First time replacing heads and weird gasket issue.

Bad Sport said

So you're saying the water doesn't flow through the front of the intake where the T stat and temp sensor are?

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I was thinking of the rear so I edited my post.
Point is not once have I ever had a problem with the felpro gaskets being wrong where the ports are cut.

If it were me and I had a question I would look up the gasket myself and verify the part number.