super six now where the heck do all these vacuum ports go to?

gdizzle said
$2.25 add it to the $100's of dollars of advice you provide daily to the slant 6 crowd.

Well, okeh, I'll just move the decimal: Your total is $225, please drive round to the 2nd window!

I experimented with the Thermostatic thing, it doesnt seem to operate (I connected it directly to the manifold vacuum plug, lots of vacuum). I then tried with my mouth to get that flapper to move. I noticed that there is a small nipple inside the air cleaner that seems to just be exposed. I plugged it and then I got plenty of vacuum to move the flapper up.

That dingus you plugged is the thermostat for the system. Yours is faulty; send me a PM for a new one. No, you shouldn't connect anything to that or plug it.

Also when I uncapped the manifold vacuum (that is normally plugged) on the manifold, the engine revved much higher?

Well, you created a vacuum leak. That will tend to increase the engine speed.