Alright guys so this is how far down I am taking this thing, anything past this is unnecessary for me (really all that is left is headgasket and a few random gaskets here and there.
I removed cleaned all the gasket material and started cleaning the oil pump as best I could. I also removed the "pressure limiting" bolt/spring combo and resealed it (had to reuse the o-ring)
Then I removed the rear main assembly, cleaned it and replaced the seal.
Removed cleaned and sealed the lower oil pan, pickup and lower pan baffling
Since I will be running a oil temp gauge I thought about using the location where the stock oil level sensor is on JZs, but my sender/probe is not nearly as long as Toyota's so I decided to add a bung I had laying around to the lower oil pan, about midway, and I will tap it to 1/8 -27npt at work
Welded
And added a quick coat of high temp engine paint
It is confirmed that I bought the wrong roller bracket from MVP, however I am fairly certain I can grind it down to match the angle of the 1JZ. I will try it and post!
More soon