okay guys, let me tell the background first before i ask my Q's. i finally got my car running. my friends and i installed a custom turbo kit that i bought from a guy that one of my buddy's knew. it includes a rhb5 turbo at 8 psi, smic with all pipes. for fuel managment, it has check valves and FMU. okay, now before you guys flame me on the crappy fuel management, im saving bling bling right now for bigger injectors and the hack. okay, back to the story. okay, got everything installed. i started the car, and everything was fine. no leaks besides the exhaust, but i dont care about that,yet. anyways, i let it idle for awhile since i havent driven my car for 2 weeks. so after it warmed up, i told my old man that i was gonna take it to the local gas station and get 92 octane. when i got to the gas station, i checked again, no leaks. after getting 10 dollars of gas, i stopped by my buddy's house, since he lives literally right next to the gas station. i showed him my stuff. another buddy of mine was already over, so the three of us decided to test drive it. okay, now, heres the FIRST QUESTION. when the car is starting up, i hear this pinging noise. i had no F-ing idea what it was. i got scared, so i turned the car off. i started it again and i still hear the pinging noise. so i say **** it. it goes away once the car starts. you only hear it during when the engine is turning over with the clutch stepped in. so me two other buddys were in the car. when you come into a stop like a stop sign, and you slightly let go of the clutch and push the gas pedal, the pinging noise comes back, but when you completely let go of the clutch, the noise goes away. any of you guys know wut it is?? is this datonation???

anyways, we're cruising up this hill(not very steep), and i decided, im gonna floor it up to 5000 rpm. right about 3500 rpm, the turbo kicks in. the only thing i could say was HOLY ****!! and then, the unthinkable happened. the oil light came on, and after swearing, i pulled over to the side of the road, and quickly turned off the engine. my buddy and i came out and guess wut we saw: a ******* loooong trail of oil behind my car. so we quickly poped the hood. ****, there was oil all over the firewall and the backside of the IM and some hoses. 2ND QUESTION: a little bit of oil got into the alternator, would i need a new one?
turns out the oil feed line came off the t-fitting and oil leaked out.
now, the FINAL QUESTION: would there have been any damage to my engine and turbo because of the oil leakage? i quickly turned the engine off as soon as i saw the oil light, and before i turned it off, there was nothing wrong. i didnt hear anything out of the ordinary from the engine before turning it off.

yea, i know this a ******* looooong story, so i apologize about it. i just need some tips on what to do now. the only thing that i can think of is getting new oil and get some braided steel hose so i can twist it onto the t-fitting unlike the gay hose that was clamped on and fell off.

im more worried about if there was any damage to the engine,which i dont think there was.

i drive a 98 civic hatch with d16y7 minime. all stock except the turbo kit. o yea, the turbo was strong enough that it blew the couplings right off. and the turbo SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEAMS like a ****'ing biatch!

any tips or suggestions appreciation

 

no that is not detonation. sounds like a tranny bearing noise to me.

hopefully you got lucky and no damage happened... I say put it back together right and pray for the best

 

hmm...ill check into that. its wierd though. it started happening AFTER i got the kit in. it never happend before...thanks for the tips.

 

o yea, i got another Q. since im using the stock y7 IM right now with the check valves, how the hell do you keep the nipple from falling out?? the nipple wont stay in.

 

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zipties

as for the pingning no clue. maybe broken clutch popped the springs out . not sure.

as fro the oil light you can caus emajor damage to you rmotor by starvin the bearings of oil and itll size up and cause rod knock.

 

If its TRUE pinging, make sure your o2 sensor is plugged in and make sure there are NO exhaust leaks BEFORE the o2 sensor.

-remember you saying the exhuast is FUBAR

As for the oil, my freind drove for 30 mins with no oil drain plug. YES the engine had zero oil for those 30mins when my dumbass freind drove the car home. Was a 94 Si hatch. I guess he nursed it home hardcore, didnt exceed 2400RPMs. still sounds fishy to me, but i do remember seeing a **** ton of oil on the road on my way home that day . We race BMX and take the same route home.

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thats not improving much by the way...

 

i only installed the primary o2 sensor. there are no leaks BEFORE the o2 sensor. the exhaust leak is where i connected the dp to the rest of the exhaust piping.my car doesnt have a cat anymore so there was no point in installing the 2nd o2 sensor. im gonna get a ex full catback and then reinstall the second o2. yea, the CEL is on, but im pretty sure that it's for the 2nd o2.

but man, your friend must be hardcore driving with no oil!!

 

wut do you exactly mean about the "spring popping out"? i didn't remove the tranny or anything. the only thing close was the shield that was takened out from the side of the oil pan, exposing the flywheel, or something. we had to get that out of the way so the oil pan would slide down. but we safely installed everything back to the way it was before. o well, its just annoying. it doesnt affect the car, so far.

yea, i know that with no oil means fucked engine. but it was about a 10 second period from the time i saw the oil light to the time i pulled over and turned off engine. and to think that my buddy told me to leave the engine on. lol