FOUND IT!!!!! it was the water pump, what it would do was it would trickle at low rpms so the motor and heat in the engine bay would evap the coolant away so that i couldnt see it but at higher rpms the leak would flow pretty heavily. as a side note i could kill an engineer for makeing the inlet hose so short and having it incased by the motor so that you cant get a any grip on it to slide the new pump on easily (fought for an hr getting it back on with the gasket in place only to realise i didnt have the clamp on it so i said **** it and slapped a hose clamp on it insted)

 

You didn't take the accessory bracket off?

 

Sweet deal, glad to hear you got her fixed back up.

 

nop i left the bracket on thinking it would be less time consuming to deal with it

 

That hose is impossible. I'd take the bracket off. In fact, that inlet hose was about to burst on mine. Glad I saw that when I did my plenum. Why did they hide that damn thing?

 

Because engineers hate mechanics.

 

my coolant tank had a crack on it, right at the tab where it slides into the radiator shroud. I took it off, cleaned it up, and patched it with JB Weld on the inside and outside of the area cracked. No more leak.

 

I too have had hard times with that damn hose... I swear, the engineers should have had it cast (formed, molded, whatever) with a middle finger emblem on it and text that read "changing the water pump huh? F U, you should've taken it to the dealer"

The same goes for those spring loaded band clamp things... or as I like to call them, eff you clamps

@ OP: glad you got her fixed.