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hahaha.... just because the import sector brought the CAI to its current status, doesn't make AEM a honda-civic focused brand. You have a negative feeling about AEM because the import world brought their name to be as big as they are. You know K&N makes a cai for a civic too right?!
And I called you out for the ONE site because it was obvious that you googled desperately for something after I asked for proof. It was one of the first results searching for "AEM problems".... I guarantee you can find SOMEONE complaining about just about ANY product ever made by looking on google. It really doesn't prove anything as I was unable to find anything else about their products being defective.
The truth about AEM is that they got their start making cold air intakes, and were one of a handful of companies making them in the begining until everyone realized they could slap a filter on a tube and call it their own. Many do not put forth the effort into R&D that AEM does as a company. Take for example their V2 style intakes... that is some serious engineering. Not to mention, they have continuous improvement on products as can be seen in the iterations of Brute Force intakes on diesels. They now have an entire line developed to work better with Diesel engines. So to tell you the truth, I'd rather put my money into a product developed by the leader in the CAI world. I'd probably only go with something else could they prove they have some technology or reason it is better, or if i did serious off-roading and wanted something like AFE, which put's the filter in a box to protect it further.
Or perhaps the reason I have more of an appreciation for a company like AEM is because I myself am a mechanical engineer and know what goes into developing and bringing a product to market.
To wrap it up, you can have an ignorant view on AEM based on the type of vehicles they began modifying (extremely high tech cars, for their time, with small displacement motors that took some very creative methods to extract the most power possible), but I'll be informed and not biased by any misconceptions.
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