Quote Originally Posted by scottydoggs View Post
when you bleed it, you need to run the car till its hot with the rad cap off, and wait till the t-stat has opened up, open the brass screw, don't remove it, 2 or 3 turns, it will blow bubbles if it has air in it, when a steady stream of coolant comes out shut the screw, then top off the rad, and cap it. oh and put a 195 t-stat in it if you swapped it back to a 180, your not tuned for a 180 and you don't need it.
Exactly. I realized I wouldn't tune for a while, so I have the 195 in there now - this is the one giving me problems.

Also, whenever I try to let it run with the cap off, the coolant comes up too fast and I have to put the cap on to keep it from pouring out. I can try letting some coolant out and doing this, but wouldn't running it above the t-stat temp flush all the air out to the rad? I mean, 10 mins at 210, all the air will blow out and collect in the rad one way or another. Right?

That's what I did and I'm assuming I got all the air out, albeit not the common way. I can see how a pocket could get trapped in the upper rad hose, but I just checked for that and the coolant was right up to the bleed screw.