Mark, congratulations on the new whip (I think that's what the kinds call them these days). Looks like it'll be a great dependable car for many years to come. I've never been in a car with a continually variable transmission, and I have no idea how they actually work, but from what I have heard and read it doesn't actually "shift" gears. The RPM's move around, but you never feel a shift. That's got to be weird.

I have no doubt that you will, eventually, get the VX back on the road. I am at the point of taking the heads off of my old engine. I didn't know this, but our head bolts are actually hex head bolts so I need to get a set of hex head sockets to remove the heads. I should get a set of those tomorrow, so hopefully by the end of the weekend, or the beginning of next week at the latest, I'll be able to tell you what might be wrong with your VX's engine so you know what you need to get to when I comes time to fix it.

I'm sure that you'll keep the same kind of records on the SX4 that you did on the VX so I can't wait to see how things compare.

Happy motoring.