Originally Posted by cowanpp
Did you try to restart the car after the water came in the intake? I always heard that if you took the sparkplugs out and cranked the engine that it would shoot the water out the spark plug holes and maybe save the engine. Of course, that was back when I was into off-road stuff so the engines would be a little different than the VW. Maybe worth a shot, though.
theoretically, you could pull the main wire that goes to the distributor cap, crank the engine, and pump the water out the exhaust, right?