Does anybody know of a way to replace the AEM CAI filter without removing the bumper? That bumper is a pain when when you don't have the right tools.

 

yea, i did mine last weekend, just raise ur car, then undo the fender well plastic trim stuff, its held on by a couple screws, and its as easy as that.... you may have to bend the hose end of the filter, but its rubber so no big deal.

 

thats the way i did mine when i had em . takes only a few minutes.
i have gotten soo good at taking my front clip off thoguh, i can take that off in the same amount of time to get that flap down

 

Just reach in their with a screwdriver, undo the clamp and pop the SOB out.

 

what tools? it doesn't require anything special to remove the bumper...
do it a couple more times and you'll have it down to a science

 

the bumper is
2 10 mils to hold the bumper at the bottom to the frame
2 10 mils on each side of the car by the fenders under the hood
like 8 phillips screws for that track accros the top where the hood latch is
2 phillips screws that holds the liner to the front end ( the flaps)
take out htwe turn signals
and 1 phillips in each fender well under neath the fender line , pop out the one pop screw in each fender line to get that 1 screw inside the line and from there pop the front end off the car, its kinda like snappped inplace, so will need a littl tug on it .

damn can you tell ive done thattoo many times. sounds like alot, but i can do it in like 2 minutes, i got it down to a science.

 

you dont need to take off the bumper!! jus undo the fenderwell trim from underneath like i said!

 

YEa, I didn't even take off my bumper when I installed mine. Just turn the wheel all the way to the left OR right to get the tire outta the way and pop of those screws on the fenderwall. Easy ****

 

Are you actually referring to the fender lining in the wheel well or just the plastic lining underneath the car?

 

directly underneath the filter, is only the plastic of the fender liner extended forward, so you jus unscrew that.

 

Cool...thanks!!!

 

are you actually gonna replace the filter, rather than clean it? Mine has a K&N don't they all?

 

We stopped using K&N's filters a while ago.

 

who's we?