that has GOT to be a freak thing... the new trend seems to be h22 swaps in every car under the damn sun... if you put an h22a5 in a civic hatch.. it'll run in the high 13s stock....

and i'm pretty sure the fastest front wheel drive car (stephan papadakis) is running an h22 for his 7 second car...

you can't expect every engine of the same series to be able to run the same way... honda doesn't make everything perfect.. that just sounds like one of those freak things..