How do people fit engines into cars not ment for them?

Question

I’ve seen engine swaps and stuff and I am wondering how people fit engines/transmissions that are for bigger cars.

I’ve seen the SRT Hellcat in the Prius and how they modified the car basically around the engine but I’m interested in like how they fit something like the Viper V10 or LS into cars that don’t have the same engine compartment but it doesn’t look like they did anything to it.

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Answer 1

When you see a REALLY wild engine swap where the car does not look heavily modified on the outside, what they USUALLY do is remove the fenders, hood, grill, bumper, etc. All the parts that you see from the outside (also called the front clip). Then they’ll cut away the structure of the car from the firewall forward. Then they build up a new structure to carry the desired engine and transmission. Once that is done, then they can build up mount points to carry the original front clip.

If you’d like to see this done in detail, I highly recommend the “Project Binky” series from Bad Obsession Motorsports on YouTube.