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Thought i would share, I have abit of a fetish for tinkering with things but trying to keep it all as OEM looking as possible.

The airbox is out of a Mondeo, its roughly 20% bigger in volume and filter area than the MX5 one, took a while searching the wreckers to find something with the inlet / outlet in roughly the right places.

Plan is to fab an adapter bracket for the AFM using a square block of aluminum (which could then easily be substituted for a different one to support a larger AFM, or none at all) , the inlet is going to be a little tricky because its a diagonal oval shape.

nice idea. i like the oem look to. it'll be interesting to see your progress on this, good luck and keep the pics coming

Looks cool so far. Keep us posted mate.

how is this going to be better than standard? its still going to be drawing hot air from the engine bay. Or are you still drilling a hole in the firewall?

I would imagine so Sweep

Mondeo airboxes have a snorkel out one side to draw air from behind the passenger side guard, I presume that Dave's plan is to turn the airbox (as in the pic) and use the snorkel inlet to draw air from a firewall hole.