Blown out Spark Plug on 01 GT - Performance Shop Recommendations

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2010
Blown out Spark Plug on 01 GT - Performance Shop Recommendations

Driving home yesterday I had one of the spark plugs blow out of my cylinder head.

It's a 2001 GT with the 2V 4.6L engine. Reading other forums, it appears this is not an uncommon problem.

The issue is it also damaged the threads in the aluminum head. Now my choices are to either replace the head (read expensive) or try to repair the head with some sort of insert, like the time-sert.

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