Street Cruser

After several around the neighborhood drives and additional engine tuning figured it was time to take the 68B on a short excursion.
I had M follow me in her car and we went on a 9.5 mile drive that included a short highway stint where I had the car up to 70 MPH, some boulevard 45 MPH driving and some stop and wait and then stop and wait some more city traffic. We had both reset the cars trip odometers to zero and both cars registered 9.5 miles when we returned. I clicked the AC on for about the last mile of the drive and it was blowing cold air.

Good news - out and back with out incident.
I have quite a bit of shrouding around the front of the car, the air that does get in is ducted through the radiator. On a 85 degree, high humidity Indiana day, the engine temps stayed in the 195 range. I have twin electric fans with one of them running all the time the motor is switched on. Shut the car off , let it set for a few minutes and it restarts with out issue, the temperature gauge is pegged on the restart but it pulls back down to the hot side of normal quickly.

Used the infra red non contact thermometer to get the temperatures of some components after the 9.5 mile drive.
All temperatures are degrees F

8.75 differential and housing 110 to 115
Battery, trunk mounted 85
Coil, fender mounted in engine compartment 149
MSD box fender mounted in engine compartment 144
Fender next to coil and MSD box 125
Alternator 165 near front of motor
Starter 180 at rear of motor
Oil filter top 177
MS3 ECU in passenger compartment 93

I don't see anything alarming. I will let the car cool, check fluids and take it for a longer drive over the weekend.

"long metal cylinder was an air intake" yes, the large diameter section is the filter housing.