weird miss AFTER replacing coils/plugs

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2003LS, V6, 120K miles. I replaced all the plugs, coils, IMT o-rings, valve cover and upper intake gaskets this past weekend. Also had to replace the temp sensor on the drivers side, as it twisted off when I went to put it back it.

After putting it back together, it started right up, had a miss at about 3K (not the rev limiter, GEN2). Very diappointing. I took it out on the highway and it ran fine, accelerated fine, did not appear to have any issues. Both times before (this is my 3rd set of coils) with a bad coil, it would invariably throw the wrench code and set a throttle body code, under heavy acceleration. Brought it home, no miss at 3K.

At first I thought I guessed it was from all the carb cleaner that I used cleaning up the intake to get the oil out. It is possible that some water got on something as it was sitting outside when I worked on it and it did rain, but I covered everything well with plastic before the rain started.

Drove it today and it had a miss when I let OFF the gas and was coasting to a stop sign. Its not impossible to have a new coil bad, but it does not act like it has in the past with a bad coil.

It idles fine so I don't think it is a vacuum leak. Any ideas on what to check would be appreciated.
 
50 miles round trip with no miss today, if it happens again, I plan to pull the intake again (joy) and clean all of the electrical connectors with wire dry and recheck the coil seating and plug gap. Don't know what else to do.
 
What brand coils did you use?
Also, check the fuel injector connectors. They break easily.
 
Denso from Rock Auto. I wish I had known that the visteons were available again for the V6 as I would have bought them. I thought when they were gone, they were gone for good. I may pick up a set now, seems like a prudent thing to do. I am thinking maybe it is a connector as the cowl was leaking and water was puddling in the well in the valve cover. There was no water in the plug wells and the plugs were clean, but you could see a water line on the VC where water has been.

I did not remove the fuel rail, just the upper intake, but I can check the connectors.
 

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