If I gave you a dollar for an apple, you would hand me the apple. We essentially "swapped" items.


Guys doing a crown vic or diesel "swap", does this mean that the twin I beam suspension was put back into the crown vic, does this mean the 351M was re-installed into the 94 dodge truck that the 12V came out of? I'd like to see those build threads too.


Bear with me, still learning English.

 

I mean this most respectfully, no offense to anyone, the term "swap" strikes me as odd. In the old days we just called it an "install", (I installed a 428 from a mustang, I installed grans Cherokee lower control arms, etc) so....kind oif confusing to me, is all.

 

If you are truly just learning English.............there are a lot of things that don't make sense. Like.......Why do we park in a drive way but drive on a park way? Why do we call them apartments....when they are so close together??? In reality......we don't speak English in the USA.......talk to a true Englishman some time and you will figure that out.......LOL

 

Your apple example is a purchase, which is generally an exchange of monteary items for a non monetary item. A swap, is generally an exchange of an non monetary item for a non monetary item.

In regards to engines, an install would be putting an engine into an empty engine bay, where a swap generaly means removing one engine to replace it with another. The fate of the engine being removed has no bearing on the situation.

Where are you from?

 

I understand what you are saying.......when speaking of an engine swap, it is often regarded as swapping out one engine into one car.
Where the engine came from or what it is going in doesn't matter in the case of "an" (singular grammar here) engine swap (meaning one engine, one car).



In English swapping 2 motors into 2 vehicles would be called engine swaps (plural grammar of swap meaning more than one)


Hope this helps. Sometimes you will have to look into what is happening in the sentence, use a bit of common sense and decipher what it means. English has to many oddities in it to be easy to learn. Good luck and keep asking questions.....

 

I know what you're getting at. As a stickler for correct terminology, I also feel the same way. The kicker for me is the word "upgrade". In the true sense of the word, an "upgrade" would denote replacing an inferior part with a new part that was of better quality than OEM as well as performing better than OEM, getting better mileage than OEM, et al.

For example, "I upgraded my Ford with a Cummins engine." In no conceivable way is this actually an upgrade. Replacing an engine perfectly suited for automotive use with one that is barely adequate for stationary power generation is not an upgrade.

Most things that people consider an upgrade are little more than aftermarket, sub quality parts that actually hurt reliability.

 

Since I'm on the subject of terminology, Ford never made an "extended cab", "extra cab", or "x-cab".

 

Nor did Ford make a "highboy", "dentside" or "bumpside".

There are many terms we use here - one must simply pick them up in context. Or ask...

 

You'll never read anything from me using those terms either.

Shortened words like "dizzy" for "distributor" and "prolly" for "probably" are nothing short of laziness. Abbreviations and acronyms are also incredibly irritating.