Thanks for all the replies.
But is it OK for my presseure guage reading 5 almost all the time during driving?

 

Khalid,

You overfilled and that's what caused it to smoke, it didn't smoke because of too much pressure.

Ruey,

That's why race cars have dry sump oil system, that prevents the engine from drying on hard cornering.
It really was a bad bad decision from Porsche to make 996s (except TT, GT2 or GT3) without dry sump.

Waz,

Mike is correact and also at track (or driving otherwise hard) when the oil get hotter and expands, you might have overflow problems because of that.

Iain,

5 is ok if it's not there when your engine is idling (oil warm).

 

flying,

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">That's why race cars have dry sump oil system, that prevents the engine from drying on hard cornering.
It really was a bad bad decision from Porsche to make 996s (except TT, GT2 or GT3) without dry sump.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">yes, I am familiar with the dry sump...my cousin who has a ferrari brags about his oil being in a separate container and showed me when we were examining his car when he first got it. I think its cool.

I don't think it was a bad decision from porsche however, as for cost cutting measures it did the trick. They build their cars these days from a business perspective to make money and they don't care about the enthusiast concern any longer. I think it just sucks that porsche has to make it this way for those who drive the car hard enough to make a dry sump necessary.

One question though, do you think that because we have a flat engine a dry sump would be really necessary, considering the oil would always be at the bottom evenly spread as it already has so much oil?

 

Porsche 911 2003 brochure page 34...quote:

"...the integrated dry sump lubrication system. First developed on our racing cars, a dry sump system keeps the oil reservoir away from the spinning crankshaft...The dry-sump type system ensures a reliable supply of oil to both banks of cylinders.."

So are you guys saying there is not a dry sump system in the 996 and Porsche marketing is false?

 

What's the answer to this?

 

Ed, I've asked the question about dry sump twice and noone has bothered to answer. I presume that's what you are asking about also.

 

Yes. I recall also in the 2003 material it mentioning a dry sump. Obviously, it isn't an issue because people here who have tracked the 996 love it, but I am curious none-the-less.