I've got a new found respect for you Nightshade..I though you were out to get me. But anyhow..People are forgeting the power to weight ratio...This is why we all decided to do this in the first place...Mustang's and Camero's are over-rated but they boast a V8 and equal out the or a least compromise the P-W ratio. Us Accord owners have a big battle to fight...Should I go with the factory Sohc motor and power it up as much as possible and cross my finger's at the dyno or go higher displacement and be at a known power level that should at least challenge other cars in a lower weight class. From all the things that I have done since my first car a 3rd gen Accord, and I've owned just about every gen of an Accord at one point of my life is that its is not born to drag race. Its a bad ass car to rally cross or do SCCA type racing. Especially with just a stock H22 running a high compression internals. We all have to remember this thread was created by a person that just wanted to know how he could turbo his Accord and what is the ups and downs to this. With all due respect to the thread creator....Dude the best teacher in your life is experience....I can't tell you what is the best thing, I can only tell you want i've been through. You need to get technical with it learn both motors see what are the threseholds of them and what you can do to make them at most effiecient to create the power you need to challenge your opponents.You just might prove us all wrong. And if you do, then let us all know about it....
You might not remember that one guy on the Nira circuit that took his Sohc 1.6 Si civic motor and ran 11's with it, hell I forgot his name but, he took that motor smack some carb's on that motor replaced the electronic system in it and some internal work to the motor and proved the whole circuit wrong that you don't need all the techie stuff to make it happen. Just trial and error.