Wet Coil Packs = Possible Damage?

[RS12Turbo]

So I sprayed my engine bay/ engine off with water the other day with the coil pack cover on, drove it that night....no problem. The car sat the whole next day until the afternoon. When I went out and cranked it, it idled really really rough. I turned it off.....and took off the coil pack cover. The whole underside of the cover was soaked with condensation along with the coil packs....which I assume the water couldn't evaporate from the heat with the cover on. I disconnected each coil pack connector and sprayed them with that "air in a can" stuff, plugged them all back, fired it up, and it was back to normal idling. It sat overnight, and the next morning, I went out and fired it up, and it rough idled again.......about 10 mins later it smoothed back out back to normal. I left and went on a 350 mile road trip...and during that trip anything over 12-13psi of boost, it would hesitate.....wot or not, and in any gear.Should I dissconnect the connectors and let them air dry for a couple of days...or maybe pull the the coil packs out and pull the boots off or did I possibly do some permanant damage?

[ca18detgabby]

IVe heard wrapping the wires with electrical tape improves perfromance. I would run with the cover off for a few days and let the engine "blow dry" them for you. sure hope you didnt get water in the oil...........

might be time to change your oil.

probably a good preventitive thing anyway.

[RS12Turbo]

I may have posted too soon....on the way to work tonight it did it, then on the way home it didn't....so hopefully thats all it was was just a little bit of moisture left in the connectors. I disconnected them and will leave them disconnected overnight incase there might be a bit more left. Hopefully it cured itself.As far as water getting in the oil....hopefully the o-ring on the oil cap does it's job, especially since I just changed the oil last week with Royal Purple.Wraping wires improves performance? What wires...and how would it improve performance?

[ca18detgabby]

I may have posted too soon....on the way to work tonight it did it, then on the way home it didn't....so hopefully thats all it was was just a little bit of moisture left in the connectors. I disconnected them and will leave them disconnected overnight incase there might be a bit more left. Hopefully it cured itself.As far as water getting in the oil....hopefully the o-ring on the oil cap does it's job, especially since I just changed the oil last week with Royal Purple.Wraping wires improves performance? What wires...and how would it improve performance?

someone was saying a while back the NZ guys use electrical tape on coil pack harness and it increased spark(in quality I assume)

[Ca_Silvia]

That was me, and i was talking about wrapping the actual coil pack, not the wires.

[ca18detgabby]

That was me, and i was talking about wrapping the actual coil pack, not the wires.

Where on the coil pack? at the clip?

[Cams]

I read its done a lot on RB coil packs. Wrap the entire coilpacks in high temp electrical tape to prevent Arcing in case they are letting some spark out and its grounding towards the head instead the plug.

[RS12Turbo]

well.....did it again today. only in low gears at wot....5th gear pull was fine.