Hey people, can someone tell me what to set the gap at on the Mopar Performance Electronic Distributors? I forget. Old age is sitting in. lol. Thanks.

0.008 using a brass feeler gauge..

Just my $0.02..

That seems about right from memory.

It'll get worse!

I never seem to forget stuff like that. The gap for electronic dist with the brass feeler and the V8 firing order are a few things that are etched into my brain.

I have found over the years to check the parallelism between the reluctor and pickup is a good idea as they are sometimes tweaked. Also a good idea to check all 8 points and for play in the shaft. I have set them as wide as .010 to compensate when needed with no noticeable effect

I don't know about the MP distributor but I've run into a couple stock ones that as the vacuum advance moved the pickup plate, the gap decreased. I had one where the gap decreased to the point the reluctor contacted the pickup.

Only if you live long enough for that to set in

Had the same situation years ago. Couldn't believe engineers didn't anticipate that happening. Aftermarket ball bearing breaker plates solved the problem.

years ago one of our members from south america (Nacho) did something to his advance plate to where he got the change down to several thou iirc to resolve that. not sure what he did but you might eyeball it & see if anything jumps out at you that you might alter that will decrease the change.. EDIT I am thinking that he just relocated the pivot point so there was less arc in the sweep

Take the distributor out of the motor. Spin the shaft and look for the smallest gap and go from there.

^^^ this. find the one closest & set it at .008"

That's good advice. Thanks for that information.