nice job resurrecting a long dead thread.
If you want to put an H into your accord I'd go ahead and say pop an H22 in there, it'll drop right in and you'll have a sleeper. unless you're planning on a complete rebuild you could probably get away with a little boost as well, though at that point you'd be 5k into a 20 year old car.
Suspension and a swap would be my first suggestions, although if this is your only car I'd make sure that whatever you put in it is going to work when you're done... a swap like that can be done on a weekend if you know what you are doing