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Seems like an oversight to me or an unnecessary penalty that an actual Monk of the Four Winds doesn't benefit fully from taking the Dragon Ferocity.
Special: Taking this feat allows you to qualify for the Elemental Fist feat (Advanced Player's Guide 158) even if you do not meet that feat's prerequisites. If you do not meet that feat's prerequisites, you must choose one of the damage types that feat offers, and you can use only that damage type with your Elemental Fist attacks until you meet the feat's normal prerequisites. A monk with this feat can use Elemental Fist as if he were a monk of the four winds (Advanced Player's Guide 112).
In other words a regular monk with dragon ferocity can gain the full benefits of elemental fist but a monk of the four winds can't gain the full benefits of stunning fist. I recognize that stunning fist is a pre-requisite for the ability. If, however, you've already qualified for and taken stunning fist as a Monk of 4W, it seems fair and unbroken to me that they could gain the same benefits from stunning fist. As it is, they have to wait until they get BAB of +8 for stunning fist which is penalty enough on it's own.
As things stand, you would have to convince your GM to let this work. Can this be errata'd under the Dragon Ferocity description? (Or under the Monk of 4W archetype replacement effect part of the elemental fist description?)