Kids, trust us when we say that there are few things more impressive than functional aero and tires that look like they belong. And by functional aero we mean a front splitter and rear diffuser that play off of one another to establish a balanced chassis, side skirts that help keep air pressure low underneath, and a rear wing that, if you go fast enough, can increase downforce and improve traction.

Blending the worlds of track car, show car, and what could conceivably still be considered a street car isn't easy. This Civic hatch ticks all three boxes in a subtle yet color-coordinated sort of way. Plus, we're partial to anything that's still got a B-series in it.

The days of buying an NSX and sheltering it in the garage in fear of things like withering rubber trim and depreciating values are numbered. The new generation of used-NSX buyers are doing a funny thing: modifying them beyond what their 1990s owners might've approved of and sending them off to the track where they belong.

Want a lesson in proper aero? Refer yourself to the Spoon Sports and Go Tuning Unlimited record-setting, time attack Civic. Among its most impressive features—and one that's credited as being largely responsible for the car's success—is its completely flat underside that helps retain low air pressure but with a high velocity underneath. Its wing, on the other hand, according to the people at Go Tuning, plays an extremely small role in all of this.

Spoon Sports has a long and legendary racing history in Japan and, in recent years because of its partnership with Go Tuning, has been able to expand that lineage into the U.S. with projects like its 2015 Super Taikyu Fit that debuted at the 2014 SEMA show.

The other famed Japanese racing tuner, J's Racing, partnered with one of Southern California's oldest Honda-friendly tuning shops, Pit Crew Motorsports, to show off its third-generation Integra track car. You don't know it, but many of the engine swaps, performance mods, and parts interchangeability that you take for granted nowadays was conceptualized out of that small speed shop located in California's San Gabriel Valley.

You need not spend a whole lot of money to go racing. A lot of times, all it takes is a 25-year-old Civic, the right tires and suspension, and an outlet like VTEC Club, an all-Honda time-trial series that'll expose you to some of Southern California's best road courses.

Or you could forget about doing anything cost-effective and go ahead and throw a turbocharged K-series engine into your Civic. Do it in a four-door if you want to make things even more challenging.

You want 10-inch-wide rims on the front of your Integra. You need 10-inch-wide rims on the front of your Integra. Expect an update on VTEC Academy's Project 1993 Integra one of these days where we'll show you what you'll need to do to make all of that happen.

Well-executed. Simple. Timely. It's all of these things that make this fourth-generation Civic drag car so special. Its owner didn't go over the top with useless upgrades for the sake of making useless upgrades and, instead, focused on what matters, like a reasonably sized turbo, for example. The factory distributor with its spark plug wires and an Integra Type R intake manifold prove as much.

Maintaining any fourth-generation Civic some three decades later is commendable. Doing that and successfully racing it is even more impressive. Yet another example of what '88-'91 Civic owners ought to aspire to.

This. You're intimidated by it and you haven't even seen it in person. Kind of makes those rainbow-colored lower control arms you just bolted on seem sort of silly, huh?

The purist in you is a little upset that the Si's native B16A2 is no longer there. But the genius in you knows that there will never by anything wrong with plopping a 3.2L V6 engine underneath the hood of any Civic.

And that goes for del Sols, too.

One final candidate for the performance-minded cars of this year's Eibach meet, this another turbocharged, K-series sedan only destined for the drag strip and not the road course.