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swap
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A swap means taking out the car’s original engine and putting in a different one, usually to make it faster or look cooler.
Technical Definition
A swap refers to replacing a vehicle’s original engine or major component with another, often for performance or aesthetic reasons.
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"There's no way this is a swap, right? I don't know."
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"And it's a popular swap, the 605 and 606, for all variety of whatever where you want a kind of powerful but still diesel thing."
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"That wasn't the GTI. Um, but I always wanted to do a swap and turbo it. No, never got a chance to do it."
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