# S12 200sx engine advice **URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/s12-200sx-engine-advice/134232 **Category:** Canada Nissan Automotive **Created:** [August 20, 2007, 10:57pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/s12-200sx-engine-advice/134232 "2007-08-20T22:57:41Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 15
### Author: ![IDRIVEA200SX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ec9cab/32.png) [@IDRIVEA200SX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/IDRIVEA200SX) #### Post date: [August 23, 2007, 9:12pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/s12-200sx-engine-advice/134232/15 "2007-08-23T21:12:56Z")
> [@wts: 95' esi and 90' tsi](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wts-95-esi-and-90-tsi/1866/14): > > wow james, you are quite the dreamer! > > to twin charge these motors, you need to find a supercharger for them. as far i know, there are no superchargers that bolt onto any of those motors. so it would all be custom. > > I only know of 2 supercharged SR’s and they suffer from crushed bearings because the motor wasnt designed to handle low RPM boost. you would likely run into the same problem. more-so the CA then the KA. > > twin turboing a 4 cylinder is stupid. there wouldnt be enough exhaust energy to spool 2 decent sized turbos. the drag caused by 2 turbos as apposed to 1 is another factor that would deminish any of your gains. there would also be a lot of piping. > > if you want to avoid lag, build a KA24, and bolt on a garret GT28RS. it would be a lot cheaper then your ideas with much better results. > > or you could try and fit a VQ. just speculating. I have no experience with nissan motors, so yeah, going on advice others give me. (i’ve seen supercharged rotaries, and they’re bad ass) as for VQ, bleh, never been a fan of V6 or V8 engines. I’ll let Dennis have the final word, since he’s doing the swap, but it’ll probably be a KA or his RB20, since the dam thing is lying around anyways. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/s12-200sx-engine-advice/134232)._