unknown part

so, after being up on jack stands for the past few months I finally pulled the old bird out of the garage last night, she is running really rough, I know it needs new plugs, wires ect but while I was looking for the cause of the rough idle (which leads to the car dying after about 2-5 minutes) I noticed this part which has a couple of vacuum lines on it that are not going anywhere. which leads to 2 questions, 1- what is this part? and 2- could this be causing the rough idle?

 

Should be the EGR solenoid, one line goes to the EGR under the plenum. The other I believe runs up to the throttle body where it splits off the the charcoal canister as well

 

it mounts on the ignition coil and lower mounting bracket.

 

are you sure? it seems like that bracket just kinda hanging there is working pretty well lol. thank you guys, hope to get this straightened out with the rest of my vacuum system now that I have a new vacuum canister without a hole in it

 

so I'm assuming this is probably the cause of the rough idle/ slow painful sounding dying? lol

 

Could be bad gas, especially if you have 93/94 octane in your tank and it has been sitting more than 3 months. Toss in a few gallons of fresh fuel and see if that helps.