Is my SR20 dead?

[Propaganda]

So.. I started her up today for the first time and she stumbled a little bit and ran fine for about 20 seconds.

After those 20 seconds, she shut down and I found a big ass oil puddle under my car. The puddle came from the turbo oil inlet line.

[jskateborders]

No, your turbo is dead. they are only like 100 bucks so no big... or this is an excuse to upgrade!

[Propaganda]

Well it turned out to be that my oil inlet line had the wrong gasket, so I don't think it would be a bad turbo.

Anyways, the problem was that I had the wrong copper gasket and I replaced it with a correctly sized copper gasket and haven't started it yet because it has just begun to rain.


Back to the topic... do you think my SR is dead? I tried to start it again, and it started fine and sounded fine, but I'm not sure if anything on the inside is messed up.

[AznDrftr.]

Nah, your good. your sr wouldnt be dead cuz of the turbo. as long as you had oil in the motor itself, your fine.

[tt99ol]

only one way to find out
put oil in and start her up
if no rod knock then your ok
unless the rings went dry and scuffed up the cyl walls
most likely your probably fine though