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Hi

Last week I went for a short drive and floored it couple of times on high boost setting. The next day I found coolant under my car. I did not see where it came from.

I added about 1.5 liters of coolant mixture and went for a drive without revving over 4K and on a lower boost setting. I haven't lost any coolant after 100km of driving.

Do you guys know what the problem could be?

S2 RB25 ,bolt ons, Link, 300RWKW, standard internals including head gasket.

Cheers

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The water temp was fine. It was just a normal drive except I went to red line on 2nd and 3rd once. Now I remember there was some coolant on the ground under overflow bottle and some under the engine (should have told you that before). Overflow bottle is almost empty now.

I just hope it is not lifting the head because of detonation or anything like that.

The car has aftermarket radiator, but no oil cooler.

I have the same kind of problem, only leaks sometimes when the car is turned off... Mine looks like around the back of the engine area as it drips from there. Also can't find where. I figure maybe it's a split in a hose that leaks under pressure...

Similar issue on my 32R.

I "modified" an existing radiator cap so i could feed pressure from my compressor. It was simply a male air house coupling hot glued/tapped into the top of a spare radiator cap. Then set to around 9PSI which allowed me to sit beneath the vehicle whilst pressurized. Dont push any more then this through though.

In my case it appears to be the seal inside of my water pump but this was only occurring at full temp and only very rarely.

Otherwise take it to a professional and have it leak tested :)

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