Hey guys,
We decided to post up a thread introducing ourselves to this fantastic community! Depending upon your experience with vehicles outside of the ST, you may have stumbled across our brand at some point. Allow me to provide a bit of background regarding our products and company.
Mishimoto is a brand that started out in a fairly specific market producing essentially a single line of products. Performance aluminum radiators were the exact component and we developed several products for a variety of sport compact vehicles. As time progressed, we expanded to both new product lines as well as new vehicle markets. At this point, we are the leader in performance automotive cooling products and we sport a massive list of components that help our customers get the most from their vehicles from daily driven vehicles to track cars to hill climb turbocharged animals. In the past few years we’ve explored a couple markets outside of cooling components, including air intakes and exhaust components. All of our new market entries have been a huge success and we are working to build these new lines by expanding our vehicle coverage. Our product listings include the components below.
• Performance Aluminum Radiators
• Performance Intercoolers
• Intercooler Piping Kits
• Silicone Hose Kits (Both Coolant & CCV)
• Aluminum fan shrouds
• Silicone Couplers
• Clamps
• Universal Electric Fans
• Oil & Transmission Coolers (Including direct fit kits)
• Oil Catch Cans (Including direct fit kits)
• Thermostats
• Air Intake Kits
• Exhaust Components (Cat-back, downpipes, etc.)
• Various Accessories (Shift knobs, engine bay dress up, etc.)
We have a slew of awesome products that we’ve developed and perfected to bring the absolute best quality items we can to our customers doorsteps.
Along with new product lines, we’ve entered a couple new markets recently. This includes the interesting world of diesel trucks and our upcoming entry into products for classic American vehicles. These new markets are a complete blast, and we expect to be supporting these communities’ needs for quite some time.
Our most recent development targets have included the 2015 WRX and the 2015 EcoBoost Mustang! Each new vehicle we bring into the shop starts a new adventure and challenge for our engineering crew to tackle.
What sets our brand apart?
A pretty legitimate question here. Fortunately this is easily answered. Our company is constructed from a group of dedicated petrol heads. We love the automotive world and we truly focus (see what I did there?) on bringing products to market that our customers want/need. Instead of being driven by profit and piles of money, we focus on feedback from our customers to gauge company success.
On top of this, we provide a huge amount of detail and information regarding the process for R&D on each of our new products. In doing so, you aren’t just buying a product that magically came to fruition in a laboratory. We allow our customers to follow along with the development and testing process so they can offer feedback on our design and request information that they need to make an informed purchasing decision. Each product endures a very strict testing process to ensure we are releasing the absolute best.
Around the middle of next week we will be highlighting the beginning of development of a direct-fit oil cooler solution for the ST. Keep an eye out for that on the forum as well as within our blog. Here are a few teaser shots from action we saw with the ST this week.
Below is a link to our engineering blog. This site houses all coverage of product development coming out of Mishimoto. If we are working on a project this is where you can go for additional details on testing results, components included, dyno videos, etc.
Mishimoto Engineering Blog | An inside look at the engineering of Mishimoto products.
Why is Mishimoto here?
Well, we’ve certainly flirted with the idea of developing Focus ST products in the past. We recently decided to take the plunge and delve into the ST in terms of producing awesome products that you guys need. From what I understand, both an aluminum radiator and oil cooler are initial requests from the community. Additionally, we are hoping to obtain as much feedback/recommendations as possible. With that, we have an easy question for the forum folk:
1. What additional components could you use to help elevate or support the performance of your ST?
Looking forward to hearing from everyone! Have a great weekend.
-John