..and notice the beastly oil pressures this motor likes? Mine seems to like 70 psi while cruising (and sometimes over 100 when the motor is cool!)

I had an oil pressure gauge on my old Mazda and it never liked anything over 55 or so - even when I was wringing it. I'm pretty sure that old motor would have sh!t itself if it ever saw 100 psi..

 

I assume you're using a scanguage to get these numbers?

 

No, the scangauge can only display parameters that the ECU can monitor. The only pressure gauge the ECU could see would be the sub-5psi dummy switch.

I have a pair of Prosport gauges installed using their oil filter sandwich plate setup. It monitors oil pressure and temperature coming out of the oil filter.