Chilton's is junk. I like alldatadiy.com, $25 a year to get all the factory mechanical and electrical diagrams and torque specs etc etc. Or just get the factory service manual. Trying to do serious work with a Chilton's will make you go nuts.
TPS is trivial to test with an ohmmeter, it's just a variable resistor. I don't know offhand what the correct values are but if you some resistance at one end and some different resistance at the other that is a good sign. If it's dead it will probably be shorted or open.
Again you need air fuel compression and spark (with correct timing) to run. So check the obvious. Is your air filter clogged? Are you REALLY getting good fuel pressure, even when you throttle up? (Borrow a fuel rail pressure guage from autozone maybe?) You can buy a cheap compression tester for $20 that will be invaluable any time you buy a used car in the future. NEVER test for spark by shorting the ignition to ground, you will blow up your coil/module. Either pull a spark plug and look for spark in the gap, or buy a $5 inline spark gap doohicky. Timing is tough to screw up on these engines since it's computerized. It either works or it doesn't. If it doesn't, it could be plugs, wires, cap, rotor, coil, HEI module, or any of the engine sensors. Let us not forget the O2 sensor, definately a suspect.
Anyway you can play johnny-fool-around forever trying to guess what's wrong, best to divide and conquor. If you don't have the right tools to do that, buy beg borrow or steal.
