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The problem with haters on this board is that a lot of them don't know what they're talking about. They worship the altar of AEM, Fujita or Injen, when those companies usually don't even spend much time R&Ding filter-on-a-sticks. And they tend to slam pricier intake options like Mugen or Gruppe-M, completely failing to realize that R&D and custom part fabrication costs time and money, which leads to a pricier tag. Cheaper intake makers tend to take off-the-shelf piping components--find the right piping combination that fits from their parts bin, send the prototype to China for mass factory production--and viola--a $300 intake. Like K20SDN said, we don't get quality parts stateside because people here are too cheap to spend money on parts.

These same people tend to arbitrarily slap parts on their car (filter-stick and sway bar here, Taiwanese coilover there) and think some dyno chart explains everything you need to know.