Reply to "Replaced radiator, now the engine is running hotter during stop and go driving"

Sorry guys, but I can't keep quiet any more. While I'm impressed with the enginuity and enginering skills here, the solutions are all IMHO compensating for a problem instead of correcting it. If a car suddenly runs hotter after replacing radiator, then either the radiator is wrong, or something was messed up during installation, like are all hoses tight, air pockets?

Case in point: My Pantera has 600HP and never overheats. Not even on tropic heat drives in France. Not even when idling through traffic after a 20 minute high rpm blast on the motorway. Sorry if this seems like insensitive bragging, my point is that my system is mostly stock, and it works. No louvers cut, no removing of thermostat, no slowing down or speeding up of flow. My system is stock, except I have two puller fans and the Halls radiator is tilted forward. Proper Cleveland thermostat. Proper coolant. Non-leaking system with two clamps on every connection. One fan is thermostat controlled, is on maybe 25% of the time, the other is manually controlled, I switch it on when in stop and go traffic in the heat. Don't know if I have to, but I do.

Your's could have a problem that I'm lucky enough not to have, but you probably won't fix it by cutting your hood, removing your thermostat or anything like that.

Good luck with it.