sounds like things are getting heat soaked at a high temp.

Well a very long time ago when the combo was first assembled, I was as naive as anybody. So I had a bit of a heat issue, lol .Just a minor one. I was on a roadtrip, some 600 miles from home. I noticed that every time I stopped for gas, the factory 1969 starter had a hard time cranking it back up. Remember I'm always bragging on my fancy OEM gauges? Well it wasn't catching any overheat, but there was SOMETHING doing on. Well. I dug out the tool-kit and elevated the back of the hood, and the problem went away. And the rest of the trip was all good. Well except for the occasional whiff of gas. But with 465-A/C it wasn't a problem.
So then when I got home I had some detective work to do..... 465; you know; 4 windows down@65mph.
When I got home,ten days later, I had some detective work to do. I put in a mini starter,put the hood down, and Badaboom.