Brian
Typically each pound of pressure over atmospheric will increase the boiling point of water by 3 deg.. This means doing the math that a 15 lb. cap will add 45 deg. to the boiling point of your coolant if it was straight water. (This is at sea level) A motor designed to run a 180 deg. thermostat will definitely see localized hot spots that can exceed the boiling point therefore adding 45 deg. of headroom is desireable. Also newer engines running higher pressure caps are typically designed for a 205 to 210 deg. thermostat, which was necessary to get the higher temps to energize cats and keep emissions in check. I would think some of those higher pressure caps as the 30 lb. are not necessary, especially since glycol also raises the boiling point somewhat and if you reach a point that a 15 lb. cap and 50 % glycol is not sufficient you probably have other issues like air pockets or insufficient cooling capacity as Jac Mac stated.
Like Russ and Jac Mac said a 15 lb. cap is fine keep your connections good, and purge any air and I would bet you have good results. Also consider a newer style cap that can take advantage of a coolant recovery bottle to insure that cycling the cooling system continually purges air by returning coolant as the system cools instead of creating a vacuum that can suck new air into the system
Hope some of this helps
Cheers
Phil