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MBE a Consistent Part of PDRA Success Stories

PITTSBORO, NC – In professional categories across all series in drag racing, top teams choose MBE Cylinder Heads PDRA Logoand Manifolds. Owner Matt Bieneman and his team make the choice easy with performance gains that can’t be denied. The company’s continued innovations have led to gains for teams in PDRA Pro Extreme and Pro Boost, along NHRA Pro Stock, Funny Car and Top Fuel that are almost unheard of in drag racing. MBE’s latest innovation gave current customers an additional 2.5 MPH, while new customers are seeing a pick up of 5-7 MPH over competitor’s cylinder heads. These gains are huge in an industry where it can often be difficult to see even slight advantages over the competition.

In PDRA’s short timespan thus far, MBE customers have racked up an astounding amount of wins, records, and quickest and fastest runs. MBE cylinder heads was represented in a final at eight of the nine PDRA events in 2015 and also helped score number one qualifying spots at eight events. Last year MBE customer Brandon Snider set the Pro Extreme E.T. record at a 3.512 at the PDRA Finals in Richmond on his way to a runner up finish. This record held until the first event of 2016 when Snider reset his own record with a 3.48 effort at nearly 221 MPH.

“We have a new design on Brandon Snider’s car,” told Bieneman. “Over our existing design it was worth over 2.5 mile an hour. It doesn’t matter if it’s a supercharged application or a turbo application. The same stuff was on Anthony DiSomma’s car. Terry Leggett is switching to the new design this year also. Most of our customers will pick up 5-7 mile an hour when they switch from a competitor.”

MBE customer and Pro Open Outlaw World Champion Jody Stroud holds the POO elapsed time record at 3.65 and Anthony DiSomma holds the Pro Boost MPH record at 213.

Despite MBE’s considerable performance advantage and its success with customers like Snider and DiSomma in PDRA and Jack Beckman and Antron Brown in NHRA, the company Bieneman started himself in 1997 has only seven employees.

Bieneman says the key to MBE’s success comes from developing his skills at a young age and learning from some of the best in the business. He has taken MBE from a one-man-band to seven full time employees working in a shop that produces cylinder heads and manifolds for all applications.

“We are very proud of our accomplishments and will continue to revolutionize cylinder head technology. We have really good people,” Bieneman said of his team at MBE. “Three of us were in charge of cylinder head departments at Cup shops and one was a head engine builder. We’re very, very fortunate to have these people. We do all these projects together and that’s what makes us better.”

MBE is currently working on a new head design specifically for Alcohol/Pro Mod application, and also plans to debut a new billet LS cylinder head in about three months and a billet small block Chevy with 4.500 bore space a month after that.

Ever a forward-thinker, Bieneman says the PDRA offers a special appeal to him due to its “no rules” format. “The PDRA is full of a group of racers that just want to get better all the time,” emphasized Bieneman. “They don’t want rules so they can be stagnant. We try to explain to people there’s never been a rule that has saved a racer money. If they can name it, I’d like to hear it. That just does not exist. What happens is when they make these rules, the people with the most money will definitely win because they’ve got the finances to refine things better than the others.

“The rules separate everybody. It doesn’t matter if it’s Pro Stock or what it is. That’s what happens. The PDRA is growing. Right now is a great opportunity for them. The biggest thing [for Pro Mod classes to keep moving forward] is not to add rules. The rules only favor the people with the most money. The electronic fuel injection is in the infant stages. I think it will become really important in the next three years as it makes the engines more efficient. Between cylinder head technology and fuel injection those will be the biggest gains in the next three years in Pro Mod classes.”

MBE will post PDRA contingency for their cylinder heads in Pro Extreme, Pro Boost, Pro Nitrous, Top Sportsman and Top Dragster this season. Bieneman plans to attend the majority of PDRA events this season and will be at the Spring Nationals at Rockingham Dragway this upcoming weekend, April 7-9.

The full line of MBE products, as well as a tour of the Mooresville, N.C. based shop, can be found on the company’s website: http://www.mbellc.com/.

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