Bad news all. Check out the email response I received from another jeep parts retailer. It looks like this intake was discontinued before it even made it to production

Unfortunately that part was discontinued. According to AEM, it actually
never made it to production even though they released all of the retail
information about it. Sorry.

Eric
kNOw Where 2Jeep

This would explain why it is no longer on the AEM website either. This just plain sucks!

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06.5 Jetta TDI PKG 2 - Silver/Anth

guess were stuck with a snorkle. when it makes it state side.

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daily driver:06 midnight blue jeep liberty CRD sport.
mods: CRD frakenlift, 245/75R16 grabbers on Soft 8's,All J interior rack,front hitch,custom intake,ORM, EHM GDE hot tune
141k miles

Well, I plan to call AEM when I get home from work in about an hour or so. I want to hear from them what exactly is going on. I will come back and post an update after I talk to AEM directly.

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06.5 Jetta TDI PKG 2 - Silver/Anth

Okay, I talked to AEM directly. The brute force intake has been discontinued before it reached production. They released the retail info back in Jan., but when they dyno tested the CRD with the prototype intake they didn't produce any additional horsepower. When asked if they gained any fuel economy in their tests, they replied that they didn't do any additional testing. I also asked them if they plan to develop another intake for the CRD and they specifically said no that because they didn't gain any HP with this item, that they weren't going to do anything else with the CRD.

I guess they marketing people didn't give it the thumbs up because they can market it unless there is a HP gain...lol.

Anyway, so much for the AEM intake....it is officially discontinued.

Will post this in a new thread and hopefully it will get announcement status.

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06.5 Jetta TDI PKG 2 - Silver/Anth