Wow, you didn't spend all that much time with the external trigger!

Nope, with the external trigger the ICM does all the work. The problem with the external trigger is that it costs 150 bucks.

Any good resale value?

Haha, yeah. But that'* not really the point. I'm doing it just because everyone said that it cant be done.


Oh and it'* a lot of fun

you know jon.... bob was looking for one recently.

Yea, Bob bought one from britishcarconversions.com. Its the same trigger that wot sells by TCE.

that'* because it'* owned by Marc, he runs TCE and BCC.

I spent a good part of the day researching the LX9 reluctor and it'* events. It is in fact the same reluctor as the LS1 (it has the same pattern).

The question stuck in my mind is whether or not it has the same phasing (is TDC #1 compression stroke).

From this point on, I will assume that it is.

I started by plotting out the entire reluctor in a word processor.


https://i.imgur.com/of4Xv.png



https://i.imgur.com/jOCE1.png

You can see that I found 72 pulses. 72/3 is 24 events. Which means that each event is three pulses. So each cylinder gets 8 events or 24 pulses. For example, the first event for cylinder 1 is low low high or Y. The next event is low high high or X.
I used the following to determine phasing with the CMP sensor.


https://i.imgur.com/fppV8.gif


And this is the result:

https://i.imgur.com/mKtmO.jpg

Just the red markings. Ideally, the picture would be of the other side of the reluctor. I'll try to get a different picture so I can show the reluctor spinning in the correct direction.

This can easily be translated to decode a LS1 reluctor (since they are the same). Instead of each cylinder having 8 events, it has 6. So it would decode:
YXXXXX YXXXYY XXYYYX YXYYY

I got started on the wiring today. About 50% done.

Here'* the cam sensor wired in.

Just bought this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/gt30-...Q5fAccessories

and this:

http://www.diyautotune.com/catalog/i...796-p-152.html



Now back to work on the car!