Which cam sensor to use?

[Apistol]

Wow tough forum to get into! I bought a 1995 tsi and it has the cam angle sensor unhooked on the valve cover. After reading I see that 95 uses the one under the intake gear. Alright cool, no problem. My car is mostly stock, other the no cats on factory exhaust and 1g bov It runs great in 1st... But really has no top end past....5k.
Anyhow, I'd like to play with timing a bit, so I hooked up the cam angle sensor on the valve cover and plugged the harness in and the car misses... Like out of firing order. I find some diagrams on here and someone had a post up that said "non 95/96 with 95 ecu on it." 3-4-2-1 is my current firing order. I switch things around a bit, trying 1g firing orders and several others and can't get the car to do more than rough idle for a few seconds using the valve cover cas so I left it alone and hooked it up the way it was.

The question is, what do I have? A mutant? Do you think my cas is 180 out? It's in the middle as far as timing adjustment. I've read also something about having to maybe rewire the injectors but the miss issue now doesn't seem thats the problem. Thanks!

Adam

 

[Boostinsideways]

Looking at the coil pack from left to right firing order for a 1g in a 95-96

2-3-4-1

You also need to swap some pins on the bottom connector to the ecu. Its located under the center console. Remove the lower kick plate on the driver side. 2 phillips head screws.

Then use a tiny jewlers screw driver to release the safty catches and swap the pins per the Magnus Motorsports 1gin2g.pdf

http://magnusmotorsports.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/1gina2g.pdf

Pin 1 Green Wire is now Pin 14
Pin 2 Green / Yellow Stripe is now pin 1
Pin 15 Green / Red Stripe is now pin 2
Pin 14 Yellow / Black stripe is now pin 1

if the cas is 180 out the car won't crank at all. Most likely your injector wires are just out of phase.

 

[Apistol]

Very, very helpfull! Swapping pins is definatly easier than cutting and splicing wires. So then the person before me most likely swapped the head on my car then with a 1g? Or do you think they added the cas, though not being hooked up it's doubtfull. I will work on the car tonight and post what I found out.

 

[MathixPerforman]

Also check your tps sensor, it may not be the problem but I dealt with no power after 5k also and it turned out that the tps was only set to 94% at full throttle so I rotated it and got it to 98% at wide open throttle. Like I said just a thouht

 

[HaveBlue83]

they probably had the 1g cas and link in there & when they sold it reverted back to the 95 sensors and kept the custom harness.

i have a 95 and the sensors on them are HORRIBLE. I almost sold my car because of them until I found out about the 1g cas swap. i have yet to swap pins (this weekend

you will most likely have random misfire CEL come on and the car will sputter intermittently if you decide to use the 1g CAS. this is normal. as soon as u can save up for DSMlink so u can use the 1g sensor as its so much better. you just turn off rmf monitoring in link and check the "use 1g cas" box and its good to go.

and why is it better? no redoing a timing belt for a bad sensor anymore