In the process of rebuilding the top end of my 87 charger. New head, turbo, intake/exhaust. Got everything back together and assembled and had the car running/idling in the garage. Decided while I was in there before I had it back on the road I would clean up the engine bay and re-route the intercooler piping to a shorter better way. Got that all back together and go to start it up. It sputters and fires up almost instantly but only for a split second then dies out and now it won't start at all. I tried key off-on to pull the codes and it doesn't flash a single code not even the 15 55 or whatever the #'s are for start/finish.
Did I just flood out the motor by starting it and it only running for a split second then dying? I had this problem previously but never tracked it down. What are some causes for cold start dying? Last time I had this happen I went back out the next day and got it started but for the first 10-15 seconds had to feed the peddle to keep it running then when it caught up it idled fine for like 15 minutes by itself no problem. I don't want to strand myself somewhere because I forget to baby the peddle on cold start and flood the motor out if that is the case so what causes this?
On a side note the oil gauge on the car reads absolutely no oil pressure even though I know there is oil pressure. I disconnected the oil block the sensor goes into and there's oil in there. Oil is circulating through the valve cover when it was running. I replaced and it still shows nothing? I haven't had the car running since replacing but doesn't it show some oil pressure while it's cranking? Maybe not, I can't remember if it will show pressure without the car running.
I forgot I have a scanner (The cars been in the garage not running for 2 years now lol). So I'm going to hook it up tomorrow and check sensors and what not and see what it says. That will give me a much better start than blindly trying things.