I have been after a header for some time now and finaly got a used Rods Header off TF. ( It had a broken tap in it) Most of you know me and my 86 1E SVO. This all started back in 97 when I bought my car from the Best Man from my wedding. He lived in Long Beach and bought the car new. I had only had the car for one year and I took the car out in spring and cranked the boost controller and bent all the intake valves. It seems the stock springs weren't up to what ever I threw at them (stock boost gauge) and so it started. I knew nothing about turbo Fords and the OOA was no help. (I had no computer back then). I did however get an Essilinger catalog along with the car! Determined not to bend valves again I ordered stainless stock valves (the head had been cracked before and my buddy thought he had it welded) and heavy duty springs from Esslinger. The machine shop I worked through ran into clearance problems with the retainers and followers. They clearanced the bottom of the followers to clear the retainers. While I had the head apart in 98 I took after it with my die grinder and did a pocket port job on it. I ran it this way until 2 years ago when a HLA went south and I decided to put in a RR cam. This swap brought up the clearance problem again and I had to get different locks from Bo to lower the installed height of the spring. Ever since the roller followers have been in the valve train has been noisy and after inspection I realized that the little clearance I had wasn't enough. So when I bought the Header I decided winter was the time to do the head with proper parts in the proper way.