well I ended up spending $360 to get it fixed...ripped off but my car works now.
what happened was the intake was grindin up against the intake sensor wires and they were shorting out...thats why it was running like crap and why it would stall sometimes for no reason.
so they gave me a new maf (i think, or atleast the plug on top is new) and they got rid of the old wires...everything works fine now.
