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My 3.2 is randomly dying. It's irritating.

This winter I dropped the engine on my 3.2 and replaced a bunch of components.

A few months ago when I started driving it daily I noticed that every once in a while I would get very faint momentary loss in power. Barely perceptible.

It has not progressed. My car randomly dies now. Unfortunately all I have to do is coast to a stop and it starts right up again. I wish it would die and stay dead so I could properly diagnose this.

-The car dies instantly, there is no cough or sputter. It's like someone killed it with a key.
-Starts right up after I have come to a stop.
-If I leave it in gear while I am coasting the tach still reads (I think this has some sensor and DME implications)
- It's random. It might do it three times in a row in a minute and then not do it again for a few hours.
-This feels like an electrical issue.
-It never did this before it went under the knife.

Thoughts? I really don't want to randomly replace parts. I want to diagnose.

The only thing I can think of is a bad DME connection (I had an issue when I first put it back together) or maybe the coil (I never replaced it)
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