the h22 may be a little heavier but it's still an import engine so it won't be much. and for cornering it's not all about being heavy, otherwise old ass 69' chargers would be good at it. cornering is about weight distribution, traction, and how good the driver is.

For cornering you'd be better off with an equal balance of weight over the front and rear tires, so the lighter engine would be better as the ass end of the car doesn't have much to it. also a battery relocation is a minimal but popular mod. then you get into the suspension, tie bars, thicker sway bars, shocks, springs, bushings. when the equipment is upgraded then the driver needs an upgade as well.

you have to know about contact patches on the tires, which ones are used in which cornering, etc. but that is alot to worry about when its on the street as a daily driver.

for the daily driver I tell you what I did to my 88 crx, b16 swap, front and rear upper strut bars, rear lower strut bar, stock sway bar, tokico shocks, eibach springs, battery relocate to the rear, tires 205/40 16, turbo running 10psi. I did some other stuff too but it was audio and alarm shit.

the result was 0 body roll in the corners. I could take a normal corner at a traffic light at like 35mph-40mph without hearing the wheels squeel and did I mention 0 body roll. the on ramps for the highway-----70mph +++ with no tire squeel. also if you know the brandon/riverview area there is a section of falkenburg that if you take it all the way untill it goes south of bloomingdale, just before ipolito elementry, the road gets a little twisty and I took that at 70mph with no body roll. all this and more from a car that ran 240hp+ at about 2200lbs with a b16 motor. not bad for a daily driver

you don't need the biggest beast to get what you want, remember since your not looking to be the fastest drag car at the track, just quick on the street, any honda b-series or k-series with aftermarket support will get you wher you want. the cornering on the street is 50% equipment and 50% driver.