Marcos Maniacs

Anyone know if the wheels from a late '60s 1800 volvo-engined car 
will fit on a 1973 3 litre (Volvo) car?  

My father has the Marcos about 250miles away and wants me to buy him 
some wheels that he's seen advertised.  The PCD sounds similar, but 
I'm not sure.

Martin

Welcome Martin!

Paul Dransfield has a 3 carb marine set-up on his I believe and Mark 
Petrinovich has the stock set-up.  You can check out both cars at 
the "Marcos Maniacs" website.  Both gentlemen also subscribe to this 
list.  

Where are you/the car located?  In the states?

Don Lattimer
#3M5759
Willits, CA

--- In MarcosManiacs@y..., "martin_easterbrook" 
<martin.easterbrook@v...> wrote:
> Anyone know if the wheels from a late '60s 1800 volvo-engined car 
> will fit on a 1973 3 litre (Volvo) car?  
> 
> My father has the Marcos about 250miles away and wants me to buy 
him 

> some wheels that he's seen advertised.  The PCD sounds similar, but 
> I'm not sure.
> 
> Martin

Hi Don,

I'm in Farnborough, England (about 40miles SW of London).  
Unfortunately the car is at my father's house in Cornwall (far SW of 
England, about 250 miles away), so I only get to play with the car 
now and again.  It's much more fun to drive when I'm in the car on 
my own though - I don't like driving it slowly, it doesn't 
feel "right" somehow.  There are lots of empty tight and twisty 
roads in Cornwall - hussling the Marcos along them is loads of fun, 
the handling really shines at high speed.


Thanks for the pointers, I'll check out this site more fully 
tomorrow at work - I'm on a 56k link here at home.  I'll try to get 
hold of some pics and post them here too.

Martin

--- In MarcosManiacs@y..., "mcaqmd" <donlattimer@p...> wrote:
> Welcome Martin!
> 
> Paul Dransfield has a 3 carb marine set-up on his I believe and 
Mark 
> Petrinovich has the stock set-up.  You can check out both cars at 
> the "Marcos Maniacs" website.  Both gentlemen also subscribe to 
this 
> list.  
> 
> Where are you/the car located?  In the states?
> 
> Don Lattimer
> #3M5759
> Willits, CA
> 
> --- In MarcosManiacs@y..., "martin_easterbrook" 
> <martin.easterbrook@v...> wrote:
> > Anyone know if the wheels from a late '60s 1800 volvo-engined 
car 
> > will fit on a 1973 3 litre (Volvo) car?  
> > 
> > My father has the Marcos about 250miles away and wants me to buy 
> him 
> > some wheels that he's seen advertised.  The PCD sounds similar, 
but 

> > I'm not sure.
> > 
> > Martin

Martin,

Without knowing the stud diameter of the Volvo P1800, I couldn't tell you
but the stud diameter for the 3 litre Volvo Marcos is 4 1/4 inches. At least
that's what's on my car.

Regards,

Paul Dransfield
3 litre Volvo

-----Original Message-----
From: martin_easterbrook [mailto:martin.easterbrook@...]
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 5:54 PM
To: MarcosManiacs@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [MarcosManiacs] Marcos 1973 3 litre Volvo wheel fitment


Anyone know if the wheels from a late '60s 1800 volvo-engined car 
will fit on a 1973 3 litre (Volvo) car?  

My father has the Marcos about 250miles away and wants me to buy him 
some wheels that he's seen advertised.  The PCD sounds similar, but 
I'm not sure.

Martin



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My references indicate the Volvo had a five stud wheel with a PCD of 4 1/2
inches ( 122 series was the same as the 1800)
see:
 
http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Pit/9975/dataBySubject/WheelBoltPatterns.
html

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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	pauldransfield@... [SMTP:pauldransfield@...]
> Sent:	Friday, January 18, 2002 8:52 AM
> To:	MarcosManiacs@yahoogroups.com
> Subject:	RE: [MarcosManiacs] Marcos 1973 3 litre Volvo wheel fitment
> 
> Martin,
> 
> Without knowing the stud diameter of the Volvo P1800, I couldn't tell you
> but the stud diameter for the 3 litre Volvo Marcos is 4 1/4 inches. At
> least
> that's what's on my car.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Paul Dransfield
> 3 litre Volvo
>   
> -----Original Message-----
> From: martin_easterbrook [mailto:martin.easterbrook@...]
> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 5:54 PM
> To: MarcosManiacs@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [MarcosManiacs] Marcos 1973 3 litre Volvo wheel fitment
> 
> 
> Anyone know if the wheels from a late '60s 1800 volvo-engined car 
> will fit on a 1973 3 litre (Volvo) car?  
> 
> My father has the Marcos about 250miles away and wants me to buy him 
> some wheels that he's seen advertised.  The PCD sounds similar, but 
> I'm not sure.
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
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Thanks for verifying the PCD Paul, I asked my father to measure it 
up last night - he's not very mechanically minded though (came up 
with 4 1/8, which sounded unlikely).

Apparently, these 1800 wheels also have 4 1/4" PCD.  I'm going over 
to have a look at them tomorrow - I'll post the results here.

Regards,

Martin

--- In MarcosManiacs@y..., pauldransfield@i... wrote:
> Martin,
> 
> Without knowing the stud diameter of the Volvo P1800, I couldn't 
tell you
> but the stud diameter for the 3 litre Volvo Marcos is 4 1/4 
inches. At least

> that's what's on my car.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Paul Dransfield
> 3 litre Volvo

Hello Martin
The  pattern on my 71 Volvo 3 litre powered Marcos is 3.75 pdc with four 
7/16ths  studs.
I am guessing that your fathers car has the same induction set up as mine,I 
also to have hade a little trouble adjusting the idle ,it ticks over ok now 
but does smell a bit rich.If you do change to the triple carberator or an 
injection system please let us know how things go.
Good luck .Mark