Productive day. Oil and filter change... went back to a full size Wix and fitted the filter with a heat condom... lol. Thought about installing the 90deg. adapter but I've been running like this for a bit and seems ok. The oil filter heat shield sock is just extra insurance.
Drove it around a few hours sans the hood... feels old school...lol. 100 degrees here today and the temp never got much above 195, just over 180 for most of the run. Think I need to adjust the ramp up on the fan controller just a bit. Other than that I definitely picked up some TQ and HP. Comes off the line harder and wants to wind up to higher rpm's a lot faster than before. Still doing a bit of "break in" until I'm sure everything is meshing fine. Sounds quite a bit different than before too... going to have to get used to that.