Acura Wants You to Tune the Integra
It's hard to overstate the importance of the Acura Integra in the sport-compact tuner scene. Like all great Honda performance cars, the Eighties and Nineties Integras are affordable, durable, and infinitely customizable. You can mix and match from other Honda products and lean on huge aftermarket support to build your perfect Integra. Acura wants tuners to customize the newly revived Integra, too, so it's backed three builds for SEMA.
The first is from pro drifter Dai Yoshihara and Evasive Motorsports, and it's very much in the mould of a classic touring car. The interior is stripped out and fit with two bucket seats, and flared fenders house Yokohama racing slicks and BBS wheels. There are also adjustable coilovers from RSR, new rear control arms, and a big-brake kit from StopTech. The engine gets a new intake and exhaust from Honda tuning legend Spoon, plus a new intercooler. To us, it looks ready for a spot on a touring-car grid as is. Acura VP Jon Ikeda told us he wants to race the Integra, and with this car, he's got a very good template.
Next is a build from car-builder/influencer Sarah Choi. She and designer Walter Kim created a custom wide-body kit for the new Integra, which was then lowered on Tein coilovers and fit with Nexen tires on wider-than-stock Advan 19-inch wheels. Inside, it's not quite as bare as Yoshihara's Integra, but there is a new quick-release steering wheel and Bride seats. Under the hood, there's a new oil cooler and intercooler from Greddy, plus a Sports Touring cat-back exhaust.
Finally, we have the creation of Chilean BMX pro and amateur drifter Coco Zarita. This is perhaps the most "traditional tuner" build of the bunch, with a number of carbon-fiber addenda to the standard bodywork, an engine upgraded with a host of parts from A'PEX'i, HPS, and Greddy, and an interior trimmed out with seats, belts, and steering wheel from Momo. Like Yoshihara's car, it sits lowered on RSR coilovers, albeit with Michelin Pilot Sport 4S street tires and Kansei five-spoke wheels.
All three vehicles will be on display at SEMA, RadWood L.A.—which will be held at the American Honda headquarters in Torrance, CA—and at next year's Long Beach Grand Prix. Now that more Integras are making their way to customers, we expect to see more unique builds. As it should be.
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