Thread: Got the '35 back on the road, but I got problems...

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I'm no expert but I would never expect one side of a SBC to run more than a couple of degrees hotter than the other. My first thought was that your shim gasket may be blocking, or partially blocking a water port on the hot side. It seems to me that you have to be dealing with some kind of flow restriction, either in the head or with the gasket. Just my thoughts...

Don't this beat all......I put my 14 year old el-cheapo rebuilt Carquest water pump back on the car and it hasn't been hit 200 degrees or boiled the water since. I've got a 170 dollar Edelbrock that ain't worth throwing in a gully. The passenger head was around 40 degrees hotter than the driver's side with the Edelbrock pump and with the stock pump they are the same temperature. I just drove the crap out of it for almost two hours and it never hit 200. I let it idle for a pretty good while and the cooling fan cycled on and off perfectly with no rise in temperature. What should I do now?

I've never heard anything good come from wrapping headers. I have rpc coated sanderson block huggers on my sbc (1968 sb, 2.02 fueling heads, 350hp) and have never had an overheating problem. Sure it gets to about 220 sitting in heavy traffic on a hot (95+degree day) but that's about it. I have more space between my fan and my engine than what you appear to have but I don't have a fan as efficient as your cooling component unit either.

Now it might be incorrect but i was told years ago that wrapping headers wasn't necessarily a good thing especially on a street car because it can keep more heat in than you might actually want. Fine for drag cars, but maybe not for street cars.

Like I said, that could be wrong, and I am sure there are many engine specialist here that can correct my bad learnings.

You snuck the new post in on me, but since you did, it sounds like you need to ebay that edelbrock pump.