Hi Norm,
I'd say it would be spitting grass out around the side skirt area as there would be far too much turbulence within the chassis and that interrupts the clean flow of grass to the catcher.
I've used quite a few Honda's in my time and they are rather clean in the way they function with debris pick up, while mine was quite untidy with the Victa Mulch & Cut Disc and correct Victa blades fitted.
Sad part is I currently don't have any lawn that requires the services of a slasher type mower to give it a run and test it out.
I've been waiting for over a week now for the blades I purchased and they finally turned up today and I still had to correct the shape of them (cheap Chinese crap) so that they would all cut at the same height or close enough anyway but with all blades being somewhere within 15 height difference this just isn't good enough. So out to the shed I went and corrected this issue.
So I'm waiting now to be able to cut my neighbors lawn that I'm looking after as I just did it yesterday with her Masport, which incidentally had a really good feel to it and far better than any top handle mounted Victa machine I've used over the years.
Horses for Courses I guess.
Cheers,
BB.