bad maf or not connected properly?
I connected the wires for the AFC so that one was directly to the MAF (bypassed any wiring through firewall & put wire directly off of sensor), and other directly to ECU and still had symptom. Right now I'm leaning in the direction of a good MAF cleaning - never been done & I have ~137,000 miles on the car. While I'm at it, I'm gonna clean the EGR sensor as well. I figure those are cheap and might get me a resolution. If not, I'm not sure....can't imagine the MAF being shot if it runs fine in stock config....but from what I've read on here stranger things have happened (really hoping it's not though - I need other things too like tires!). Gonna pick up some cleaners tonight and hope to have more answers soon. I'll try to post up what kinda results I get in hopes that it serves the community in the event this ever happens to anyone else.