Barley

I had my buddy in my car yesterday and I decided to get on the car a bit. I recently took my quad shocks off after one started leaking, so unsurprisingly I had a bit of wheel hop. (LCA's getting put on in a week)

Anyway, I parked it in the garage and left it overnight. I checked it this morning and saw there was a huge greenish/yellow puddle behind the car that had drained there from the front of the car. I checked each fluid and I believe it to be the coolant. It's leaking from back of the passenger side of the engine. I'm suspecting that maybe the intake manifold didn't like the wheel hop?

I took a few pictures and was wondering if anybody can give me input. I have 2 18 hour drives ahead of me next week with the Mustang and can't afford to have anything preventing it. All I know is that it's pissing out coolant and I need to have it fixed by this time next week.

The leak itself is behind the engine, someone suggested to me that it was a heater core or coolant nipple? I found a page that showed where the famous 4.6 intake manifold crack happens, and there's no crack on mine. At least from what I could see. I did, however, see what was potentially the culprit and took a picture of it. The actual coolant is ending up down on the bar infront of the cats. (Sorry, not sure of the name) And dripping off from there. I took a second look with a light and can see it on the transmission as well.

Pictures:
http://filesmelt.com/dl/20120604_132720.jpg
http://filesmelt.com/dl/20120604_132811.jpg

The second picture shows another puddle infront of the one I'm pointing at. That's because I had backed the car up just before I took that picture.

school boy

looks to be a gasket or manifold leak. the motor valley looks wet. if the coolent is going in the valley, there is a drain on the back side of the block which is why you are getting coolent on the floor where you're getting it. i'd replace both intake and gaskets and maybe that rusted injector. just my opinion

Barley

Well, I took another look at the car while the engine was running and now I'm starting to think it's the passenger side gasket. The spot where I took the picture has a little pool of coolant that goes all the way back as seen in the second picture. I don't see how that leak could be responsible for the amount of leakage I'm seeing, but it's my best guess at the moment.

I felt around the back and the leak is consistant around the gasket area, however, I'm confused as to why so much is ending up on the transmission. The leak doesn't look that bad, but it's also in a spot where I can't really get a look at. So it sounds right that it's ending up in the valley like school boy said. I'm just trying to be 100% sure.

This couldn't be any worse timed. I don't have any money to waste right now, and if I can get away just replacing the gasket, I want to do that. I only want to replace the manifold if I absolutely have to. I need the car running and able by this time next week.

Pictures:
http://filesmelt.com/dl/20120605_122141.jpg
http://filesmelt.com/dl/20120605_122208.jpg