well, the aem cai is not that difficult to put in, but the stock intake is a biatch to take out! i was by myself and it took me 3 hours to get the cai in...2.5 of that was removing the stock crap...if you're going to put it in, i definately recommend going to outerwears.com and picking up a prefilter for it...my cai sucked up water in a bad rain storm and choked the motor out...i thought i hydrolocked but no...the water was almost half way up the tube (no, i didn't submerge it). an easy mod that makes the car sound badass!!! believe me