It might. I only know about the fours, sinc that's all i ivestigated. In my
case there are isues of room and clearance. Going to a longer motor (front
to back) woul ahve worked but nbeen impossible to work on. Anyone who's
doing something like this is kidding thmeselves if they think they can drop
it in and go.

-M



"trainfan1" wrote in message
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Mike Cleaves wrote:
A little bit of apples and oranges here Greg. I see you took the 280 a
CI
of the engine. You need to read it the other way The 280 refers to the
outdrive, not the engine displacement, so there is no correlation
between
the 270 and 350. What he has is a 4 cyl Volvo engine (aq125) hooked up
to a
Volvo 270 outdrive.

You could do a direct swap with any Volvo 4 cyl, like these aq125a,
aq125b
and the aq130. All of those will just bolt up and the gear ratio for
the
drive will be fine.

The real question is what is a Volvo 740? If it's a 6 cyl, the drives
gear
ratio may have to be changed and if it's an 8 cyl it most DEFINITELY
will.
The nice part about those outdrives (270 & 280) is they are very
interchangeable and you can get a properly geared upper gearbox fro a
280 OR
270 and just slap it on (I am 99.999999% sure of this).




Mike,

Won't the inline-6 Volvo bolt right up too? There's a smooth set-up for
you...

Rob