I am aware of that, I wasn't asking about what to buy - but if it sounded like a familiar symptom. It's not my car so I don't have the freedom of going and messing with it whenever I want, I was just asking people who may have experienced it if it sounded like the kind of thing they see... buying a trigger setup like that would be pointless if there is no triggering issue at all and it turned out to be cam timing/something else related.
The owner of the car doesn't have heaps of money to throw around to fix it, otherwise he'd probably just drop it off to Speedtech and get them to make it good.