Help with 360, too much comp?

If you go to a wilder cam to bleed off SCR: (1) it might not bleed off enough (A guy on Moparts had a nightmare with this) (2) a wilder cam than what you are comfortable with will make you unhappy very soon. If you are happy with your current cam keep it. You have a balanced short block in the vehicle all hooked up ex for the heads/intake etc. My 2 cents: Come up with a CONSERVATIVE SCR number to shoot for then buy a thick head gasket or order a cometic special thick ones to get the SCR reasonable. As you know gas is crap (& varies from state to state) & you're a traveler & you'd rather have the SCR on the conservative side for that reason & so that you can max out the dist subsystem settings: initial/total/springs/vac adv which will give you a much more powerful/efficient eng than one that has a too high of SCR and the timing is bandaided (retarded) to compensate. As said alumheads wick away heat & reduce pinging. #1 #1 find a conservative SCR number. measure your cyl vol etc & figure your current SCR for a baseline. However if I was to allow my OCD to kick in I would (1) order a Cometic gasket set that would give me a (measured) .035" quench and quench give you an efficient long block no matter what else you do (2) mill the piston decks (not the plateau-you need that for quench-maybe) and open the head chambers ALL to achieve the SCR you are after (3) weigh the pistons before/after to see if there will be a balancing issue & if so buy some heavier pins to restore those grams & reportedly 273 pins are very heavy (thick wall) on purpose & you can drill the ID to get em where you want for weight. this will give you/end results (1) cam manners you are OK with (2) able to run on your octane (3) efficient long block from achieving quench (4) conservative SCR so you can run a good ign curve