Had stuff come up last night. Nice thing is I think the desktop pc will stay running for more than an hour now.
Anyhow, to the white piece of dog turd. Checked misfires and found 2/5 coil to be bad. Apparently swapped a questionable one in the previous night. Fixed that and test drove.. no change to original issue. Swapped the TPS, no change. Pulled a plug. Still gapped at .060" copper core NGK TR55. Electrode slightly erroded. I'm seeing some occasional misfires and that probably explains when the rpm dip, which wasn't happening in the last trans. Still getting some upward rpm hiccups as well.
Going to toss some plugs into it and scan again for misfires. Probably pull the connector off the trans and look for backed out pins. There's no data to support what is happening and it's tough to believe that a new trans is suffering the same issue as the 194K mile one. Especially when parts of this trans have been run by me w/o issues in other cars. Problem has to be on the vehicle/engine.
