Well, Vanagons have the oil dipstick accessible from the back license plate, which is nice and easy to check without unloading all your gear in the back. However, once you install a Subaru engine, this luxury is not available to you unless you buy an expensive, custom oil pan for about $300+ or you buy a SmallCar flexible dipstick for $80. Luckily, my van has lifted springs, so I have enough ground clearance with the stock Subaru oil pan. I picked up the flexible dipstick instead and hopefully it works as well as they claim.
An Interface Board is a "code eliminator". The Vanagon has less sensors than the Subaru, so it doesn't have all the signals to send the Subaru ECU about its health. This sends fake signals to my Subaru ECU to make it think everything is OK and therefore, not throw false "Check Engine Light" warnings constantly. And, getting an upgraded tachometer and face that goes to 7K RPMs will be a better representation of the Subaru engine over the stock VW's 6K RPMs.
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