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If you get a new block from Subaru that has the updated rings then oil consumption due to that specific cause should be alleviated, yes. GD

It's been a minute, here's a quick update: I'm losing my outside storage, so the parts car has to go, and soon. So, I took a day, and stripped it down. I still need to get a few trim pieces, marker lights, the roped in windows, and the gas tank and anything else underneath, but it's 99% stripped. Everything was labeled and stored away. A few notes: this thing came apart super easy. I think I broke maybe 3 or 4 bolts total, very impressive for a '71. The doors are paper thin, they can't weigh more than 30-40 pounds a piece. I could carry two at a time, an odd feeling. I didn't take many pictures, it went pretty quickly and I didn't want to lose momentum. The good car will be getting moved to my actual shop soon, then some serious work will commence. I did go back and pull the rear axle after this photo was taken, also super easy and might make a cool trailer axle in the future.

Speed and neutral signals both help with drivability, preventing the engine to stall when coasting and such. Not a major change, but super easy to hook them up, so just do it. Yes, both fan signals are ground signals to trigger relays.

For the temp and oil wires just use the engine wiring loom from the EA82 and plug the wires for the oil and temp sensors onto the EJ units. Job done there. Check engine light - changes to a Red/Yellow wire if I’m reading the wiring diagram correctly. There’s a Red/yellow wire in pin 6 of the black connector. I can’t see where the CEL wire goes in the diagram as that black plug should be referenced in there and point to pin 6 being the required pin. Hopefully you’ll be able to see this with the wiring diagrams in front of you as it’s hard to put them together online! Tacho wire certainly seems to be the yellow wire in pin 7 on the black plug. The VSS wire could be pin 4 on the white plug. Again you’d need to trace the wiring diagram to see if these line up to what we think we're looking at. If not we need to go back to the drawing board Cheers Bennie

They usually paint mark the drain plug and put a tamper sticker over the dipstick - thus you unbolt the TUBE and lift it and the dipstick out of the pan and suck out an (alarming) amount of oil and then take it in. Instant short block replacement on Subaru's dime. In no way is this an admission of having done this or assisted in doing this I'm ex-military. Someone says "Test" and my brain instantly starts down the path of how to rig the test. Especially when they send me out unsupervised...... all the tests in the military were open book. If you can't pass that kind of test you aren't trying at all. GD