I am more than a wee bit confused here...................................

Noisy Boy. Why 'should' a car make more torque than power? Hondas don't. Power is just a mathematical function of torque given over a specified time period. What do you want from your car mate? For reliability I;d switch to anything other than K-Jet, cos thats where most of the problems I had with my 9 S2's came from.

Find out what you want from your car, then spec the engine around that.

If you want a torquey monster then build yourself a big capacity bottom end running low(ish) boost and roll about. If you want a big power screamer, build a steel 1600 cvh with solid lifters etc and run 2 bar. It's all up to you. Just stop confusing us with your posts