Has anyone done it??????

The 9-series cars (first year 1991, 1997-1998 as S90) used either the B230F-base 4-cylinder or a 6-cylinder engine. Though the early I6s (I think they were inline) put out about 200 hp (not sure why later ones were tuned down), I'd recommend staying away from them. For the first few years of the line the 6-cylinder engines had issues with a soft (cylinder?) head, which is a not-fun and expensive problem to fix.

The 4-cylinder turbo engines can easily get to 200 hp, anyway. They are pretty straightforward to put into a 240, as these things go. The turbos are built off of the same blueprints as the B230Fs, as far as I know. There might be some mounting/clearance issues, some new or redone wiring things to take care of, and maybe a handful of other things, but the swap isn't that tough, as engine swaps go.

A 5-cylinder was never used in the 9-series, or any of the RWD cars, for that matter. The 850s have a 5-cylinder engine, and so do some of the current model Volvos. Some people have swapped these engines into different (non-5-cylinder) cars, but that's going to be a tougher job. It's not worth it, if you ask me, due to the availability of cheap turbo engines from the 700s and 900s.
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'89 244 GL -- 105,XXX miles (see profile for info on car)

thanks!!

If you mean 960 or an in-line six cylinder, the answer is yes, someone in Sweden put a 960 IL6 with a S80 T6 set-up into a 240.

If you mean 850, or 5 cyl then I've never heard of anybody doing that.

And NO the 9xxx series didn't use only the B230F/FT, the B6304S was also used in the 960 (six cyl)
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'89 245 Sportwagon, '04 V70 2.5T Sportwagon

Would that be the 4 or 6 cyl engine??? A 4 cyl would be direct bolt in. I wouldn't do a 6 cyl, those have a nasty habit of cracking blocks.

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Happy Bricking!!! - Richard - '87 245 DL , '82 242 GLT - Half a million km between them!!!

that is a nasty habit...
don't know much about the 9 series power plants... did they ever use the 5 cyl?? 5 cyl turbo???

sorry bout that, we're talking 9 series...

That shouldn't be very hard....the 9 series still used a B230F/B230FT for most or all of the run. Might be a bit of effort with engine management hookups on the newer engine, but should be do-able.

Nate Gundy
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'86 240DL sedan, 260K miles, M46, K cam, 25/23mm sways, 260 front and wagon rear springs; http://valvespringcompressor.weblogs.us/

Did they go to a 5 cyl. turbo with the 9 series?? if so...
do you know if the same engine mounts were used?
same transmition?
as the B230?

Do you mean an 850? and if so I haven't heard of it done... would be neat though.
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Dan D. '85 245 DL 'Puff the Magic Wagon' , '93 945 .
Delanisdjd*at*msn.com

What's a 950?
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'73 142, '75 242, '75 245, '80 245, '83 244, '86 244, '87 745T, 92 244 (for sale)

What's a 950?

It's a 960 but with one of the cyliders misfiring or with a valve stuck in the open position. A good tuneup and running synthetic oil will help turn a 950 back into the 960 it was ment to be.

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-A little bit of brickboard humor.