In an effort focused on safety, drag racing veteran Manny Buginga and Larry Jeffers Race Cars recently debuted a new, state-of-the-art Pro Mod.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are a couple things we wanted to do for about five years here, and Manny\u2019s really big on safety, so he said go ahead and do it,\u201d explained Larry Jeffers.<\/p>\n
Buginga, who has always been a fan of Mustangs, gave the green light to Larry Jeffers Race Cars to construct the Pro Mod that\u2019s now painted in the signature \u201cManny Race Red\u201d paint.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been great friends with Larry for a long time, so we agreed on it,\u201d explained Buginga. \u201cHe had some ideas and wanted to put the flaps on the car, so we just rolled with it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The newly built Pro Line Racing Hemi ProCharged Mustang features innovative modifications that are the first of its kind to be featured on a Pro Mod.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe installed a NASCAR roof lid on it, so if the car gets backwards, the air will actually push down on the car and slow it down \u2013 it will not pressurize the cabin of the car,\u201d explained Jeffers. \u201cA lot of Pro Mod cars, if you notice at the track, they spin around backwards, the air lifts the wing up, and the car wants to flip over, so we installed vents in the back of the car so when air gets up under there it releases it, and hopefully it won\u2019t flip the car.\u201d<\/p>\n
Buginga also pointed out another safety feature.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve seen a lot of Pro Mods get the parachutes tangled up in the wheelie bars, so we added the net,\u201d said Buginga. \u201cWe don\u2019t know if it\u2019s going to work. Hopefully, I never have to find out, but if it works in the right direction, I mean, it can\u2019t hurt.<\/p>\n
\u201cLarry, he\u2019s all for safety and thought these ideas would be great. He came up with most of them, so I think collaboratively it\u2019s time for a little bit of change safety-wise.\u201d<\/p>\n
Buginga plans on testing the car today (Wednesday, January 17) at Bradenton Motorsports Park and if all goes well, debut the car at the Drag Illustrated <\/em>World Series of Pro Mod.<\/p>\n As far as what\u2019s on the docket for the 2024 season, Buginga explained, \u201cWe\u2019re going to do Radial Wars with \u2018Fred,\u2019 the Pro 275 car. We\u2019re going to do some of the outlaw races with the new Pro Mod and then get tested for NHRA and see where we stack up there. We just kind of want to poke our heads in and let them not forget about us.\u201d<\/p>\n And in true Manny Buginga fashion, there are four names up for voting that will eventually be chosen as the new Pro Mod car\u2019s name: Ned, Jed, Ted or Wilma.\u00a0<\/p>\n The post Manny Buginga and Larry Jeffers Race Cars Team Up for State-of-the-Art Pro Mod Build<\/a> first appeared on Drag Illustrated | Drag Racing News, Opinion, Interviews, Photos, Videos and More<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In an effort focused on safety, drag racing veteran Manny Buginga and Larry Jeffers Race Cars recently debuted a new, state-of-the-art Pro Mod.\u00a0 \u201cThere are a couple things we wanted to do for about five years here, and Manny\u2019s really big on safety, so he said go ahead and do it,\u201d explained Larry Jeffers. Buginga, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,78117,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drag-racing","category-race-pages","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91069,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91001\/revisions\/91069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}