Ralphi Santos Time Attack S13

Race Drivers, Show Stoppers

From the very beginning Ralphi was first introduced to me, I found him to be very animated. At a young age Ralphi Santos was known not only for his sports ability especially in soccer but also in the car scene. In the out comes of his life, he came across an S13 that was picked up from one of his neighbors (an old lady) that had no use of the car but to his dismay, it turned out to be an automatic. Sure enough after purchasing the s13 he found him self bored with in 4 days of having the car and decided to do the engine swap to an Sr20Det along with it’s transmission.

So his venture continues after doing his motor swap, but again the Brazilian Driver was bored once again. At this point he decides to do an engine overhaul
and begins his project by doing a hot tanked r&rd squaredecked and port and polished, with new nissan oem headgasket and head studs. The lines where also changed to Taka oil and coolant lines.

After finishing his engine haul, he also did his suspension setup. One of his great upgrades that I believe were good and simple was that he changed or rather kept was his brake booster from and automatic as oppose to his manual set up. While doing this, he also upgraded his Coil Overs to D2 Suspension and a 300zx front and rear Calipers with Brembo Rotors. Keeping in it still fresh and clean he adds a nice set of wheels from volk ce-28n 17×8 +25 17×9+35 and to keep him self to the ground a kumho ecsta tires and to keep his wheels on a set of Rays alluminum lug nuts (Blue). Last but not least he gets his whole car painted in “Arctic Gray”.

Be on the look out for this 1st place Time Attack Driver “Ralphi Santos” because I’m sure enough you’ll be seeing his rear bumper from your cock pit.

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