Engle valve springs

That looks terrible to me. Something is drastically wrong. The retainers can be a little smaller o.d. than the springs and it'll be ok. The problem is your retainers aren't sitting down into the springs. That tells me the step on the retainer is larger than the i.d. of the spring. Each step of the spring should fit snug into the each spring (the inner and outer). If they're sloppy that's bad cause it'll let them walk around and produce harmonics and if they don't engage like yours it's bad. I wonder if something was packaged wrong?