I bought and installed an AEM Brute Force air intake for my Blazer. It took about 30-45 mintues to install it, if you have the tool right there. If you have to round up your drill and such, then it will of course take longer. After reading many posts and other websites, I settled on AEM because it is a dry air filter. Here are a few pictures in case anyone was interested and hadn't seen an installed AEM set-up.

 

looks good

 

Looks good. The filter looks a little tight against the washerfluid resiviour though.

 

how much did it cost you? What performance did you get out of it?

 

How do you maintain(clean) the filter on that?
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It looks alittle tight, but it is a very long filter.

I bought it for about $225 (on sale). The manufacture claims a modest hp and mpg gain, but my factory box was cracked and broken so replacing it with a new one or one from the junkyard just seemed a waste. Why not upgrade? When I replaced it I also changed the plugs and wires (I recently bought the truck) so any gain in performance (there was alot in pick up, and mpg) was a combination of old plugs and wires and the new intake.

And it seems simple to maintain I bought a cleaning kit for less than $10 (two cleanings per kit) and plan to clean it every oil change. It says just use warm water and one of the bottle to wash it then wash with water then dry. And NO OIL it says repeatedly.

 

Nice sounds like a good intake system!!

 

Looks the same as mine. Just mine says Fram Boost on it.. Cleaning is simple and easy but I had to get a cheap filter to put on temporary while I waited for the filter to dry. Summit racing sells the filter cleaning kits for 8.00 now. So I'm just going to stock up on it soon.

 

That's because it is the same kit! AEM makes Fram's kit for them and uses an AEM dryflow filter. So for those of you who are contemplating purchasing an AEM kit, save yourself some money and just buy the FRAM version. You will see no difference between the two.

 

If you can find a fram for cheaper for sure, buy one. I found an AEM kit for cheaper than I could a fram.