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Which is better, a K&N air intake or a BBK intake?

I have a 2000 Ford Mustang V6 automatic and I am going to be starting to add aftermarket parts. The first thing I want to add is an intake. I have the choice of a KN or a BBK. Which one is better quality-wise and performance-wise?

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KN, i have one on my Chevy Silverado Z71 and it helped with acceleration, an air intake kit isn't going to give much HP to notice at all but the acceleration is from more air being put in the engine and being less restrictive, but to get full effect of an air intake kit you'll need an aftermarket exhaust, your putting more air in so you need to get it out just as good - theneelster, you have a point but also KN has high performance oil filters which the only filter better than the KN oil filter is the Mobil 1 oil filter, KN of course has the air intake kits but also has stock replatement filters where you can use the stock intake system if you want while i don't know if BBK even has stock replacement filters, so KN is on the market of filtering while BBK is just only the market of air intake so to me KN knows filtering better, also a bigger throttle body doesn't put it more air, just allows the air to maybe get a better air flow into the intake manifold but the fitler is what lets in more air into the whole system so a throttle body alone won't do much good if your letting the same amount of air in, not saying your wrong cause your not but just pointing something out that you might not didn't know, but im still trying to figure out why you think its bad to have that on an automatic because it has nothing to do with the transmission, even though i prefer manual but automatic isn't completely bad either
Automatic+intakefail. BBK and KN are pretty much on the same tier as far as manufacturers. Since BBK actually makes throttle bodies I would say they know intake a little bit better than kn.

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