Studdering under acceleration.

Oh gawd how I hope my car isn't shitting me. 98 RS, just changed my oil and spark plugs about 3 days ago. One thing I noticed I was changing my spark plugs, my number 3 spark plug wire won't "click" down like the others do when you push them onto the spark plugs. Now at first it was fine, the car ran like normal. Now today, I drove home, everything was cool, then I turn the car back on to go somwhere else and immediately felt a lope in the rpm's during idle. Oh shit I thought to myself, but I wanted to drive it to make sure I'm not just hearing things. Sure enough, during acceleration mainly in 2nd and 3rd gear, the car studders and you can hear the engine studdering to. At one point the "Check Engine" light came on and I drove slowly home. But any kind of normal accleration out of 3rd gear and hard acceleration out of 2nd studders big time. For whatever reason 1st gear was normal. So anyways, any ideas on whats going on? I'm hoping its just that number 3 spark plug but then again the wire won't snap on for shit. Oh and btw they're Denso plugs. Thanks.

Sounds like to change the wires and see if that fixes it. Best guess I got.

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Did you drop a plug when you were putting them in? I dropped one of my plugs and used it anyways, 3 months later my ignition coil went out. Im not sayin that caused my coil to go out, but you never know

Nope didn't drop any but I've found the problem I think. The part of the wire that goes into the valve cover (I forgot what its called) is cracked and split up a side of it. So no biggie, just gotta get some new wires.

While your at it, put in some NGK plugs and get rid of the Denso's. Might have better luck.

Next oil change I'll consider that, the plugs are only 3 days old.

but also very cheep and ngks will definatly outperform those denso's

Yeah, new wires should deffinatly fix the problem. Same thing was happening to my dad's s-10. Changed the plugs...didn't help. Changed the wires and it was all gravy.