Well, for your plans and parts selection, it sounds it's going to be a pretty worked up motor. If your driving it on the streets as daily driver then geez, you'll be buying another car later... lol Many guys who owned worked up hondas always tend to sell it off later and buy a normal car as they had enough of that hardcore feeling. But if you've got 2 cars, it is fine.
Some guy locally put Toda B into his DC2 ITR and said it's so **** under 3000rpm, worse than stock, and doesn't go anywhere. Thats because theres a lot of lift and duration with Toda B. You get overlapping and valve float on low rpms. Of course this can be adjusted on the can gears but to a limit.
Most times anything above stg 1 cams will take out drivability in lower revs. Honda already made a racing engine for the road, so your basically shifting the power to the upper end of the revs. But Skunk stg2 seems to have same or simliar low and mid range as stock but with a manic top end, this might give more drivabilty and full on top end. I didn't want to get these for reliability reasons as they have high lifts and durations that would require a lot of attention to your valve springs, retainers etc. Good power, but more maintainance.
Buddyclubs Spec3+ cams sit right in the middle of Toda A and B. These are a new cam and so many worked rides here locally are happy with it. These suit a wider range of compression ratios from 10-13CR. I was going to get these but price threw me off. And I'll need to do more work than Toda A like retainers etc etc.
So I'm just showing you that different cams gives different drivabilities. Depends what its for and what you want. Skunk stg2 or buddyclubs seems to fit your intentions more I presume. But hey, if you've got the cash, buy and try different cams and see for yourself.
I'll stick to my Toda A and spend money tuning it to perfection as it requires less work and problems. Also gives me enough bump up in power to make a nice car to drive on the weekend comfortably without any worries or concerns. Oh, this cam gives stock idle, as well as skunkstg2 and buddyclub spec3+(more tuning). Toda B has rough idle and will start running smoother after 3000rpm because of the high durations.
As CR rises, tuning becomes harder(as blinx said), and don't worry, 12CR is nothing compared to a local DC2 ITR in sydney thats running 15+CR on race gas. lol, thats what you call shitty drivability, but when it's running up, the experience of a highly tuned N/A motor is something special. The owner of that car has another DC2 ITR thats turbocharged for the street as daily driver.
I think you need more than 98octane to run 12CR+. 100RON would be safer and keep your revs lower like no more than 9000rpm. Tuning gets tough up there and detonation is knocking on the door. But yes, you need more compression to make real use of toda B, Thats probally why Skunk stg2 makes more top end than toda B with lower CR.
Oh, as for tuner, a few years back when I didn't know much about cars, I had a bmw that I wanted to tune, I had bought some cams for it and the guy recommended me to a guy who tunes porsches to do the install. This porsche guy had a 800hp twin turbo 911 and many experinces, I thought I was in safe hands.
During the install, they had trouble with bmw's Vanos technology and difficulties arised. installation of just cams delayed for another day and half.
When I got the car back and drove off, there was noise, strange rattling sound at high cam switch point. Took it back to BMW dealers for the mechanics to do a re-install and they found stuff like missing clips, loose bits, found a missing part that fell on the undercaraige etc.. finaly got it installed correctly.. damn cost me 2 installs for that.
I'm not saying your tuner hasn't enough experience etc etc, What I'm saying is, make sure your tuners have experiences with Honda engines as every engine is different and require different skills, techniques etc. You can't always base 1 method from another engine and use it on a honda, thats just stupid.
Hope this helps, as it's somethings I learnt before and recently.
why do i have to be stuck with 91 
