About two weeks ago, a friend and I were coming back from class on the way home when a Civic started riding my ass. So we get to the next stop light and I notice it's only an EX and sounded like it only had a muffler and maybe an intake. So I tell him I'll race because I know my 2.0 MP3 with only a cone filter can hang with if not right out beat a 1.8 EX w/ exhaust and an intake. So we get going and I take a big lead,...about 3 car links. Then he comes up right beside me, waves, then blows my doors off. He completely handed my ass to me. Well my friend is laughing histaricaly at me and I'm trying to think what happened. I thought must be header or nitrous because I didn't hear a turbo. So I forget about it and drown my sarrows over 2 kegs of beer during a party at my place the friday before the Auburn/Alabama game. Fast forward to today. I'm coming home from class again and a 2nd gen Toyota MR2 zooms up behind me. He says he wants to race, so I tell him after the next light b/c I know there is a two lane with some heavy curves that I'll blow his ass away in. So we take off and all of a sudden I hear a loud "TSSSSST"! Then just as I realized he had the turbo, he blew me completely away. Very embarrassing! But, I start to catch him in the curve, then I pass as I hear his tires chirping while my Dunlops are holding as tight as glue. Then the straight again and he handed my ass to me. Anyways, we pull into the gas station and we introduce ourselves, I look at his turbo, blah, blah, blah. He asks me if I raced a black civic a couple of weeks ago and I tell him yes a civic ate my lunch. He says it was his buddy and it was an SI. He said that he removed the emblems just for instances like that. He said he has a header, AEM fuel sys., Intake, exhaust, the works. This gave me a great relief knowing this. I was starting to think EX's could beat this car with ease. To this day, I cant get a Civic EX to race me,...I think they know better. 
