I think I killed my car : (

[JMan300sd]

I recently noticed my power steering belt was eating into my oil cooler line, so I did a quick fix on the tube (with some RTV, aluminum from a can and some clamps) and was waiting on a new ordered upper oil cooler line to come in. It's arriving today, but it's two days too late. This past saturday I was driving down the highway when I felt the engine loose some power and saw my oil pressure gauge drop to zero. My heart dropped. I pulled off as quick as I could and coasted to the side of an off ramp and just as I was about to turn everything off the engine died. My heart sank further. I opened the hood and there was oil absolutley everywhere. I got a tow back home (thank god for AAA) and let everything cool overnight. In the morning I filled the beast with some new oil and cranked it over. It ran fine for about 30 seconds and then started shaking terribly and was pouring black smoke out of the exhaust. It then shutoff on it's own after about 2 minutes. Now it will turn over but it won't idle. I think my car is dead . Is there any hope? If not, expect me to be on the used parts forum....I got a lot of really good stuff to part out and I need the cash for a new car asap.

I guess I learned the hard way.....but let this be a lesson to anyone with the makeshift oil cooler lines that I've seen posted on this forum (the heater hose with the hose clamps over the barbs on the hard lines) or anyone thinking about doing it. Don't do it.....it's not worth risking your engine.