You can be sure if I was racing lites id be measuring every casting I could legally use! I'd probably know a thing or two about gaskets too.
Yup, like finding the thickest base gasket within tolerance, thinnest headgasket, head that has the smallest domes, squish, etc - within tolerance........
Chris, one thing that is very common here, is we are all enthusiast. We all have different strengths of knowledge. And many many times one topic starts off about A, and ends up about D. That is what happened, the topic went from 701 heads to 760 heads. Hence, the conversations about there being staggered dome sizes. Yamaha does this to keep heat down on the rear piston. They found in runabouts (AKA Waveraiders) that the rear pistons would heat up more due to loads to the pump so they lowered the compression and also jetted richer to keep the rear temps down. This is what Wax was referring to... And he is also correct. Most of us dump the stock heads. I have not ran one since 2002 or 2003.