I bought the ignition kit from performancedistributors.com and decided to gap the plugs at .060 since they said it would help. The car is running fine, but don't know if it would run better if it was gapped at .054 or something in between, what do you guys think?
Thanx
.054 is stock, but as a general rule you want to go as wide as you can before it doesn't spark reliably. Until that point, more gap == more horsepower.
Not that my point has much validity (when does it ), but when you are racing in restricted class, people look for all types of ways to make more horsepower, especially in single clutch-type setups where the motor makes way more horsepower than what it puts down.
In NASCAR, they don't gap the plugs. That results in zero horsepower lost. But like I said, the comparison between a Cup car and a street car has virtually no validity.
Go with .060 gap. You've got a hotter harder spark. It'll be fine...