Check My Cam Degreeing

I just looked back at post #12. I typoed the dome volume. According to KB's site, it should be -1.2, not the -.013 that I typed. I still get the 11.82. The .035 gasket thickness is a guess. New they're .038.
I have no idea if they were milled. They are 915's.
I found the confusing part of that Wallace Calculator..... pistons nominally below deck (like you should have with a standard deck) require you put in a + number for deck height.....in other words, put in .013 for Deck Height, not -.013. Yeah, I know, that does not make sense, but it's how that calculator works..... below deck, put in a + deck height ; above deck, put in a - deck height. Change that and you will get the correct number of around 11.1.

As for your heads....you NEED to see what is what there because that dome on the piston is .080" high than the 'deck height' of the piston (which is the piston's outer edge), so the piston dome will indeed stick well above a standard LA deck... by about .065". With that head gasket, the dome will protrude around .030" above the head gasket and into the open chamber of the head.

For your 64-ish chamber volume to be correct for a 915 head, it has to have been milled down something like .040" + or -. That will make the open part of the head about .070" deep, + or -. That open area depth will work OK with the dome sticking up as far as it will. But, if the head has been milled more than .040" or the deck is short for some reason, and the piston domes stick up too far, then you risk piston to head contact.

Hope that all makes sense. Just trying to make sure you are not getting in trouble on piston-to-head clearance. Time to know that for sure; you can adjust the head gasket thickness to make small corrections. If things are assembled with the heads torque down.... dunno how to advise you.

FWIW, with an 11.1 Static CR and your cam installed at a 114 ICL, the numbers for cranking compression come out to around 153 psi.... right at what you measured, within the tolerances of everything considered.... gauges, calculators, etc....) So that confirms that your Static CR has to be close to 11.1.