Also the front struts were revalved to better control lift on acceleration and dive on braking.
It is about the time that Ford decontented the front brakes from the early SVT calipers to the late SVT calipers (same calipers as non SVT). Ford claims in their parts catalog that this change was 5/99, but our experience here at CEG is that it was much earlier, perhaps as early as the change from E0 to E1.