Hello folks,

Saturday night I had the joy of experiencing a flat tire. I don't recall running anything over, it was dusk, I was on expressway when the indicator came on. I took next exit, pulled off to side of road to inspect. I could see there was a decent gash in my left rear right in tread pattern, pissing air. Figured it was not pluggable, so I drove 15mph in the direction of home. Made it about five miles or so, pulled over to take a peek, didn't look good. Drove another mile to gas station and then started searching for a tow service.

Flatbed comes, picks it up for me. I had already gotten a ride from BIL to get wife and kid home, grab truck to go sit with car. So he brings car to my home, I have a decent shop and will deal with it all another day was the idea. Pulls it off the truck, I slowly and carefully back it into the garage. Tire is absolutely smoked by now, luckily no rim damage. Like I said, tire wasn't repairable.. shrugs.

So today, I head out to shop to pull the wheels. Ordered four new PZeros, I can take the wheels to a shop when the tires come. This will give me opportunity to clean the suspension/brakes etc. I shuffled stuff around the shop to get the car in good spot to wrench. Fired the car up, I hear something that don't sound nice as I slowly reverse and manipulate. Figured it was the tire/steel banding.. idk. Didn't sound good. I get the car positioned, shut down. I walk around the back and there is a trail of oil spots.. perhaps oil and coolant.

this car is no show Queen but it's not a total disaster. 70k miles, runs wonderfully well. Had what I would call a "weep", I noticed a quarter size spot under it after this past winter, to give idea.

I got the car in the air, removed the bad wheel. Confirmed, no wheel damage. Great. But I have a good bit of oil and possibly coolant coming from a spot I cannot identify, near the left side of engine, closest to rear (I suppose this would be the FRONT of the engine)

The only thing that I can speculate happening here is the flat bed guy strapped the car around the drivers side header (I do not know this to be true) and this somehow tweaked the thing so much that it broke a seal somewhere. Car did not have any oil leak until I started it just now.

someone. Anyone. Please, tell me what this is. I cannot identify where the leak is even coming from. I am pretty adequate with the wrenches, tackle pretty much everything on my own. I really don't want to do an engine out on this.

%##^^*%## Just NYS inspected on 5/1 with clean bill of health absolutely STOKED for summer.. No CEL codes to speak of.

added a vid. I fired it up without the air box in place, it chugged/surged and quit. You can hear the noise I heard when I started the car, sounded same.

 

Sorry, can't be of any help on this except to steer you in a different direction for advice. I would suggest you post this on the 997 Rennlist forum instead. You'll get way more responses from a deep well of knowledge there. A number of impressively knowledgeable guys post there on a regular basis: https://rennlist.com/forums/997-forum-113/

Hate to say it but 6 speed on line seems all but dead. One or two posts per week or something like that.

 

sounds very helpful! Thank you, sir.