'66 Valiant Running Hotter than Expected

So you are going off the factory gauge with no numbers on it and it isn't overheating and it is a fresh engine that hasn't really been broken in yet? That all sounds pretty normal to me.

Yea, maybe but like I said this is starting out like a carbon copy of the Coronet that struggled similar and that was with a factory 26" radiator and small block. If it struggles now at 95F even when broke in it will struggle next year at 105. There is a tipping point that has become clear in our heat.. If you can't do 90F without seeing the gauge move on the highway you will not make it with the AC on and 100F in the summer.