Going COP

Right, going to change my ecu in coming months wanted to do a cop conversion. For crank trigger was thinking of 60-2 wheel and for cam was thinking of this. They have a different wheel setup for gtir(double the price) but i don't see why this one won't work. All inputs are welcome why it would/wouldn't work

Is there a reason why you don't want to use your dissy triggers? Aem make a lower slot count disc for them.

One you link to only has the home position reference, you would want one with multiple trigger wheel .
Like ducie suggests, the lower resolution discs for standard distributor cas is a great and low cost way get cam reference .
discs are cheap and custom effort on cap cover plate and you got cas much same physically as the nissan cas for cop ...

Thanks guys for you're input! But would it work, all i need from cam is reference point for ecu when to fire, right?

Cam sensor in pic wouldn't work for sequential ignition, standard cas with lower resolution disc would and it cheap like less than 50euros .
The multitooth cam trigger kits are probably more like 400 euro for not much benefit over a healthy cas setup .

John from Nismotronic is working on a COP add-on option for his Nemu ADC board. As soon as it's released I'm making the switch from Nistune.  No fancy $1500 standalone needed.

And yea Asta, the AEM trigger disc is all you need. It's like $40 lol

@Ryaneg6freak wrote:John from Nismotronic is working on a COP add-on option for his Nemu ADC board. As soon as it's released I'm making the switch from Nistune.  No fancy $1500 standalone needed.

And yea Asta, the AEM trigger disc is all you need. It's like $40 lol

I know it will work but i was/am asking if that would work as well. There's plenty good/cheap ecu's around making good power.

You need a trigger on the crank as well. Cam position like the pic is only #1 TDC position.

Just be carfull as the wheel design for hall and reluctor sensors are different. Plus it's easy to wire both wrong so a oscilloscope trace is needed.

You need an ecu that has the ability to change the offset to correct timing position and to be able to keep constant delay over the rev range.

You also need to make sure both the triggers don't have the teeth crossing each sensor at the same time.

Whats the advantage of the lower resolution AEM disc?

Excuse my ignorance but, isn't there any other Nissan with CoP that could be adapted to our engines with less hassle? Maybe off of an RB20DET for example?
Just askin'

To go coil on plug all you NEED is a ecu that can drive smart coils. You DONT need to change the gtir dissy to run coil on plug.

@ducie54 wrote:To go coil on plug all you NEED is a ecu that can drive smart coils. You DONT need to change the gtir dissy to run coil on plug.

The ecu needs to get the position of the crank and cam in order to fire and inject, since our engines don't have crank trigger nor cam then how the ecu will know when to fire or inject? Doesn't have to be a smart coil, ecu gives 5v out and you can choose either smart or dumb with igniter. Or i have understood something wrong

@gtir_woody wrote:Whats the advantage of the lower resolution AEM disc?

You can get trigger errors at high rpm due to the super high stock tooth count ( 1 for every degree, 180 counts for 1 crank revolution) .
Lots of ways do cop and will vary pending on components/type, I don't know all of them . reusing the cas and making the signal reliable is simple and pretty effective . lot of people used toothed crank with single cam reference but I prefer using the cas over a single reference cam gear kit .

@ducie54 wrote:You need a trigger on the crank as well. Cam position like the pic is only #1 TDC position.

Just be carfull as the wheel design for hall and reluctor sensors are different. Plus it's easy to wire both wrong so a oscilloscope trace is needed.

You need an ecu that has the ability to change the offset to correct timing position and to be able to keep constant delay over the rev range.

You also need to make sure both the triggers don't have the teeth crossing each sensor at the same time.

Lucky for me I own a Snap On Modis Ultra 4 channel labscope.

@astarozna wrote:

@ducie54 wrote:To go coil on plug all you NEED is a ecu that can drive smart coils. You DONT need to change the gtir dissy to run coil on plug.

The ecu needs to get the position of the crank and cam in order to fire and inject, since our engines don't have crank trigger nor cam then how the ecu will know when to fire or inject? Doesn't have to be a smart coil, ecu gives 5v out and you can choose either smart or dumb with igniter. Or i have understood something wrong

Inside the dissy under the rotor button there are 2 optical sensors. One reads cylinder tdc position and the other reads crank angle. Trigger 1 and 2 as some call it. I've used the stock dissy to run CDI.

@Ryaneg6freak wrote:

@ducie54 wrote:You need a trigger on the crank as well. Cam position like the pic is only #1 TDC position.

Just be carfull as the wheel design for hall and reluctor sensors are different. Plus it's easy to wire both wrong so a oscilloscope trace is needed.

You need an ecu that has the ability to change the offset to correct timing position and to be able to keep constant delay over the rev range.

You also need to make sure both the triggers don't have the teeth crossing each sensor at the same time.

Lucky for me I own a Snap On Modis Ultra 4 channel labscope.

Buy a good ecu and a 2 channel osillicsope comes build in. Comes in handy when you need to check wiring polarity and set threshold voltages.

"the trigger disc we made for the SR20 was essentially the same as the AEM unit and we found it worked well with a stock SR20 but with a modified engine it wasn't a 100% solution. Any time you're taking the engine position data from a distributor drive you're introducing some possible noise into the system. Inevitably there will be some backlash in the distributor drive as well free play in the cam chain itself. This can result in harmonics that may affect the accuracy of the timing"
From Hpacademy

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The stock timing and injection all uses data via the cas which basically is a cam position sensor, reality is it pretty decent if cas mechanical components in good order.
Even with cam gear mounted sensor you get some drift between cam and crank correlation due to chain lash ect.
You can run most scenarios with just a cam sensor but you can't do everything with just crank as it still needs a minimum single reference from cam to know actual cylinder cycle .
Your original concept of crank sensor and the single reference cam is good, you can reuse cas if it up to your needs.

Stock cas is ok with loads of stand alone ecu if you don't want to go too crazy on rpm.  I've mapped link plug in for s15 on my last project ant it's running fine without any sync loss on standard cas disc. I've got ecumasters emu wire in ecu and I'm using cas without issue as well. I had occasional miss between 5 and 6k rpm but I can turn on sync without cam and it runs sweet since. Some ecus with stronger trigger filtering might struggle with nissans cas that's why aem released their cas disc as resolution on it is not as fine. Saying that I'll be doing hall sensor and 60-1 wheel for the crank and trying to use cam sync from cas but I've got some baaaad ideas

Forgot to add that on both Link and Emu I'm using Audi red coils