The mission of a thermostat is not only to open, but to maintain the normal temperature of operation of a vehicle if you had a diagram of the cooling site of that engine you could understand the why it carries 2, I know that it carries 2 and most likely it is that it finds some step, or water outlet where the radiator circulates even A dumping wear of the parts and an unreasonable job of the engine. When something is put into an engine, it is not for pleasure, it is reason, if it were for pleasure the thermostat in the countries of warm weather did not put them as the catalysts, in my country only a catalyst bring and an oxygen sensor but the North Americans bring 2 and up to 4 catalysts and no matter the number of cylinders because the QG18 engine of the year 2000 to 03 brings 4 catalysts. The one that bring more than one thermostat your engine is not for pleasure.