Yeah it sounds like you had a bunch of air in there, the way I always do it when refilling the system (from empty) is open the bleed screws and fill the radiator, you will actually hear the air rush out the bleeds, then when the thermo starts spitting water I close it and fill til the top one spits then tighten then fill the radiator, it usually has very little air in it after this. (just for future reference.)

 

Thanks for all the help guys...You all saved my hide once again.
I drove the car to work today (about 8min drive) and the temp gauge stayed just above the second line. When I got off work, I put some more coolant in the Radiator. I hope I don't have a hole in the catch pan because I'm using a lot of coolant. I'm going to do this one more time and just open both bleed screws until I see coolant. Whichever one spits coolant 1st, I close it and wait for the other. Would it hurt to take the bleedscrews completely out while bleeding the system.

Is it possibe that since I have a little bit higher compression with the heads/cams that the car will run just a little bit warmer than I'm used to seeing?

Tim

 

Yeah the generation of power allways creates more heat, but your system should have no trouble dealing with it. Since you have it pretty well nailed doen I would just bleed the top screw again to be sure, the bottom one should have it all past it by now.
No taking the screws out completely would do nothing for ya during the bleeding, it would just be a pain to put the screw back in and all. I would get it to operating temp , drive around hard then let it run in the driveway for a few minutes and look for leaks etc.

 

I can't thank you all enough for your invaluable help.
All I can do to repay you guys is.....


Tim