First off, beautiful car. Back when they used real iron and steel.
The 160 thermostat will not help much as it is the total capacity of the cooling system that sets the actual operating temperature limit.
What sort of temperature are you seeing?
Check the timing and the mechanical advance for proper operation.
Are you running pump gas with ethanol? If so you may want to have the carburetor jets altered as the ethanol will cause the engine to run lean and get hotter. To see if that is the case you can pull the plugs and see if they are shiny white and glassy looking.
I would also check the fan clutch, if it is not engaging it will cause it to run hot at low speeds.
Does it still have the fan shroud? They were not much but they do help.
Does it have AC? If so have you tried cleaning out between the two cores? Crud builds up and blocks the airflow.
Just a few things to look at.
Thursday, August 17th, 2017 AT 4:13 PM