Like a bomb went off under the hood...

Can you please explain why a 160* doesn’t allow the engine to run cooler? Seems that opening sooner would give the cooling system a head start to start dissipating the heat...Maybe I just never thought that through the whole way.

Has anyone had experience with the Flow-Cooler water pumps. At the time I bought it they were all the rage.

it opens at 160, unless you have a Monster radiator in there no way the system can disperse the heat created to keep it at 160.
160 is also probably not optimum to burn off the fuel & condensation that makes its way into the oil. not that the car would run at 160 the way it is.