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^^^^^^^^^ First thing I noticed in the pics.Take a look at your old HG.
Almost all the coolant holes on the gasket are blocked.
No wonder it was overheating.
That's caused from over extended coolant drain intervals and/or the wrong type of coolant in the past (dex-cool) before you owned the car.
That could be.
I made my "coolant holes blocked" declaration based on my gasket coolant holes location and the first pic I saw of your old one.
In that picture it looked like the front coolant hole was blocked, but now I see on another pic that it is indeed not blocked.
I see that your new gasket has blocked off the coolant holes between 4&5 and 2&3. So if your old gasket is similar to your new one, then those holes are not plugged either...they just don't exist.
Not trying to throw a lot of chaos into your project, it's just that these very different head gaskets are alarming. And the last thing you (or I) want to do is find out the wrong (or not best) gasket got installed when everything is all buttoned up.