TL;DR located at the bottom
This car is starting to frustrate me and of course the car has become undrivable due to the random drops of a few hundred rpm and it'll randomly turn off during idle sometimes. What better time than the day school starts, i can't find the key to the truck, and it is entirely too hot to ride the motorcycle and still be able to be in a hot classroom?
A few updates though:
Sunday I replaced the spark plugs (manually gapped them), ignition coils, and wires, reset the CEL and the car felt like it ran 1000x better. Didn't drive it until yesterday morning to work and the car felt worse than before.
So I got some money to get a cam position sensor and got my girlfriend to grab it from autozone and drop it off at school while I was in class. I get out of class and attempt to replace it in the school parking lot, I pull the old one out to compare and notice the magnetic cylinder on the end was a different size. Autozone's website said it was a direct replacement for the fs-de so I figured maybe it was an updated part or something. Screw it in and try to put on the connector and it won't snap into place. so I threw in the old one and limped the car to the same autozone where the cashier tried to argue with me. Asking me what car, I told him and only the protege came up and he didn't listen when I told him as long as it is the So again (this time with the engine piping hot) i remove the sensor yet again to show the clerk. he compares them and yet again says they're the same part.So at this point I get pissed and tell him it won't fit in the car and he replies it is the same part. So i told him it won't fit, why would I lie. So he goes outside and tries to shove the connector on and whaddya know, it didn't fit
so at this point I'm pissed from him trying to force s*** on that obviously doesn't fit and I couldn't even return it cause the card to buy it and the receipt was with her at the house. So again I grab the car and limp it the 25 minutes home and try to make it to another closer autozone to exchange it or to check to see if I had gotten the wrong part. Go to the one close to my house and find out the box was listed as a CRANK position sensor (looked like the cam however), but they didn't have it in stock. So found yet another one that was 20 minutes away that had one in stock. (it was 9:30 at this point and they close at 10). So I drive out there and they have it mislabeled or something.
(I just checked the site again and they have the cam sensor for the 626 listed as a complete different price, part number, and everything)
So I went this morning to a pick n pull and grabbed one from a 626 which got rid of the P0340 but it is still misfiring just as bad and even more undrivable.
TL;DR
I have replaced the intake tube, spark plugs, wires, coils, and the cam position sensor and the car still barely runs. I am lost at this point. The tech I know said clean the throttle body so I will tomorrow before class