AEM Brute Force Air Intake

A E M Brute Force Air Intake Systems are designed for popular trucks, SUVs and muscle cars. They are dyno-tested to create more torque and horsepower in large displacement engines.

Although it is not a cold air intake in the traditional sense (routing the air filter outside of the engine compartment), A E M BRUTE FORCE air intakes pull the air charge from the coolest source, making them in essence cold air designs. Because of the heavy duty and off road use many trucks encounter, we designed A E M BRUTE FORCE air intakes as underhood systems to protect them from potential damage. We use a steel heat shield when necessary to shroud the filter from engine heat, and perform extensive temperature testing to ensure the vehicle is receiving the coolest air charge possible.

The Power Spacer is a plenum spacer that installs in between the intake manifold and the BRUTE FORCE throttle body. In about 5% of our applications, we have found that increasing plenum volume increases power. We test each system we develop with various Power Spacer designs, and only include Power Spacers in A E M BRUTE FORCE air intake systems when they improve performance. A E M Power Spacers feature a smooth internal design that makes more power and does not whistle the way spacers with screw type inlets do. Because they do not increase performance on every application and are designed to work specifically with BRUTE FORCE intakes, A E M does not sell them separately and includes them in kits when they increase power. BRUTE FORCE applications in our search results indicate whether a system includes a spacer.

A E M performs extensive temperature testing during the development phase of the BRUTE FORCE to ensure that the filter is in a location that will receive the coolest air charge.  For some A E M BRUTE FORCE air intakes , they found that there was no difference in inlet temperatures with and without a heat shield during temperature testing. Since A E M does not to want you to waste your money on the BRUTE FORCE kits that are not necessary, they do not include a shield with these applications.