O.K., After reading some of the other posts here, I thought I'd share this for kicks. It was about two years ago, my wife and I were headed over to a local cruise. Rolling about forty down Beach, along comes this "tuned" Civic turbo. Now keep in mind that my Monte is in no way considered a sleeper, and anyone with common sense would know that this Civic was seriously out gunned. Two carbs on a GMC 4-71 through the hood, and 285/40-17's under the rear should've been a clue, but as I titled this post "stupid ricer kid!" This kid comes up and rev's the sewing machine so the blowoff valve pukes, and accelerates wildly in traffic, trying to impress me with his awesome display. I did my best to ignore him, while at the same time, smiling and waving at the young lady in his passenger seat. This really only served to antagonize him even more. He made a move to the outside lane and downshifted to really spool up the turbo, and as he did , I eased over into the turn lane for the expressway onramp! I'm thinking, "what an idiot" as I'm about to head off away from him, but Noooo... he darts across three lanes of traffic to make the onramp behind me. At this point, I'm thinking that although I don't condone street racing, this guy really needs a lesson in humility! So I get onto 9A at a leisurely 45 mph, in fifth gear cruise (5-speed manual) and wait patiently. I didn't have to wait long, and I could se the ear to ear grin as this kid downshifted. I eased into the throttle and woke up about 600 lbs/ft of torque and topped 110 mph in half a heartbeat. After I'd slowed to a more reasonable (and legal) pace, and what seemed like thirty to forty seconds later here go little Civic dude with the patented "ricer fly-by"! I'm certain he went back to tell all his buddies how he raced the blown Monte Carlo, and passed him on the "top-end"!!! Yeah, after I'd slowed to make my off-ramp exit. But, that is the way ricer mentallity works, and in that respect we'll never be able to beat them in thier world!