Recommendations for good "A" street header

My TTIs were new in 1999. For the first five or six years, I drove that car 4 seasons. In 2004 or 05, I had the engine out for the last time, and the merges at the top where the salt and sand collect had become perforated. I welded them up and they went another 6 years, now as a part time car and weekend bomber. Around 2010 or 2012, I patched then again.
Those headers now have well over 125,000 miles on them, and If I put new merges on them, I guess they could go another 10 years.
BTW
The gaskets have never burned out, altho I replaced them one time, And the bolts never loose their torque. The nickle-coated pipes show no sign of perforation.I guess they'll go another 10 yrs, lol; for a total of 30 years.
Do the math; Mine were $495 back in 1999. That maths to $24.75 per year (on 20 years) plus merge repair; and still on second set of gaskets..

Couple that to the fact that I can hammer speed pumps, catch air, and mount curbs, with impunity, and not start grass-fires; I say TTIs for the win !!
No mine did not fit perfect, but I am a mechanic; I have tools. I solved the problems and made then fit. I also have a 4-speed, power brakes, power-steering, 1.03 T-bars, Milodon RoadRace oilpan, and the mini-starter was a big plus. I made it work with the factory Z-bar nocutting/nowelding; but yeah that was tight. And there is no way you can adjust the freeplay with hot pipes. But I figured out a way around that too.

If I had to do it over again, the only thing I would do different would be to cut and fit a patch in the top merge, so snow/salt/sand can not collect there, and I would do this before I installed them,lol. Or more likely I would call TTI and see if they could supply a slip-fit merge, yeah I like that idea.......