Bought my first Porsche last week (1989 3.4 Coupe) - Huge oil leak, need help

[JohnOfTheJungle]

Here’s the super short version- I bought this Porsche last week, drove it 300 miles home, it was fine. Driving around today and noticed a huge oil leak after 1.5 hrs on the road:

https://youtu.be/M2POxpa_SLM

https://youtu.be/gj1Y9hS5cx4


Longer story below:

Hi - I bought my first Porsche last week. It’s a beauty of a 1989 Silver 25th Anniversary edition. I had planned on making a proper intro post, but this will have to be kind of rushed because I have a bit of an emergency on my hands.

That said, here’s a pic of me and the beauty the day of purchase



The car has 120k miles - the engine was rebuilt about 10k miles ago by Brett Hunter Motorsports in Toronto as a 3.4 with JE Pistons, valve guides redone, etc, I would hope done well.

Upon purchase I drove the car 300 miles home last week and it seemed to do fine. I parked it in my driveway and noticed a few drops under it last week but it didn’t smell like oil so I didn’t think too much of it. I have driven it a few times since then for 30 minutes at a time and thought I noticed a bit of smoke the other day.

Today I drove it longer - 1.5 hours and while almost home there was unmistakeable smoke. I pulled into a parking lot, looked under the car and was shocked to see multiple streams of oil dripping onto the exhaust and burning off.

I’ve never seen a car leak oil like this without something crazy happening. I can’t imagine how this would happen, I’m certain it was not this bad on the 300 mile drive and I haven’t hit anything in the road etc that would crack the case or break something.

The car seemed to be running fine. No missing, not down on power. Oil pressure was middle of the range and when I checked the oil immediately after this it was at the low end of the range but it did show up on the dipstick.

Is there any kind of hose or connector that may have come loose or could have deteriorated? Needless to say I’m kind of in shock here, I bought a Bentley manual and planned to do some maintenance on it over the winter, but Jesus if I have to do a full rebuild right now I’ll be super bummed.

Appreciate any help.


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