Missing water jacket cutouts on new head gaskets.

[Guest]

The heads on my 352 have large water jackets on either end of the heads, but so far, I am unable to find head gaskets that have a cutout the same as my water jackets. The front cutout is correct, and the rear cutouts have only a small hole in that location, smaller than the diameter of a pencil. It seems odd to me as these are definitely the right gaskets, I am told, and now two different brand names show the same configuration. Why would anyone want to limit the water flow with a gasket?
What should I do? I was planning on cutting it out myself, but thought I'd see if anyone here had seen this issue before.
Please advise if you've encountered this before.

[Guest]

Hey JCLipka,
Go to the Search in black bar above, hit search, type in head gaskets. Scan down that page till you find Head Gasket Wright or Wrong dated 4-23-2009. These guys break it down for you in that post!
Richard D. Hord

[tarps3]

the gaskets are correct.
search for those previous posts and they explain it.

[seven up]

The cutouts go to rear of the engine.

[Guest]

A lot of head gaskets are marked. As stated below they go to the rear. Mike

[Guest]

Thank you all...that explains why I was overheating so badly.