Everyone: Did I just destroy my engine?

[janas19]

Wow, I think I have just seriously..... SERIOUSLY goofed up. Here is what happened:

Last night I decided that I wanted to finally use that bottle of Gunk Engine Foam Cleaner that has been sitting under the passenger seat of my Celica for the last two months. So, I head to the car wash in town, pop open the hood, and soak down everything with the foamy stuff. The directions said to cover up the throttle body and any faulty wires, but my throttle body wasn't open, and I don't have any faulty wires, so I just doused everything. I waited 5 minutes, then used the little pressure wash sprayer to hose everything off....

Suddenly - I get a sick feeling in my stomach. Something tells me there is a problem. Well, I get in, pray to the Lord and turn the ignition key - everything works. I drive home and it's fine. THEN I get up to go to class today, and my once-perfectly working car (*SNIFF, SNIFF*) is now idling like a CRAZY MOTHER F'er, and stalling out on me in the middle of Atlanta traffic. As I desperately rush to avoid stalling out at a light and someone shooting me out of road rage, I finally make it to class, but I know I have an expensive headache in my future. My engine is idling rough, stalling out, not accelerating properly... Am I doomed? What should I do? Does anybody know what has happened? I have class next Monday - is it possible to fix this mess THIS WEEKEND??? Or will I be.... *GULP*... forced to take PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION????!!!!! (NOOOOOOOOO..........)

[foompla]

if you have a distributor, you mightve gotten water under the cap. next time leave the car running. pressure washer mightve broken a vacuum line or something of the sort.

[TokyoRacer]

Yeah prolly what foompla said..once ti dries up it'll go away, the first time I shaampood my engine I ahd the same problem. now I wrap it.

[Cyorke]

pull the distributor cap off if there is one and spray it good with wd-40. Another problem I have seen after people do taht is water in teh spark plug tubes. They start arcing in the tube and it is not good. Same thing as when the tubes start leaking oil. Try those two first then get back to us.

[ST185]

Which Celica is this?

[90celicaGT-S]

i did that and it fried my alternator. cost me like 120 for a new one. and it didnt rEAlly look any better when i got done.

[Lil GTR]

do these things have camshaft positionioning sensors? cuz my buddy jus went thru an ordeal with a DSM and it turned out the tps got wet and jus needed ta chill for a while then it worked fine. we were pissed after pullin the security system and shit thinkin it was that...

[alltracman78]

Yes. It's in the dist.