Yes, you can, the shape of distributions are kept. However the normalization change. In the case you use scalefact and alpsfact in the run_card, this change of scales can be compensated by using the parameters %$PARP(64)$% and %$PARP(72)$%. Let's see this in more details:

For ME, the parameters are as follows:

• scalefact multiplies the (linear) factorization scale and
  • for non-matched production also the renormalization scale since those are set equal in this case
  • for matched production the renormalization scale of QCD vertices that are not considered "extra jet" vertices
• alpsfact multiplies the renormalization scale for extra jets for matched production only.

For Pythia, the parameters are:

• For spacelike showers: PARP(64) is factor of %$K_{T}^{{2}$% (note squared, so alpsfact=2 corresponds to PARP(64)=4)}
• For timelike showers: %$\Lambda_{QCD}$% is given in PARP(72), so this value should be multiplied by 0.5 when alpsfact is 2, and by 2 when alpsfact is 0.5. The default value is 0.25 !GeV.

-- Main.SimonDeVisscher - 02 Mar 2009