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I just installed my MSD 6A as well as new 9mm MSD wires, new cap rotor blaster TFI coil new Accel TFI module, should i open up the spark gap a little? I though i heard somewhere that you could run a little more gap if you got enough juice.
 

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I would just leave it at the stock gap
 

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What are the mods?
 
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its mostly stock, the only mods being exhaust/gears ignition. I just thought i heard that you could open up the gap a little if you had an MSD box and coil
 

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You can open the gap with the box if you choose. You would have to just keep opening it till you get a cut out and then back it down some. I'm too lazy to do stuff like that but you sure can.

Thanks for the mods info - I hate saying something like to open a gap, and then it turns out the poster runs 10 PSI and nitrous.

Good luck.
 
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thanks for the info you are always there to help when i have a question Hissin
 

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If you do open it up, I dont think I would go too far past the Stock Gap of .054
 

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Shaker's right. I should have prefaced what I said with my thought that 0.060" is probably about as far as you'd get and maintain enduring tractability.

And thanks for the kind words. I dont help folks out much, but I lend moral support on their threads.
 
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