I have a 3sgte turbo running an emu black that was recently tuned with a racerx trigger wheel on the crank. Car ran fine for a year at the track and I was told by the tuner that if I ever wanted to swap to a direct fire ignition system and eliminate the distributor it was very easy with a few adjustments to the ECU. Fast forward a year and I have installed the rest of the racerx kit as linked below along with a coil on plug kit which replaces the distributor with a Hall sensor and spark plugs with COP.
I have pulled the spark plugs and have marked the crank wheel timing mark for easy visibility. Ive checked timing on many cars so I understand the basics of using cyl #1 for the timing light and what you are visually looking for. I have locked the timing in the ECU at 15 degrees, turned off the injectors, and cranked the engine. The light is clicking away but the timing mark is no where to be seen. I have adjusted the “Trigger Angle” from 30 all the way to 120 and I still dont see the mark show up. Maybe I need to adjust “output offset” but I hate to keep making adjustments without knowing if im making maters worse but that seemed to be the closest in the first start checklist to match my issue. Again the car ran fine until I removed the distributor and replaced it with a Hall Sensor.
What are my next steps. I am guessing the timing is 180 degrees off but not sure what I need to adjust. I’ve been going through hpacademy to learn the topic but couldn’t find a solution. I did understand that there are situations where you get the timing mark to show at your selected setting but the car wont start and that is a sign you have the timing off 180 degrees but in my case I cant get the timing mark to show up while cranking. Thoughts?