I too have a '97 Civic HX with 220k on the clock.
I am going to go out and buy a no-name short ram intake and see if it'll pay for itself in MPG savings.
As of right now I've logged 7407 miles in 3 months (I crashed my last HX :x ) averaging 38.071 MPG (Minimum 33.020 Max 40.202). So I've got a pretty good pool of data to go off of.
I was wondering, before I go out and buy this short ram, have you noticed any kind of MPG increase yet? It's been about two weeks since you've posted, you must have gone through a few tanks by now.