PLEASE HELP: 3sge distributor, 5sfe ecu. Anyway to adapt camshaft position sensors :(

[bajachris88]

I have been stewing on this for a while now :(

My pride and joy is sitting there just waiting to get out of that garage.

I'm building a 5s-ge, its ready to go, all is left is this distributor to sort out.

5sfe distributor shaft does not fit in the head, only the 3sge one fits snug. However, the sensors inside are different.

The 5sfe has one pick up sensor, and a cog with 4 teeth

The 3sge has 2 pick up sensors, and a cog with 1 tooth.

In desperation, I initially plugged up the 3sge distributor, ignoring G2 pickup sensor and just running with G1 to attempt to mimic the single pickup in the 5sfe (while being stupidly ignorant to the teeth on the cog) and, car didn't run smooth at all, was backfiring and spitting and everything, regardless if i retarded it heaps, or advanced it heaps. AND CRAZY OF ALL, although the coolant temperature was normal, the exhaust manifold became red glowing hot!. Not good.

So....

I chopped up and modded a 5sfe distributor to have a longer shaft to sit in the 3sge head, along with a longer hold down bolt . At first trial it worked perfect. car ran like a dream. 2nd go, it fell to bits. Taking into consideration the engine was only doing 3000rpm, that means the dissy was spinning at 50 times per second and the non' professionally machined and non-professionally balanced stuff just fell apart. The modded 5sfe distributor just didn't sit right anyways.

So i'm looking into some form of electronic manipulation instead of mechanical. what can i do? if i change to a 1986 ecu than it won't work with my set of guages inside, and will have to change all my other sensors and the loom.

I just wanna plug a flush seated distributor (like the 3sge one) with the right signals going to the ecu. The guts just can't be removed from the 5sfe and bolted into the 3sge without having to hack it up.

IF worst comes to worst, what kinda workshop would be best to help solve this problem?