[wizard]

I agree that it sounds a little high and that's in the range mine runs in. I also feel the heat in the foot box when the temps start moving up. I thought I had solved the problem after I discovered the low water level, but that didn't pan out. (It did however stop my vapor lock problem.) I'm just dumb enough to keep pushing though and I WILL figure this out. Last option I tried was taking 10 deg out the distributor's centrifical advance. I am now at 16 initial with 18 centrifical (total 34). Runs great except that it ran a little warmer on my freeway run. I will say that after I got back onto city streets, the temp came back down (210). The day was wamer than my previous test and now I'm beginning to think it's air flow. I upgraded the mustang 5.0 fan that the WC comes with to a dual fan, full shroud unit and that really didn't seem to change things. My next step will be to remove the thermostat (it didn't have one when I bought it) and then maybe looking at fabricating a way to direct more air onto the radiator. I really don't want to pull the heads to check the gaskets, but I'm afraid I may have to. But because of all the work involved in that, I want to make sure I have visited all other possibilities at least once.
If any one has any comments, feel free to jump in. Somewhere on this great forum, I'm sure there's an answer.
YOUSE GUYS with the 514 WC's, where y'all running tempwise??