Quote: Alignment can be also be done on the bench using an old cap with holes drilled in it. Line up the reluctor with the pickup and look thru the spark plug wire hole to see if the alignment is correct Or align rotor with spark plug hole, remove cap and check reluctor to pick up alignment
The vac adv plays an important part in where the "zero" position of the pickup ends up. Many times shimming the vac adv away from the housing quickly corrects any offset. You can also shorten the length of the arm on the vac adv as well if you are creative enough. Typically you will need to space the canister away from the dist body or shorten the arm length to correct any misalignments.
Again I will emphasize how much better any car runs with a phased distributor.
The pic shows the typical misalignment
let me ask- this picture shows a misalignment at idle. but, when the distributor starts advancing, the pickup will move counterclockwise and brign the misalignment back into alignment, won't it? so the net effect would be proper rotor phasing at higher rpm where its more important.
Once the rotor/terminal & reluctor tooth/pickup is phased it is not affected by mechanical or initial changes. The relationship between the relutctor and rotor is fixed and the position of the pickup to the terminal is fixed also. Only when the vacuum advance comes in will it go out of whack because the pickup now moved in relation to the cap terminal.
If your not running vac advance just shoot for dead on but with vacuum advance perhaps you want to adjust it so that the rotor is equidistant from the terminal a zero vacuum to max advance????
2017 Contusion Blue Challenger T/A 392 M6 "BLKNBLU"
