yeah pacing is illegal... atleast from what i've heard anyway... get some info online and take it to court... otherwise... go to driving school... you can only do that to get rid of a ticket once... as that's what i did... the exhaust thing is typically a cops descrepency (sp?)... some cops let it slide, some don't... the license plate thing? yeah... you DO hafta have one on the front if you have VA tags... my bro-in-law was a cop so he filled me in on the minor BS... but i believe the dB limit for exhausts is like somewhere in the 90s... close to 100dB... which is REALLY loud... i doubt your exhaust is that loud, but yeah... same thing happend to me and i had to pay the ticket cuz i took too long to look stuff up... oh yeah is this your first moving violation? if it is, then you'll hafta attend driving school anyway if you wanna get the ticket dismissed... good luck... driving school is easy shit anyway...