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Re: [MarcosManiacs] Re: MORE MARCOS CAR OWNERS FOUND

2005-09-13 by larry meadows

Phil,
On the temp., check the instrument voltage regulator out put. It should be +5v with the ignition on. It will pulse slightly between 4.5 and 5.1 volts. Mine seemed to run hot, but the regulator was bad. I made a solid state regulator, now it reads 5.0 volts constant. This may not solve your problem, but if you want to try this, I will send you the details for the solid state unit. You might check the radiator preassure cap to see if it is opening at the correct temp.
On the exhaust, I took my head pipe to a muffler shop and had them bend pieces to the proper shape them fabricated mine by cutting and fitting the pieces and tack welding them together then had a weld shop neatly weld it all together. I had to use the origional 2-port flange
as I couldn't find a new one.Will send pix if that would help.
Larry
3v5536

Stephen Spalding wrote:
Don
I did not know the Palo Alto British show was on this year. Would have liked to make it!
Thanks
Stephen
#5619T
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 4:47 PM
Subject: [MarcosManiacs] Re: MORE MARCOS CAR OWNERS FOUND

Phil,

Thanks for the report and new contact. I attended the Palo Alto, CA
British show and also saw a lot of interest in the Marcos. Didn't
see any of the other 10 Bay Area cars there though. Maybe they got
lost...

There are 19 Volvo 6 cars in North America. Someone should be able
to help. Larry??

Don
#3M5759


--- In MarcosManiacs@yahoogroups.com, "perronphilip"
wrote:
> I showed my Marcos at the Vintage Fall Festival at Lime Rock
> Race park on Labor Day weekend. Lots of remarks on the car at the
> show that included 400 cars. At the show I ran into a guy that has
> both a british import race car, and a wood chassis car. After
> chatting with them a bit they indicated that a little help on the
> racer would be appreciated. So here is some info. Nick Julian in
New
> York. E-mail adress WEIRDCAR@H... . I told them what web
> sites they should be looking at so he may have contacted you
> already. Drop a line.
> On another subject, you have been talking about the car in
the
> December 1970 Car & Driver magazine. My car is an original yellow
> car. I do have a 5 bolt hub steering wheel, also is an automatic
> car. I have also seen the car that was in Enfield Ct. That was
also
> yellow. I don't recall what it had for a steering wheel. How ever
> the Car & Driver car has a rear marker light on it. The Enfield
car
> and my car do not have any marker lights on them. It would be fun
to
> find that car!
> This is the first time I've posted on the site. I have been
> getting eveybodys postings. Alot of stuff is about v6 engines and
4
> cylinder engines. How many Volvo are out there. Id like to here
> about Volvos. My Volvo runs hot. My automatic no matter how adjust
> the linkage, I either get no 1st or no park? I need a new down
pipe
> off the manifold. Are there any available. Any info would be
> helpfull. Phil PGPERRON@M...


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