Engine swap

Process of replacing a car's engine Saab 96 with a Ford Cologne V6 engine instead of the standard Ford Taunus V4 engine Berkeley SA492 with a Honda CB400 engine Volvo B18/B20 fitted to a VW Beetle for racing 1959 MG MGA with a Mazda MX-5 engine Chrysler Intrepid with supercharged V8 and rear-wheel drive conversion In car tuning culture, an engine swap is the process of removing a car's original engine and replacing it with another. This may be a like-for-like replacement or the installation of a non-factory specification engine. Typically, an engine swap is performed for performance using a more powerful engine, but may also be performed for ease of maintenance as older engines may have a shortage of spare parts. Overview An engine swap can either be to another engine intended to work in the car by the manufacturer, or one totally different, with the former being much simpler than the latter. Fitting an engine into a car that was never intended to accept that engine may be more laborious and costly, and may involve modifying the car to fit the engine, modifying the engine to fit the car, and building custom engine mounts and transmission bell housing adaptors to interface them, alo