Nathael Jimenez's Drift Charmant

Most of you have seen this one. A dude named Wilkin sent me an email a few days ago informing that he has a Charmant project in his homeland Dominican Republic. One click on the link he gave me and i'm taken to a very familiar looking facebook page. Yes, this is that green Charmant on Facebook you've been "Like"-ing hundreds of times.

Based on what i gather from the Facebook page, Nathael Jimenez regularly drive this on Dominican Republic drift competitions, gymkhanas, auto-x and won some of them too. Seems like this monster's packing lots of fun.

As far as specs go, Wilkin didn't tell me much so i can only tell you as much as i can gather from his page. Under the bonnet of this Charmant is the super strong 4A-GZE. It seems that it was a good decision as the pics mostly showed Nathael working in his Charmant, not on it. A sign that this engine is able to take anything he throws at.

He's running the stock ECU paired with Apex'i SAFC for that much needed extra ooomph for drifting. The torque produced on the crank is then transferred to a short-shift T50 box by a three-puck TRD clutch set before finally reaching an AE86 GTS LSD rearend supported by a pair of short stroke TRD blues.

Here is Nathael's office cubicle.

By the looks of it, this is his daily driver too since he still has a working audio system. Nothing beats a simple yet efficient dashboard that doesn't get in the way when you're busy keeping that drift angle.

I'm a bit lost in translation though. If i'm not mistaken, Wilkin is a mechanic for the workshop working on Nathael's Charmant while Nathael is a member of CDCD which stands for Club Dominicano Corredores de Drift. The shop is called Frodo Garage and Wilkin also told me that this Charmant is now running a Red Top SR20DET. Did i get this right, Wilkin?

Aching to see Nathael and his Charmant in action? Other than this video of him i featured last December, here's another one i found on Youtube.

This car is still running strong and you can bet that we will see more of this beauty!