Early Escort Air Intakes.

[cobra kid]

I saw a couple of air intakes on early Escorts at the classic car show on Sunday. The first one, I thought someone had just rested an exhaust back box on top of the engine. I walked on and saw another. Are these actually air intakes?

[Janesy B]

Don't know about MK1 Escorts but MK2 Lotus Cortinas were like this

[LuS1fer]

A few cars of various makes had air boxes like that, often with twin pipe intakes.
Most standard Escorts, Cortinas etc would have had a round pancake air box with a single nozzle containing a flap with sucked air from the exhaust manifold when cold.

My Austin A40 had a conical box. Most had a central screw and wing nut and you could change the filter in 5 minutes, unlike now.

[Janesy B]

LuS1fer said:

My Austin A40 had a conical box. Most had a central screw and wing nut and you could change the filter in 5 minutes, unlike now.

I know, I can change the filter on my focus in 3 mins.