what oil to use

A good choice. VR-1 is good stuff. Do you use 10W-30 all year? I have always stuck with 20W-50.

Yea I'm running 80 psi cold oil pressure, 60 psi hot with 10-30, and some mornings are pretty cool to be running 20w-50 up here. Car goes into storage in the winter but gets run whenever it warms up.