Just when we thought we’d seen everything, a Malaysian tuning shop with a taste for JDM vehicles shows up with some crazy engine swaps that are likely to please some but aggravate others. Yung Lee ...

Engine swapping traces its roots to post-WWII hot rodders who turned military ingenuity into a permanent fixture of American car culture. A numbers-matching engine on a 1969 Camaro Z/28 can command ...

At this point, mixing and matching the Big Three U.S. auto manufacturers' V-8 powerplants, both internally and across all brands of vehicles—engine-swapping, if you will—is a tried-and-true practice.

Engine swaps open up a lot of possibilities for project car builders. One of the most common engine swaps to see is the LS swap, with everyone from drift car builders to drag racers opting to use GM's ...

We’ve seen many Volkswagen Vanagon camper vans with a Subaru engine at the back, but this Type 2 from the second generation is quite unusual. For a DIY job, it looks impressive and sports some good ...

Since the early '90s, Honda enthusiasts have been obsessed with cross-platform engine swapping. Borrowing a page from the original hot rod playbook, they'd install larger, more powerful engines than ...

Daud Gonzalez is a lifelong car enthusiast and automotive writer with a specialty in modified and race-ready rides. He spends most of his time modifying his cars and ruining them in the process. He is ...

Poet Robert Frost once wrote, "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." In other words, you could do an LS swap, but there are so ...

Ford introduced the EcoBoost engine for the 2010 model year, and while the idea of a turbocharged engine and direct injection fuel delivery was not new, it brought a breath of fresh air to the scene.

It's hard to believe that General Motor's LS series of engines have been with us for 20 years. Introduced in 1997, performance enthusiasts quickly learned all this new design had to offer—these ...

Anyway, I’ll get back to the Ford part of this story in a few minutes, as I want to discuss the latest engine swaps in Gran ...