New build (not fired), water in cylinder-head gasket backwards?

[Seth Swoboda]

One thing I've always been leary of is aluminum heads, cast iron block and copper gasket. That is a lot if dissimilar metals and things heat up and cool off at different rates. That is probably a dumbfounded concern. Lots of folks have used aluminum heads, even Ford, for a century. That is why the Graphtite gasket would be preferred for me.