Ok, thanks for all the great input. I have the problem resolved. 30 miles of driving and stopping, went to 200deg couple times mostly hovered at 195. I made the coolant 50/50, added a bottle of water wetter (which works well, ive used before in AZ and noticed at 5-10deg diff)and timing. I believe my timing was too far adv. I put timing tape on the balancer during this maintenance and think its the wrong tape. As soon as I backed off pretty far from where i thought it should be, temperatures stopped climbing.

As far as why the fan swap. The electric fan with its shroud sits inside, the engine side of the Rad,(pull) so its not blocking anything at cruzing speeds. All the upper and lower baffles are on. The 97 ford V8 Thunderbird fan with the shroud notched 3/8" on each side fits perfect over our 67-69 OEM radiator cores. It draws alot more air thru the cores than the stock shroud with a flex. Clutch, im not sure. Never ran one, but I doubt it pulls more. Bottom line is it adds more HP, I know some will disagree to that. Not much maybe 3-5, but noticable to me. Whole deal total cost was 90$. Salvage yard fan,Jegs temp control switch and relay and my time. Ehh.. and a headache figure out rising temp.