& HESITATION. Most of us thought it was bad fuel injectors or bad coil packs, even fuel pump, or fuel pump regulator. In my case it was just a BAD BATTERY. Have it checked 1st. Remember; KISS (keep it simple stupid); no pun intended, just an old IT acronym.

Battery icon on cluster did not indicate this,

 

Will do from now on out. Mine had a cracked IM so that I know contributed a lot to my issue.

 

Intake manifold; I bet that was loud? What kind of noise did it make?

 

Actually it wasn't because I attempted to ghetto rig it back together with our favorite...JB Weld! It sat alright but that doesn't mean the engine vacuum pressure agreed with my fix. Lol! Plus you couldn't hear it over the Stillen pop charger hissing.