So I primed the turbo with a bit of oil before I reattached the oil lines and replaced the oil and filter. After we got everything back together we cut off the fuel and let the engine crank over a few times to pump oil around.

The car would run for a bit and die. It would immediately die if you tried to give it gas.
After removing the top intake that runs from the turbo to the manifold the car ran like a champ. We could see the air coming from the turbo. It looked good. When I put the I intake back on but did not bolt it in place the car still ran.

Now on my friends car when we cleaned the throttle body we had to disconnect the battery to reset the mass air flow sensor - does the om603 do the same thing?

Also the old turbo was covering the intake in oil I'm going to use degreaser to clean it up today and see if that helps.