that's odd, my gf has a 96 ex 4 door accord and i raced my riceboy friend in his 96 civic ex 5spd with i/h/e and i beat him by about a car from a 10 mph roll till around 90. I think even an automatic I4 accord should have a pretty good shot against a 7th gen ex 5spd and it should RAPE an auto LX civic. Now the 5spd H23 prelude should be able to beat you by quite a bit. I guess get some more mods and a tranny swap if you can afford it.

Or buy yourself a nitrous kit and you should be ape raping most of those cars and hanging with some faster ones (mustang GT's etc)