Please excuse my ignorance and I have not taken any pictures yet but I notice in my engine bay at the front on the left is a cone shaped filter of some sort. Just above that is a large square box that I assume is the air filter? Fairly large, around 10-12 inches in length. Any ideas what this is?

I can provide pics if required but the weather is bad and it's dark at the moment.

EDIT - attaching a picture, not of my engine but I have circled in red what I don't have, in it's place is a cone shaped filter of some sort.

if you have had the front headlights 'facelifted.' then the old missing box wont fit behind the newer bigger type. , so you use a cone type AIR FILTER. like a K+N make, there will also be a smaller one tucked in behind it, under the bonnet panel. on a vertical pipe. as that pipe would normally have gone into old box too. it makes the engine a bit more roar-ey on foot down accelleration too. mine has one, but mine is a little loose, and should really be braced with a small tie-piece of metal to the bonnet slam panel, to stop it wiggling when driving on rough terrain. (from the jubille clamp. ) the filter connnects to the AFM or air flow meter, sometimes called 'mass airflow' or MAF thats the tube next to the cone, with a connector these are a little brittle inside, and so the sturdyness of the cone is to protect the MAF/AFM

Those cone filters have different ways of cleaning/ change-out milage distances. they are only about £15 you need to know the hole size.

Last edited by johnboyairey on 7th Jan 2015 6:59pm. Edited 1 time in total

ah - ok that explains it. Thanks. I have noticed it roars when accelerating but not as much as a friends 1989 Range Rover, that makes a proper loud V8 roar.

your only drawback using the cone, is its ever so slight risk to water ingress against the enclosed type if you were wading in VERY deep water with a bow-wave, as the original would be drawing air from the inner wing (i think.)

Thanks for the info regarding the bow wave, the only time this would happen is if I'm hit by a Tsunami. I don't off road or like to take the car in deep puddles/rivers

They sound great

So what is the best modification you can make to these 4.4v8 engines to make them sound like a monster?

Only option will be the exhaust , but it won't be legal .......

Anyway this kind of vehicle prides itself to be high end limousine and infact soundproofing is superb on these vehicles .

So tryng to get V8 Roaaar on a L322 is against it's nature . Jaybear

2002 V8 , premier edition , 19" alloys ,