Another Advice Post

That cam is a good cam for mileage and decent pep on the road.
Skip the polish on the heads. Just run them stock to bowl ported and you'll be fine.

Your going to spend a lot of unnecessary money. First of all, being bored .030 over will automatically help raise the compression. So, by the time you do all that work on the 273 heads (bigger valves, hardened seats, porting, milling), why not just use a set of 302's, or even 308's?? The 302's are very easy to get (85-91) 318 and are close chambered heads. The 308's are found on 360's from 88-91. They are not close chamber but have the bigger valves/ports.
My suggestion is this: Because you don't care about performance/high horse power, but all you want is bottom end "stomp" and a good cruiser, I'd forget bigger valves. Just use 318 heads (new enough to already have hardened seats). These are inexpensive. If your not using headers, not racing it, then big valves and porting do you no good. Big valves/ports take AWAY from low end torque. Big cams, valves, ports want high rpm. You said you want low end, so stick to a 318 head and save some money. What you can do for the 318 head is mildly open the intake ports a little to match the intake ports... and this is free because you can do it yourself at home.

Thanks for all the comments, appreciated as always.

Rumble, thanks on the thumbs up on the cam.

318willrun, I understand the 302 heads already have the hardened seats and have considered them.

At this time I've spent nothing and committed to nothing. I want to keep the intake ports on the small side, intake manifold and heads will get a gasket match. So that I understand, staying with the smaller valves and this cam with a mild cleanup of the ports and no chamber polish will give me what I'm looking for without breaking the bank, right? This is with stock heads not milled .030.

My current heads have the small valves but are open chamber. Lest assume I keep these for now while searching for a set of 302's. Even though they have a larger open chamber, will I have the gains I'm looking for by swapping the cam and intake? I mean, the valves and guides have about 10,000 miles on them. I could pull these heads, disassemble them, port them a bit and call it done. The only thing I would be giving up would be the increased compression ratio.