No forced induction or nitrous? Carbon synchros are a waste of money, even if you had those.
The shorter gearing from the Z3 trans will wake that engine the fuck up. Before I was turbocharged with my K20Z3 it was a blast driving around, literally threw me back to my high school days when I had a 1999 Si with the stock B16 and SHORT trans, absolutely loved it.
If you don't care for that and would rather get a mix of short/long gearing, you COULD keep the 02-04 Type S 4.3 final drive, swap the 6th gear from the Z3 over (same as 04-08 TSX 6th), swap over the helical LSD for traction and you would have a pretty neat mix of somewhat short gearing 1st-3rd and longer gearing up top for gas mileage.
BTW, only way you are going to lengthen 1st and 2nd was if you kept your old EP3 trans and cannibalized them from it.
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