I need help. Ive tried everything I could think of and have gotten nowhere. I returned my car to stock and it ran fine. Shut off the car went inside and got ready for work. before i went to work i thought i would change out my spark plug wires really quick. swapped them and then my car starts really bad and backfires and sounds like a subaru with no cats. i swapped them back and no change. not sure what to do here. need some advice.

 

You're kiddin right?

 

Umm you have a bad connection on one or a tear in the wire. Very simple.

 

You put stock wires back on?

 

+1

 

what type of wires did you install? You got all the right wires to the right holes?

 

if it was a tear then y do both sets of wires cause the same problem? i had ralliart wires and they are all in the right holes. i only got 2 of them. 1 is twice as long as the other and they are labeled 1 and 3

 

Wait you just said in your first post that it did not start to happen until you changed your wires. Which is it?

 

it didnt start happening till after i swapped the wires. then i swapped the first set back in and its still doing the same thing....

 

That wasn’t clear in your first post. Could have just fouled a plug with a bad wire, did you take a look at them?

 

ya i think thats the problem. im waiting to get a plug puller to check them...

 

Hold on one second!

I thought the long coil assy plugs on to 1 and 4 and the short one - 2 and 3.

I can't remember

 

A really easy way to check for shorts is to look at the engine running at night and look for the arcs.

The stock wires are fine BTW.

 

-the heck is a plug puller?

 

well plugs are changed and its still sputtering. im just gonna have it towed to mitsu and have them fix it.