"sense?" LMAO, had to...
I'm still lost. Do we agree that your car has the CAS behind the intake cam gear? The wiring when done by hand according to the RRE site will require lengthening the wires to reach over to the passenger side of the head, where the 1g cas and 97-99 cas mounts up. If you get the adapter harness I mentioned above it is long enough to make the reach over there FYI. It definitely does not plug right in. The 1g cas works entirely different than the 2g setup. RRE has the wiring diagrams. There are 2 versions, ignore the fancy one with the chip, you can invert the cas signal in DSMlink.
I think I may have found the source of the condusion... You don't have the wiring harness/pigtail for the 1g CAS do you
You'll need that, unless you get the plug and play harness mentioned above.