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Well, this is a swap discussion about putting an inline-4 where a flat-4 was, so maybe it's appropriate to have it here? I'm sure there are many people who come in here and think why waste time putting a 4 cylinder where a 4 cylinder already was, and in this case, I agree with the PO that it is totally justified. I think our discussion addresses many criticisms that people will naturally have with this swap.
Anyway, I agree with most of your points above now with a few exceptions: I don't think the 928 is relevant when discussing "typical Porsche handling" (front engine), and I don't think overall body measurements of the Civic Si are relevant when discussing track (car width != track and car length != wheelbase). For reference, the BRZ has ~2 inches more track width than the Cayman up front.
And yes, I know there are good reasons why Subaru put the FA20 out front, but none of those reasons had anything to do with engineering a good sports car. It took marketing to turn this turd of an engineering choice into some BS about how they lowered the CG. If they really cared about the CG so much, all they had to do to get an equivalent change was to spec springs just 0.2" shorter. That's an almost imperceptible drop, and it would have cost them nothing.
I'll take both solutions: give me the Honda engine to fix the weight distribution and I'll buy the $300 springs to give me back that 0.2" drop in CG.
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