without seeing his setup its hard to tell but check this, do the radiator hoses have the coil spring suport inside them or they just made out of hose stock? it sounds like thats the case, and also the 383 probably has a high capacity water pump on it , you need to either find some hoses containing the springs so they wont colapse or use steel tubing for the hose and connect the ends with short pieces of straight heavy duty hose, to see this setup, just tilt the hood of any handy semi tractor, a muffler shop can make the tubing the size and way it needs to be for his car, as for the air problem, sometimes it is nessessary to install a air bleed, a valve in the highest point in the system, or some newer cars have one in the top of the thermostat houseing, a petcock can be used, just drill and tap threads where it needs to be to bleed the air when the engine warms up and the thermostat opens , if all else is right it will only need to be done each time the cooling system is drained and refilled
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