Hello all,
I am getting pretty close here to dropping my motor in and getting busy with the FAST install finally, but I have been thinking some and had an idea to toss out there. It's about the crank trigger/cam sensor setup for the sequential system.
Basically the crank trigger needs to signal at every spark event, and the cam needs to signal once every other revolution correct? I currently have an MSD inductive pickup distributor for my 5.0L (MSD 8582) and was planning on just picking up the MSD crank trigger setup to go with it and taking off the tangs for everything but cylinder #1 on the distributor so that it will act as a cam sensor. I had another idea though when I was installing the cam.
there is an eccentric on the end of the cam, not sure if it's for balance or what it's really for, but it's ferrous so I was thinking that i could make a provision to mount a hall-effect sensor in the timing cover to read that as my cam signal and use the distributor as the crank sensor.
Any reason this wouldn't work? How long can the cam signal be before the FAST gets confused? Has this been done allready and if so how did it work out?
Thanks in advance guys,
Eric
I am getting pretty close here to dropping my motor in and getting busy with the FAST install finally, but I have been thinking some and had an idea to toss out there. It's about the crank trigger/cam sensor setup for the sequential system.
Basically the crank trigger needs to signal at every spark event, and the cam needs to signal once every other revolution correct? I currently have an MSD inductive pickup distributor for my 5.0L (MSD 8582) and was planning on just picking up the MSD crank trigger setup to go with it and taking off the tangs for everything but cylinder #1 on the distributor so that it will act as a cam sensor. I had another idea though when I was installing the cam.
there is an eccentric on the end of the cam, not sure if it's for balance or what it's really for, but it's ferrous so I was thinking that i could make a provision to mount a hall-effect sensor in the timing cover to read that as my cam signal and use the distributor as the crank sensor.
Any reason this wouldn't work? How long can the cam signal be before the FAST gets confused? Has this been done allready and if so how did it work out?
Thanks in advance guys,
Eric