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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)
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