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Can I put a cold air intake and a short ram intake in my 05 civic lx coupe at the same time?

How would you?































Your throttle body only has an outlet for one intake.































Moreover, your car already has a cold air intake.































And further to the point, seeing as both of them only add 1-2 horsepower anyway, it's not like you'd be maximizing any gains at all, by doing this.































Absolutely ridiculous.































Here, think of it this way, can you put more nostrils in your nose, so you can breath more air?































That's essentially what you're asking to do.































More nostrils or not, it's still the same volume of air that can go in. Your lungs can only handle so much air going in, your throttle body can only handle so much air. Doesn't matter if you have a 10 foot wide intake. You still have a choke point.

No. They are too different intakes. The cold air is mounted outside of the fender well or in the bumper or down below the engine to lower the air intake temperature and increase power. The short ram just replaces the restrictive stock intake but usually leaves the air filter in the same location. Both well give a better sound, but the sound of a cold air is usually more aggressive due to the echo effect of the longer tubing.

No you can't do both. As was stated, one is short, the other is long.















As for the nose analogy...it's a little flawed. If you had more nostrils you would take in more air quicker. It's like breathing through your nose or breathing through your mouth.































Your car does have a cold air intake already, but stock intakes tend to be more restrictive and favor quietness over higher flow. Think of breathing through a straw when you could be breathing through a snorkel. Most cold air intake kits wont get you much colder air, but it will be less restrictive. I recently had a short ram intake which was just a replacement of stock pipe and left the filter where it was which means the new cone filter was actually taking air from under the hood. this ment the air was hotter but less restrictive being that it was now with a cone filter. the result was a slight increase in gas mileage.















0.1L/100km better.















I then extended the filter down into the fender to get cold air so that i had the cold air i did when it was stock with the added benefit of a better filter and tube system. the result was that i went from 7L / 100km to 5.6L / 100km which worked out to be about 30mpg to 42mpg.















The power you wont really notice as much, but i did run slightly faster quarter mile times. 0.4 seconds.