j par---whats wrong w/ royal purple additive, all I`ve read says it s the best, better than water wetter! ????
Colt--- Who u callin an amateur !! LOL
AJ---No matter,at 65 mph, a bigger hi h.p. engine will make more heat. Bigger moving parts, more weight etc. My initial timing , I dropped back to 21, it runs best /so far w/ 22. I run an alum. 7 qt old funny car pan . As I posted earlier, I run the biggest mech. fan I can. I run gapless rings, I have never had a leakage problem w/ them, and they have worked for me in 600 horse sbc engines as well as this engine, the thing a has more vacuum than the cam should allow. I run full 3 1/2" exhaust, fully wrapped from the heads to the turn downs (because I had it ) in front of the rear axle, no bends in the entire system. No interior heat and not any extra noise w/ my home rigged 3 1/2" mufflers, no back pressure and no racking. Full hughs roller set up, and .628/ 260 @ .50 street roller cam etc. The stud girdle helps control the crankcase oil deal some. Vents in the hood . Not going to a smaller rad. under any circumstances! Has more rake than 1".
And the whole car is "in ur face", most people think it`s a hemi when they hear it. Most of this "close to " overheating has came on w/ the fan experimentation. I still have a couple of things I want to try, before going back to the original set up. The whole deal started w/ me trying elec fans.
I would love to have a spoiler by randy, I think it would help some,maybe a bunch, but would be hard to tow the car "if I had to!" ( hope that isn`t needed !" Thanks for the suggestions tho--any others will be read and considered !--------AINT WE GOT FUN! Bob
