World’s Quickest Acura Integra Does Quarter-Mile in 7.7 Seconds at 195 MPH
Equipped with a spunky 1.8-liter VTEC making 170 horsepower and 128 pound-feet of torque, the 1994 Acura Integra GS-R was what Car and Driver’s Brock Yates proclaimed “a marvel.”
“If Porsche built this it would cost $65,000, smell like leather, have a sleek exterior, and R&T would treat it like the second coming of Dr. Ferdinand himself,” Yates said.
That wasn’t enough for English Racing’s Myles Kerr and his ’94 Integra, which he bought in 2006. With countless hours of work, Kerr’s 1,500-horsepower “Gringotegra” specializes in the half-mile on no-prep tracks. Now, Kerr can hit 195 mph in the quarter-mile in a blazing 7.715 seconds and even kisses 216 mph in the half-mile. In this unusual Integra, Kerry set a world record, hitting 213.9 mph when the Integra was a front-wheel drive car. It’s no longer front-wheel drive, as Kerr transformed it into an all-wheel drive car about two years ago.
English Racing, self-described as a performance workshop developing high performance and world-record-breaking custom builds, is the proud home of this Integra, which is a methanol-breathing machine making 1,500 hp at the wheels. And it’s street-legal.
