All things being equal, the faster-actioned rod should create more line speed and smaller loops. What puzzles me is, from what I can gather, your own rod is shorter than 9'. Both rods should have a medium fast action and the fact that one is a two piece and the other a four piece should not really change the action of the rod. The longer rod should 'feel' slower, but should in fact be able of creating higher line speed, everything being equal. The Xplorer rods are made by the zillion without much attention being paid to spining the blank correctly. This factor alone will make individual rods in the same series feel different and will definitely influence action (stiffness is quite not the correct word). My advice would be to watch your loops, especially on the back-cast, paying attention to how the different rods load up and how you time your hauling.
Action, by the way, is determined largely by the way the rod bends when applying a force (is that the correct word?) to the tip of the rod. A fast action rod will bend primarily in the tip area (stiff butt) and a slow action will bend all the way into the handle. That may also not be quite true, as the old Orvis western action rods has the bend profile of a slowish action, but man, can those rods lay out a long line.
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