Mondeo ST24 Airfilter

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Ive got an ST24, the car is fitted with a Pipercross cone air filter (the foam type).
Ive noticed the engine bay gets very hot as does the air filter itself, would I be better off replacing it with a standard airbox?
Im not really a fan of pipercross filters and im sure the hot air cant be helping performance, it must be taking in lots of hot air as its positioned behind the battery and gets very little air flow.
 
My ST24 runs better with the standard filter than it does with an induction kit without cold air intake.
I'm sure a cold air intake would improve things.
 
Guv said:
My ST24 runs better with the standard filter than it does with an induction kit without cold air intake.
Yeah, thats what I was hoping, im not really looking to improve peformance as such, just rather wouldnt lose performance due to a stupid cone filter.
 
Just get a new panel filter or performance panel filter than look at ways to improve air flow to the filter housing if at all possible.
 
Cone filter with no cold feed is going to be worse than a standard filter box. I'd get hold of an airbox and put a new performance panel filter inside.
 
There is a cold air feed cut into the standard side arch for the OEM box filter assembly. You could either adapt that existing snorkel to feed your cone type, or take a ducted under spoiler scoop feed.

Whilst the induction comedy sound effects with a cone filter on the v6 are a bit of a laugh, in the summer the heat soak is pretty bad.
 
needmorespeed said:
try and find an st200 airbox instead of the standard one as it has 2 air intakes instead of 1 :)

Good luck with that. A friend had an ST200 with a K&N induction kit on it, and he searched high and low to get a proper airbox without any luck.
 
Dogbreath said:
Good luck with that. A friend had an ST200 with a K&N induction kit on it, and he searched high and low to get a proper airbox without any luck.
Aye, theres only one 24ST airbox for sale on ebay, never ever seen an ST200 airbox for sale.
 
[TW]Fox said:
People always assumed parts at dealers are a ripoff, IME they are very reasonable.

He used to work at Vospers so gets hefty discount and he still considered the price OTT. He sold the ST200 a while back, was a lovely car though.
 
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