Great story, Mike! I am glad to hear that I am not the only crazy person here to take VX to a track (drag strip in my case, where it ran 17.0's like clockwork). My current “race car” is a ’93 Eagle Summit minivan, which I race in AutoX, oval track and drag strip. So I love taking cars out of their element
. Only my Summit is pretty competitive 
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAB30cuX0Eo
I am toying with brining VX there one day (probably after I boost the power ether with LS4 or a turbo on a stock 3.5)
96 Eclipse Spyder GSX (already turbo, AWD swap)
93 Eagle Summit AWD (4G63 turbo swaps)