I'm sitting on the couch this morning contemplating putting my AEM CAI on. Can anyone who's completed this give me an idea on average time for install? I'm trying to decide if I want to get my hands dirty and finish it before it gets too late.

 

3 hours per this thread

https://www.rx8club.com/showthread.p...ht=aem+install

Post a vid of the entire install if you can.

 

You have to take off the front bumper but the front wheels might be in the way, you possibly have to take them off too...i've seen it done both ways...thats the biggest pain...but everything should go smooth...took me about 2-2.5 hours

 

when i did it took about 2.5 hours...not hard at all, but a bit time consuming.

 

Thanks for the info and thanks for the link. There are some god pics there.

 

hmmm i can see that thing going in, in like 1hr and half

 

actually took me about an hour and 45 minutes. was my first time modding my car.



forgot to say it was the MS CAI but still the same exact intake. you know.

 

all in all itts a fairly simple install...only thing thats time consuming at all is taking the bumper on and off. i dont think you will have much of a problem getting it off with the wheels still on. i took them off only because i was working on some other things. but i had the wheels on when i put the bumper on...no problems at all really! good luck

oh and dont forget to post pictures...or it never happened lol

 

i left the wheels on and with another guy on here, we swapped my stock and his AEM on both cars in a few hours. would have been faster but we were also trying to take off his greddy strut bar to swap and one of the bolts stripped, plus i had a heck of a time getting my shine AB front bumper back on just right.

should have been 2 hours tops.