CSVT#49
Addicted CEG'er
Well, I still think you'll need luck.
You seem like a good guy and I like your build, but I just think its funny that after you go and track one down, all of a sudden (paraphrasing your other posts) they're not anything special, they're easy to find and they're cheap. Obviously they have several benefits (the reason we both spent time to get one here) but I've just been amused by some of your posts since you got one. And I don't see this going further than getting 2 more here max, why I said good luck.
-J
First off thanks for the compliments. However I disagree with your paraphrasing a little. First, I never said the intake was "nothing special". They truly are something special here in the US, but not overseas. As all of the MK3 3.0L Mondeo's had them. I don't know if I would go to the extent to say they are easy to find and cheap. They are not as hard to find as people make them out to be, and while i bought mine for ~$250 shipped (a lot cheaper then the prices I've heard of $1500), I wouldn't consider $250 cheap considering you can pick up common intakes in yards for around $50.
The reason I bought my intake was because I wanted as much flow as possible. I could not extrude hone a plastic intake to obtain the gains I was looking for so the ST220 intake seemed to be the logically choice.
That said since I've always seen that people were asking crazy prices for their intakes and there was a general consensus that these intakes were impossible to find (I found mine after looking for an 1hr, if that) I decided I'd ask the guy that I bought mine from (a yard in the UK) if he had a few more that he could sell me. This way I could offer an oppurtinity for others to get these intakes