>I think you'd be way better off epoxying a small magnet to your harmonic
>balancer and mounting a Hall Effect sensor to read it.

Hmm, only give one pulse per revolution. I would look at something that 
would sense the starter ring gear teeth - lots of pulses per rev. 

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