I doubt the dealer will sell the CS pigtail so I'm going to try and replace the wires in my sensor plug. Any idea where to get replacement pins? I was going to check radio shack.

 

i would definitely recommend the trigger disc. The set up instructions that come with it are not the best, but tobz spent a good amount of time tweaking them and my car starts just like a stock ecu car. i hated how the aem started without it and it was pretty embarrassing, but the trigger disc fixed all of that.

 

Thanks! I was planning on doing this over the winter and its good to hear Brian has done this before.

 

Its interesting to read others were having this same problem. I had this problem with my Evo. The car would stutter and backfire any time I went over 3000rpm. I replaced a bunch of stuff in the ignition thinking that was the problem but it ended up being the cam sensor. I replaced it with an duralast one which i wouldnt normally have used but i thought of the cam sensor being the problem on a whim and i did have a mitsubishi dealership close by so i picked one up at the local auto parts store. After that I haven't had a problem with it since then (logged over 7k miles). One thing I found was the resistance was noticeably different between the two sensor (maybe a sign of a faulty one? Idk).

 

Call up Tony Palo. He sells a magnetic pickup that can be inset into your cam gear that solves this issue.

www.t1racedevelopment.com

 

all i can figure is that the cam sensor is just telling it which cylinder to start firing as the crank rotates 2 times per cam revolution, shutting it off after it syncs and starts sounds like the best idea. can anyone shed any light on how to set this up?

 

for evos now ? thats sweet alot of hondas run his cam trigger setup and it does its job.

 

If you can drill holes in your cam gear I don't see any reason why you couldn't set it up in the AEM... after all it is an AEM specific problem

 

stupid aem! i almost wish i kept the hydra out of my sti and bought an evo harness for it.

 

Shawn, if you decide to do the triggerdisc thing, let me know. I bought the Buschur kit but ended up not using it.

Aaron

 

I got a vipec

 

Thanks. A little more I want to spend but if it comes down to it, I will go with something like this. There's got to be a way to improve the factory one. I don't see why a custom piece with magnets could go in the cam sensor location that spins and a hall effect sensor could go in the stock sensor location.

Still waiting for the pigtail to get here.

PM'd you Aaron about the trigger disk.

 

Your solution is to use a better EMS that doesn't require additional hardware.

 

Not enough funds at the moment so AEM will have to suffice.

Edit: Pigtail came in today. Totally different plug. Removed the wrong info above so nobody makes the same mistake. Rockauto was totally off on that part. Plug fits 95 DSM, not 98.

Edit II: Found spoolinup.com carries the pigtail so I ordered one from them.

 

keep us updated i think i may swap mine i am thinking the pins may be lose from me depining them a few times.