302 casting potential?

So here's the deal, we got a free old ram 4x4, had a spare motor in the bed, it's an 87 318, my brother and I pull the valve cover to see if it had 302 heads and yea it does, he'd like to use them on his 318 build but isn't all that thrilled with the 1.78/1.50 valves so he'd like to know if these heads can be punched out to 2.02/ 1.60 and he'd still have closed chambers to keep compression up. Anyone know if this will work? and if he ports them, are they still swirl port heads?

They should be swirl chambers...not swirl ports if they are 318 heads. In those I go to a 1.84 chevy 305 intake valve, 11/32 guide and do some porting. Going to a 2.02 valve it's impossible to get the port shaped correctly...the flow bench will say the 2.02 valve with porting is great, but the engine will disagree.
Go to a 1.6 exhaust valve and have the seat formed with a good radius cutter. Max out the pushrod pinch and those heads will make suprisingly good HP!