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It's mostly in the fuel curves. The CX only has an 8 valve engine, so it has a smaller intake air/fuel charge and corresponding less agressive fuel mapping.
Yeah the ECU are very different. When i swaped a 16 V head on my CX block i was running the CX(P05) and it ran like crap b/c of the different fuel curves.