Oil Presure

[84_chevy]

Just got my oil presure Gage working again, for some reason the blue wire to the sender unit was not connected. By luck I found a tan wire coming out of the firewall block that controlled the dash Gage. There must be a mix up in the wiring under the dash somewhere that I have yet to hunt down. My question now is what should be the operating Presure for the oil, mine is just over 400Kpa, normal?
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[bilfman]

That is about 60 pounds of pressure and is good side of normal.

[frog210]

not high jacking but,
my oil pressure is around 30 when idling but goes upto 60 when given gas
is that normal

[84_chevy]

Mine goes straight to 400 at idiling, then up to 410 or so Kpa, sorry for the metric but it's a Canadian car and that's all I have to go by. Not sure how to convert Kpa to psi.
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[tucsonjwt]

My 73 and 83 454 C20s both had 45# at idle, very slight creep up toward 50#-60# under load. As a mechanic once told me "Don't worry about the high pressure, worry about the low pressure." If your engine is running well, then I would just look for a change in pressure (pressure drops.)