Dove had problems getting good castings---and the fact that someone stole a big pile of rejected parts piled-up outside his somewhat rural shop complex and then offered them for sale (without mentioning the details of origin) didn't help either.
Jim Dove got most of the experimental stuff, and all the molding equipment from Ford when they quit producing FEs after '76. He had an excellent head for engineering and his own design studio in the building adjacent to his house---available through a second story enclosed walkway from his bedroom. He had a Super Flow bench in this studio and the ability to create models and flow them while playing with shapes and sizes.
He had at least three exhaust designs available on his for-sale heads, and Cammer heads with rocker pedestals moved in order to get more favorable rocker ratios than the factory, limited, designs.
His ability to mix-'n'-match combustion chamber shapes, intake runner sizes and shapes and ditto on exhaust runners was almost infinite. I worked with him on TP heads with a non-Ford combustion chamber and his 'Type II' exhaust runners so different from factory that they were re-spaced, re-shaped, and substantially re-located. They went in Brother Lon's '67 Mustang, in a series for Mustang Illustrated Magazine. The Mustang was also a cover car for Super Ford.
Since Dove offered such a variety, You'll have to tell us what you have.
KS
