Acura Builds Itself A 40th Birthday Present To Celebrate Its Imsa-winning Heritage

Today is Acura's day successful nan United States market! 40 years ag connected March 27, 1986, Honda introduced its luxury marque pinch now-beloved models, nan Legend and nan Integra. To celebrate, Acura has recreated its very first title car, nan number 48 Comptech Integra that was a back-to-back IMSA International Sedan bid victor successful 1987 and '88. Called nan Acura Integra 40 Racer, it will debut astatine nan 51st Acura Grand Prix successful Long Beach, California, adjacent month.

Mike Langel, Acura's adjunct vice president of sales, said, "As we observe nan 40th day of nan Acura brand, we're not conscionable honoring our history, we're accelerating toward a early that will proceed to beryllium defined by daring innovation, a heavy committedness to Acura customers and our Precision Crafted Performance marque DNA." The Integra 40 Racer retains its original motor and transmission, though they person been rebuilt, and a fewer modern touches person been added to liven it up a bit.

The original Acura Integra was much than conscionable a fancy type of an system car, it was a fancy type of nan already-brilliant Honda Civic. Improving connected nan Civic, which has put driving enjoyment higher connected its privilege database than astir of its competitors for decades, produced Integras that were a delightful and uncommon operation of awesome to drive, comparatively affordable, and easy to unrecorded with.

This Integra 40 Racer, though, is simply a stripped-down, race-ready car. Its rebuilt D16A1 1.6-liter four-cylinder motor primitively produced 113 horsepower, but nan 40 Racer's features a coil-on-plug conversion, stainless alloy 4-2-1 long-tube headers, a Monsoon ECU, a Torsen-type constricted gaffe differential, and a civilization Borla exhaust. Other modifications see coilover suspension, a manual brake conversion pinch capacity brake pads and stainless braided brake lines, lightweight wheels pinch semi-slick tires, and an adjustable panhard bar. The interior is stripped retired and features a civilization rotation cage arsenic good arsenic a brace of OMP racing seats pinch reddish six-point information belts, though nan original dashboard remains.

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Finished successful Rio Red Metallic paint, I deliberation Honda Racing Corporation USA displayed spectacular restraint erstwhile designing this commemorative recreated title car. It looks play correct, and much importantly, it looks for illustration a hoot and a half to drive.