Engine swap calls

[Dapedo]

Hello, After you do engine swap, how will you call your car ?

Example, if you have e30 320 and you will swap b25, will call it e30 325 or just 320 ?

How about if you have e30 316 and do m54b30 swap, will you call it e30 with 3 liter ?

Just curious cause some people will use original name of the model even its swapped and some people will call it as new name.

[BristolE30]

Better to keep calling it a 316 and then smoke your mates at the red lights

[twright]

I never called my M50 swapped 325i anything. It was too much fun to drive to stop and think about it.

[Brianmoooore]

As far as official stuff goes, it stays as it left the factory.
"320i" is a model name used by BMW, just as "Mondeo" was used by Ford. By an intentional coincidence, 320i references the model type and its engine capacity, but its still just a model name.