{"id":142,"date":"2008-03-31T14:27:59","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T19:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=142"},"modified":"2008-03-31T14:27:59","modified_gmt":"2008-03-31T19:27:59","slug":"engine-swaps-are-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"Engine Swaps Are Green?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gas2.org has posted an article<\/a> about Engine RePower<\/a>, a site which advocates swapping an engine instead of buying a new car to reduce the amount of energy used to recycle your old car (because of blown engine). I do not know enough about the recycling procedures for current cars so I am unable to say with any accuracy how much energy is saved. But it got me thinking, we have seen many older cars from the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s receive a modern swap. Many engines in those periods had great horsepower but they cared very little on gas consumption. Engines today do a much better job of producing horsepower using less gas. Then we could get into the whole “most” swaps deal with a smaller car and this sheds weight which requires less engine for the same performance level. I guess in the end it all depends on your perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gas2.org has posted an article about Engine RePower, a site which advocates swapping an engine instead of buying a new car to reduce the amount of energy used to recycle your old car (because of blown engine). I do not know enough about the recycling procedures for current cars so I am unable to say… Read More »Engine Swaps Are Green?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6739,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=6739","url_meta":{"origin":142,"position":0},"title":"Scion FR-S with a 2JZ","author":"swaptastic","date":"June 27, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Although Pure Automotive in Millersville, Maryland services anything with four wheels their specialty is working on FR-S\/BRZs. 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