help my engine gets to hot

[beardy2]

well my engine runs good and is timed right it has all it's fluids but we had it running for about 3 min about 30 min ago and the headers on the passenger side got so hot they turned red and all of my hoses that the coolant runs threw are all to warm so can any of you tell me whats going on. i think the water pump took a crap and thats why the hoses are to warm but what about the headers.

[Lucky SOB]

are your fans kicking in? what does your water temp gauge read? the headers can get hot if your heads are not being cooled by coolant. Do you have coolant?

[roadblaster]

How many rpms?

[beardy2]

well i have the coolant full and my fan is a manual fan my temp gauge doesent work at this time. and how many rpms what i guess i dont understandwhat you mean by rpms

[roadblaster]

RPMS=Revolutions per minute. Is the engine running pretty fast to get so hot in a hurry? Is the engine new? Details please

[transampimp]

If your headers are getting extremely hot I would say you have a clog in your exhaust someplace.

[beardy2]

well the engine is not new and it is just on idle and it gets reved up a few time we were just seeing how it was running

[roadblaster]

What about the history? Was it OK before, then something got changed?

[beardy2]

it ran perfect when i bought it but i took of the two barrel carb and intake and changed it to a 4 barrel setup that was off another running engine

[1BADAIR]

running way too rich????

[roadblaster]

Is it possible that the thermostat in the 4-Bbl intake is stuck closed?

[roadblaster]

Rich would not make it run hot, but lean condition would.

Did you set the distributor advance with a timing light?

[beardy2]

that would exsplain the extra smoke from the exhaust we figured that was from it being tilted so much. how do you make it not so rich.

[beardy2]

the thermestat is brand new. and we timed it to the 8 past the 0 the 8 closest to the drivers side

[roadblaster]

If Choke butterfly is closed, it will run rich. You can set the idle mixture with needle vavles . Is it a Rochester Quadrajet? Computer controlled or not?

I suspect that the overheating is an ignition timing issue or low coolant.