318 head gaskets and water jacket holes

You took .030 off a 302? What compression are you looking for as that is going to be pretty high for a stock head. Mill a head and the distance between the opposite intake ports decreases, that makes the intake sit taller, altering the port alignment without milling the intake.

I had my machine shop measure the chambers and I'm right at 56cc. Thinking of running the regular felpro head gaskets now to avoid having to deal with high test gas/ race fuel.