Searched eBay two weeks ago just for the helluva it and found an AEM CAI being sold by a guy who bought one but never installed it. Final price to me $167! For that kind of price I thought why the heck not?

A neighbor friend and I spent Saturday installing it (about 4 hours total) and did the requisite test drive afterwards. With the Borla exhaust I put on earlier this year, I LOVE the sound of this car so much better. You really hear this beautiful air sucking sound when it winds up. I'm not so sure about any performance gain but my neighbor who drove it before and after said he felt a "definite pull" around 7k RPMs. That's also when it audibly screams the most. We did a u-turn in a subdivision to get back onto a country road heading home and three young boys were yelling to us "what is that?!" and their father was sheilding his eyes to take a better look. Now my car occasionally turns heads but never like that! The sound surely is not obnoxious but throaty (mostly because of the Borla) and for $167, the additional airy whine of the CAI was worth it.

All-in-all = cool upgrade for the money.

 

I have the REVI + Ram Air but your are right the sound its really cool. Mine starts to better around 6 k. You should look into the ram air duct I think it makes a big difference.

 

unless i'm mistaken, the aem cai has the filter placed in the front bumper getting direct air flow, so the revi air duct isn't going to help him any.

 

Correct.

 

My bad I wasn't really famaliar with the AEM CAI. I'm glad I like the CAI though.

 

bringing old forms back