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Update; Pulled engine and did one side that was suspect, the other had been done 50k ago, head gasket looked bad with obvious breach in it. Resealed the pan with Rightstuff again, and put a seal kit into oil pump. Haven't been able to road test it yet but runs nicely in the shop. Thanks for the advice from this forum.

Thanks for replying, unfortunately I'm well past my dog companion years.

My aftermarket gauge is T’d off the factory oil light switch point. It works a treat and is well worth the effort in my opinion. Cheers Bennie

Lol! She is available! For photoshoots! She's technically a professional model, her picture was used on a business card and we got $40! A grass fed steak for her and a triple cheeseburger from five guys for me! I am expecting a litter from a friend, but perhaps toward the late fall I'll have a few for sale! Come to CO in a vintage subaru and I'll give the friend price... $1700 unless you pull up in an xt or have the ej22 swap, then $1500 lol!

You're driving lights in the lower bumper are already wired that way (on with lows, off with Hi) and they are legal housings. You can adjust them outeward a bit to hit the sides of the road. Polish the headlight housings, and a good quality halogen bulb will be plenty bright. 3m makes a great polish kit.

Is the dog available?

Alternator is junk. Get one from Subaru. The reman alts for those cars are like $80 from Subaru. GD

Nope - you are absolutely correct. Many of the stock Subaru applications have partial port blockage right from the factory - and this may in fact be on purpose to slow down flow in certain areas, or promote additional flow through other passages to even out the cooling effect and prevent hot spots. In any case the porting makes no difference and any gasket can be used with any head so long as the bore diameters match. Do not attempt to modify the gasket in any way as you will most likely create a problem where one did not previously exist. GD

If you have plastic headlamp lenses, I would start by polishing those until they're crystal clear. HIR bulbs might be your next logical step and are low hanging fruit versus your next best bet, which is a custom headlamp wiring harness with larger gauge wires, etc. If you want to spend real money an HID or LED retrofit is the true answer. I'm currently swapping Lexus RX350 bi-xenon projectors into my JDM STI headlamps. The one thing you should avoid at ALL COSTS is the inexpensive LED/HID upgrades that put a halogen bulb base on an HID/LED bulb. Not only are these illegal in all 50 states, but no matter what a company's marketing says about their product, you can't cheat physics. Halogen lamps are designed to work with halogen bulbs. HID lamps with HID bulbs, and LED lamps are designed around the way an LED outputs light. YOU CANNOT REALISTICALLY MIX AND MATCH BULBS AND LAMPS and expect to actually have "better" night vision.

Came across an unforeseen obstacle.. https://youtu.be/nT8YFjoWvhQ

Replaced the faulty sensor with a Rock Auto special $1.50 ; so far so good.

Episode 2 up on the wrx swap! Subscribe to stay up to date!

I'm pretty fanatical about keeping everything (within reason) in my '86 just like it came from the factory. If I need to replace something I go with OEM unless that is totally impossible.

Bennie, my readings are with factory gauge & sending unit only. Idle drops down to 10-15 psi fully hot. Enough psi to sustain hydraulic lifters, rods & mains. Will do a mechanical OP gauge when EJ it finally. My 182K mile EA82 is still running without ticks or knocks so I'll just get all the goodness out of it until I can park it behind my gate again to do the EJ swap. If it ain't broke...... " Mine has doubled in the past week; something is going on " kayakertom, had you done a reseal on the engine recently using silicone somewhere near an oil passage? Could be that some debris is hanging up the pressure regulator in oil pump maybe(?)