416 stroker temp?

yellow rose said

Pretty rare to have a PV leak anymore. Of it hot starts fine, it's not a blown PV.

Brown is too rich as well.

You need to read through the thread in the fuel and air systems with a title about power valve opening or something. 12many started it. Read it all. It has some really good pictures at the end.

You set your cruise A/F ratio by the main jet, and WOT with the holes behind the power valve.

All of that and more is in the other thread.

Did you make sure your water pump pulley is smaller that the crank pulley???

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Well, IT IS ALL FIXED. Friggin 180 degree thermostat was stuck and only partially open. Almost no flow through the radiator. I did a thermal check and top hose read 160 while the bottom hose read 90 degrees. Drained some fluid, pulled the gooseneck, removed that piece of made in china or mexico crap, installed a new gasket with NO thermostat, looked in the radiator and there she blows. Lots of flow. Running at 180 now. Thanks for all the help guys. Just wanted to update you. I did pull and checked my dyno sheet. Air to fuel rarion was at about 12.8 from idle all the way to 5300 RPM which is where she is making peak horsepower. She is running a little rich. Holley said it may be just a need to change the power valve from the 6.5 that the carb came with to maybe a 5.0. He said it may just be loading up at idle because it runs the balls on the highway. I did install and check my vacuum at idle and it was a steady 10.2 inches of vacuum. Holley said the power valve should be at about half that number.