yes, still on the original trans and yes sounds exactly like my problem other than haven't really noticed a loud noise from the trans, although there seems to be some noise when going in and out of gear and other hard shifting... I'm going to check the EGR, Fuel Filter, fuel pump and change the remaining plugs and wires this weekend... I'll probably head to the shop if it's still having issue's... Had codes pulled on it last week at Autozone (won't buy their parts but nice to get codes pulled for free) came up and said that I had a mis-firing in cyl 1 (no surprise since that's the one i had the inferior cable on and i've already replaced) and that the EGR was having issue's, used sea foam (anybody interested in this trick pull the vac line off the brake and pour sea foam in the vac line while rev'ing the engine let sit a while, it'll run like crap for a hour or so but it clears the EGR and clean any carbon build up that might be on sensors)