"Something in the Orange"

Interesting that my first post on A-Bodies was related to getting the hood lined up. The body panels up front will be a recuring theme that plagued me for some time to come....
the second set of threads that i initiated were asking what first $1000 would you spend for best results at the track. That seems to sum up where my head was at then !!! It looks like I was pretty skimpy on the use of the like and thank you buttons too. I'll try to rectify that going forward.
By July 2011 I was looking to cool the engine bay down at idle. ??? The only reason I could think of why that was a problem so soon was because....

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I actually was trying to race it and I remember that it didn't like idling after making a few runs.