[rjSupra]

thanks btwilson and BillUK! I can really use advice right now. The last few days were pretty upsetting thinking about the car. I had to work today on a location shoot and had no car. Not good. Public transit out here is a royal pain, slow and hard to get to locations.
I am going to try to get back on the horse the next day and / or two and try to fix this problem.
Two other questions: If 2 previous owner's ago noticed a bit of 'loss in power' when he sold it 6 years ago to the owner before me, and I test drove it and thought it was a dog and slow as Sh*t - like a small engined pickup might beat it - that's probably not a good sign? However, when I cleared the stupid jammed up floor mat under the gas pedal and really tromped the gas, after a sizeable turbo lag where nothing much happens, that thing is fast as sh*t. The turbo kick in is almost unreal and brings a huge smile to my face. But it's the turbo that makes it feel fast, normal driving it's pretty weak and unimpressive. I'm ok with that if that's normal, but I expected a lot more out of a '6' with 232 horsepower after driving a '4' 138 hp Acura Integra for 15 years.
So that's note 1, question 1.
Note 2 is that when i swapped the water pump out ALL nuts and bolts (10 in total I think) were barely more than finger tight. The least well bolted in bolts I've ever seen. When I replaced the WP and put back in the nuts and bolts, the large size bolts I could tighten up really well. Same with a nut or 2 - 3 of the small bolts. However. most of the small bolts tightened to a degree and then got no tighter. But it didn't exactly feel like it was or was just stripped out. Am I deluding myself here and there stripped? I could go either way on the judgment there but leaning towards not. If some, say half, are stripped out could that be causing a good old WP and the new WP to leak the same? I STILL do not see any coolant leaking through the gasket area - certainly none on the top or sides, and none on the bottom although I should crawl under the car on stands now it's home to 110% sure - but I never saw it leaking there in the old WP either, when I was under it before. Again, I feel almost sure it's not that area but an area several inches behind where the WP is and probably near the top or even slightly above the WP.
Is it possible for a hole or crack in the block to be shooting out coolant but only after driving at 2000 rpm with enough pressure to broach whatever thing is holding in the coolant fine at under 2k rpm? I would bet i could idle my car overnight and not loose a drop of coolant, but throttle hard the motor cold or warm and it will piss out coolant almost instantly. Does this mean anything to anyone? Just a loose clamp or tiny hose tear somewhere that needs a lot of pressure on it to bleed??

So, to eliminate another suggested possibility I will be attacking that small bent angle hose. (My friend said it couldn't be rubber since it can't bend 90 degrees so tight so must be plastic? - either way that sucker is gone and I putting in a fresh one).
Will post my results, and if anyone else thinks of anything in next 2 days, Please! do submit a reply here.
It's going to be hard for me to trust the car to take it out again to test. It was such an ordeal to get it back here the 60 miles from Boston, took 4 days of driving and overheating spread out over a week... And I live on a huge hill out here that eats wimpy cooling systems for breakfast...