Well I'm going to guess I have .010"-.020" of deck above the piston. The piston was almost even with the deck surface. It couldn't have been any more than that. How do you check it with the cylinder heads on?

I think I may have made a mistake on the KB calculator. It looks like they want you to take After BDC and add 15 degrees to it. So 48 After BDC + 15 is 63. This changes the dynamic compression completely... This is worst case scenario with .020" deck.

Static Compression: 9.847
Dynamic Compression: 7.981

Is this right? Could the dynamic compression be that low?

If this is correct, than I will take the heads off and check the deck height to make sure, and if it is .020" deck than I will go with a .015" head gasket to solve the quench issue and hopefully raise my dynamic compression up to a reasonable number.

With a deck of .020" and head gasket of .015" I get...
Static Compression: 10.419
Dynamic Compression: 8.432

Is this good enough?