Thanks CFG. I knew about the other mechanical changes, but not the alternator switching! I'll have to rig a dummy light manually and see if that holds true.
When I get to the car, I'll toss in a bottle of octane booster for s-n-g's. Among other things, carb rebuild, timing belt, and ignition tune up parts are on the way. Glad I wasn't knocking the motor to hell with regular. It's interesting that Honda used high compression with regular gas. But I'm moving from the V8 world to this Honda, so maybe the smaller/weaker motors don't need high octane as much?
More info about the car:
http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...-hf-13053.html