Re: small block overheating
[Re: hemiparts]
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11/08/09 11:03 PM
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If its the Moroso pump drive, yes, very possible. It pumps 8.8gpm w/standard drive pulley and 11.3gpm w/ the 28% OD pulley. You might try an extra fan. Also,  (please forgive) but where do you get the blue headlights/covers or whatever.
Yeah, it's got a smallblock.
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Re: small block overheating
[Re: chris3]
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11/09/09 10:46 AM
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A couple things I've tried on mine were to enrich idle mixture(but not so much you're cleaning plugs the first 330') and idle as slow as possible. Backing off initial timing could help if your engine combo would allow it.
Yeah, it's got a smallblock.
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Re: small block overheating
[Re: chris3]
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11/09/09 10:49 AM
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I'm open to any suggestions on the overheating, thanks.
The announcer at the track yesterday called it the "blue-eyed Duster." Sox painted those lens blue for years. Clean the light, degrease it and spray with Candy Blue paint. The paint has to be candy top coat or it will be too thick. Then buff it like buffing candy paint.
That picture Hemiparts has at the beginning is priceless. When I have those guys, my son and my two grandsons, all at the track it is a good day if that car runs good or not. That little guy, standing on the cooler, is bound to have 114 as blood.
With out a doubt - " priceless!" To visually check flow, run it with the cap off. You should see lots of coolant movement accross the fill neck hole. To make sure you don't have any radiator blockage, run your hand accross the front of the entire core area. It should be hot everywhere.
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Re: small block overheating
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11/09/09 11:18 AM
11/09/09 11:18 AM
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It might be a circulation problem..Every heating issue I have ever had with a big block was the radiator. Those engines just dont run hot. The Moroso pump while not the best thing on the market does the job at the track. Inspect the cooling system carefully. 
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Took Duster to t-n-t and in the short trip from pits to staging lanes and then to the line car heats to over 210 degrees ?? I had the fan and the waterpump running the whole time, I run a big 4core factory radiator any ideas ??? The water pump runs off an electric motor any chance it's not spinning fast enough to keep the engine cool ?? Any ideas would be a great help Chris3 is taking it down to Kinston next Saturday for an Old Timers race would love to figure it out before he gets down there !!!
) using the same paint tricks they used back in the 60's
Let us know waht you find and do please 
I was only tunning 35 total and went to 33.
