Well I just spent an hour messing with the height and I just could not get my ears to love this pickup in this guitar at all. I don't know, is this guitar just so ridiculously bright that anything that hot just doesn't sound good? I don't want a vintage sound on this guitar, I want 80's hair metal, and all I hear is severely overdriven vintage with this HD/Charvel pairing, at any height.
BTW, I'm playing through a Marshall JVM, all the gain from the amp, no pedals. My Hamer Standard (mahogany body, set neck) with a JB in the bridge hits the hair metal tones at the same settings.