1500hp, 216mph- This Is The World’s Fastest Honda Integra | American Tuned ft. Rob Dahm

I am out in the Pacific Northwest avoiding rainstorms, and I have quite the treat to share with you guys. This is the world's fastest Integra. In fact, that's the first of many titles that I could give this. This is also the fastest front wheel drive vehicle in the half mile, and I'm sure the list of that goes on and on. But the owner, Miles, has been a friend of mine for many years, and I am super excited to talk with him and share with you guys what this car is all about. I see, it's been a couple of years. Yeah, that's right. We actually met at a half mile event, and I saw his car go by, and this car is, to me, infamous. It's got a little reputation of what it's been able to do, and I wanted to run over just ... We could geek out, and we will throughout this episode, but I want to talk about the high level of what this car is. It's clearly far from stock. Yeah, far from stock. I mean, they came front wheel drive, now it's an all wheel drive car. This car makes roughly 1,500 to the wheels, methanol breathing, and the coolest part is I still drive it on the street, and it is still street legal. I went from rear wheel drive to all wheel drive, you went from front wheel drive to all wheel drive. To all wheel drive, yeah. Yeah, so we met in the middle. That's right. For what we do, it's like, well, no prep racing, half mile stuff, all wheel drives are the fastest cars out there. That's right. And you know what? I want to experience that first on the street. You want to go take it for a drive? Let's go, let's go, yeah. Okay, let's do it. Awesome. See you guys. This being early spring, we drive right into the kind of Pacific Northwest rain that once stopped the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Sure, the Actra was a two wheel drive record holder, but Myles' all wheel drive swap comes in handy on days like this. Generally speaking, smooth, compared to some of the projects I've driven. I actually haven't put this thing in the rain and driven it for a long time. Yeah. I've never driven on these tires on wet, so I'm like being super cautious. 100%. It's actually kind of impressive how small your engine is, how much power it makes, and the fact that you can still drive it like this, that it's not... Try to not make it a complete race car that you hate. Yeah. With totally inappropriate tires to handle the four digits of horsepower in the wet, and with the rain picking up, we head back to the track to put the Acura on jack stands and nerd out. Okay, now, I think the most important fact here, looking at this, is that I've known you for quite a few years, mostly digitally, but we've been friends for quite a while, is that your journey, just like mine, you started with this car bone stock. Correct. I bought it in 06, from technically the second owner. I've just been paving away as I go. So run me through, because we could deep dive way too quickly, run me through what we are looking at. Yeah. So easiest way to start out is this is the factory motor that comes in this car, it's a 94 Integra GSR. So it has a 1.8 liter VTEC motor from the factory. And if you remember back in the nerd, I didn't have one in the 90s, but they were quite a sought after car. So just like every Honda you ever have, this got stolen in 2007 or 8, 2007, the car got stolen. Wait, you're saying your specific car got stolen? This specific car was stolen from me at the mall. Yes. Lo and behold, two days later, I get a call from the cops and they're like, hey, we found your car. And the first thing I said, in how many pieces? Yeah. They got it on the tow truck. I'm like, the motor is still in, the tranny is still in it, the steering column is broken. And, you know, car got told I got $6,000 for the car, bought the car back for $243. And I bought a turbo kit in 2007. I bought a turbo kit and it just started from there. So now that the car is modified or hurt, you could, you could touch it. I can touch it. Yeah. So this revs to about 11,000 right now. And then, which isn't a lot for the Honda world, because you got guys will rev 12,013, right? I've heard of it. I've never done it. Yeah. But I've here, but this actually still retains a factory rocker arm and it still has a three lobe cam. So it idles at like 1100 RPMs and smooth. What do you think was the hardest phase or hardest part of getting to this point? All wheel drive was like the biggest jump I ever made. Like going from front wheel drive to all wheel drive was like, why didn't I do this before? Because it really wasn't available because this engine came all wheel drive in a CRV, but the B series is inherently like, it's not as strong in terms of the drivetrain components factory that like the K series is. And then speed factor had to make a custom bell housing and all that. So my biggest jump for, in terms of smiles for miles spent or money spent was going all wheel drive. Yeah. Cause I mean, I don't think the average person knows that at this power level, it's not a, it's a testament to your ability that it runs. It's not a testament to your ability if it blows up because it's going, I mean, you're pushing the limits. You're pushing the limits. There's no way. There's no, if anyone tells you like I have a rival 1500 horsepower, any car there, they're, they're talking out of their ass. Exactly. There's no way. Like this isn't an if, but when there's a problem and that's just how it happens. So we have been battling rain all day as it would be up here in Washington. And yet still spirits are high. We want to see the car launch. Miles is the most enthusiastic person about it. And while the conditions might not be perfect, like I said, the excitement is. And so realistically, when it comes to rain, you know that you're going to have reduced traction. The car's fired up now and he's going to warm it up, but with the reduced traction is going to come less of a launch. And in fact, it's actually safer because all he's going to do is launch the car. So the car is really not going to go anywhere. So it's going to look amazing, do incredible noises and sounds and wild looking things, but not really do much forward motion. You can already see the rain coming off the tires. Now, there is kind of a dry line that the racers from earlier sessions have set up. But nonetheless, it's not optimal. It just shows you how critical this sort of thing actually is, that when you're at the half mile, you're fighting for every little bit of wheel slip and maximizing it. Well, that's kind of all out the window right here. It's definitely going to be loud. What I want to point out is that he has a two stage clutch system, so he's got a lot of control on that. So I was expecting tons of wheel slip. There really wasn't. His system, the way he's got that thing tuned, that was really impressive. I was expecting way more theatrics. He was here to win a race. Yeah, so interesting enough, the track officials came over because they thought he was roasting the tires. And that's the exact opposite of what's going on here. He's actually setting the car up to not roast the tires because that's a race that's lost. So really interesting that even the track thought that that's what was going on, because it sounds like that. But in fact, the car is trying to adjust and get every bit of traction it can. That is loud. That is very loud. A car that's loud and wild, but you never get used to it. Yeah, something's broken. Miles is at that end of the track and something has happened. We don't know exactly what, but we're about to find out. We probably aren't going to get you a ride now. I think it either broke the final drive or the transfer case, one of the two. So the beginning of this year, I took the transfer case apart and all of them had cracks on it. So I've gotten about 10 more passes on it since then. So it wouldn't surprise me if that's what broke. The sad part is I have all the best stuff. It's just a maintenance item. So I know that 60 launches on this transfer case just isn't, you have to pull it apart before that. That's assuming it's a transfer case. My gut tells me it's a transfer case just how it feels and sounds, but I don't really know. I mean, I got to ride in it and I've been wanting to see this car in person, up close and personal. And that's what we accomplished that year. There's a lot more of nasty stuff to look at with the bumper off. You can kind of see all the catch can in the front, catch can lines. There's a lot more little things that you don't see because it's behind the bumper initially. It was a lot better than I thought, actually. I just assumed second gear would just blow all the tires, but it actually got up and moved. And I was like, okay, we're going to bang another gear here. Yep. Good stuff. When you see a broken car, you think, oh, you know what, something bad happened. But at this level, it's just a race and replace sort of situation. And it was really neat to deep dive into this car because this is one of those cars where he's not in the process of building, he's built, and he's in the process of retooling to do other motorsports. And that's a really cool thing to see because this is an absolute monster, and it's neat to see what he does next with this car and anything else he tries to do. Yes, there is an epilogue to Miles Acker's story. After a marathon session fixing the transfer case, a week later, the Acker was back to turning in single-digit quarter-mile passes, including this one at 7.9 seconds.