[Ryephile]

You're reading way too much into this. It's all about fun. IMO, the 2ZZ in N/A form is annoying mainly due to its worthless small-cam torque, even in the Elise. The transition from small to big lift cams is immature and misguided. The driver can't adapt the road to the engines' preferred output range, it has to work everywhere. A supercharged 2ZZ behaves like a smooth n/a engine with a balanced and flat torque curve, because it flattens the transition between small and big lift cams. The supercharger makes for a nice band-aid to fix the drivability woes of the stock 2ZZ.

A big laggy turbo in a 2ZZ would absolutely suck. We're getting off topic, because the problem with the 2ZZ won't carry over to the FA20, which doesn't have 2-stage lift.

Since the FA20 is a new engine and very few know how it drives, we're all back to making theoretical arguments.

Long story short: I just want an engine that has good smooth predictable drivability. That means no obvious cam lift stage [i.e. VTEC and VVTL-i] and no turbo.