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Actually as it turned out, it had nothing to do with the radiator, overheating, heads, or anything of that sort, nor was it a really simple fix. My girlfriend's dad had a look at it while it was running as did I one more time, and this time we noticed an exhaust leak from the exhaust manifold to the pipe. The flange gasket had burnt up, when I pulled it it was all fried and toasty, and uncoiled. I got a new one and put it in, and it still had the problem, tried lots of liquid gasket stuff around it as well, still the problem. Noticed that it wasn't all the way tightened because the studs were stripped. Pulled the manifold and tried to replace the studs. No luck, they were stuck in, had to cut them off, drill and tap them, get new studs, and try it. Put everything back, still had the problem. Turns out the hole we plugged in the manifold before that was orignally supposed to go to the carb for the choke, but the line had gone missing before we got the car, so we plugged it up early on. It came undone, I pulled it again, and filled it with liquid epoxy (JB weld like) It worked for about 6 blocks before it burned it up and popped it out, then the noise started again. Also put that stuff on the radiator hole, stopped it down to a slow drip rather than a shooting spray. Took it to my dad's shop, welded the hole in the manifold shut, applied more epoxy to the radiator, pulled the thermostat out, which was stuck closed, now it's constantly open, going to have to put one in before fall sets in. That solved the radiator and engine getting too hot, now the radiator doesnt have that extra pressure to spit out when it gets hot because it actually cycles now. So basically everything is fixed except for two things. My wheel cylinders in the back which I rebuilt but I am going to replace because the rebuild helped, but didn't fix the problem. My amp, which now has a inversed remote, where when the face is on the amp is off and when the face is off the amp is on (not a good combination) The amp still works, because I can pump sound through my mp3 player to it with the face off and it works. Any help is extremely wanted on this part, because I don't do much work with car audio electronics. I also have a blown speaker and a stripped regulator, but those are easy replacement fixes, no repair can be done to them at this point. Also I think my starter is going out soon and my front wheel cylinders have a very very slow leak. I also need to replace those. But basically everything is fine with my car now except for the amp which is the only thing I'm stuck on and need help with.
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