Head gasket problem usually show up in two ways.
If you have really low compression on a cylinder and water or oil is being
blown out of the engine, or, two adjacent cylinders have really low
compression with all the the spark plugs out, but shows a much higher
compression when a sparkplug is installed in the other cylinders.
A blown head gasket usually takes some time to cause high engine
temperatures. I think you are safe to assume that your head gasket is not
the problem with overheating.
Any idea how far your head has been cut? When I bought my current car it
would run hot, but that went away when I replaced the head. (My old head
had been cut so far that the pistons had been lightly hitting the head
before I replaced it!
Peace,
Pat
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