If you’ve ever met Terry “Beefcake” Reeves, you know he’s a highly energetic, highly motivated racer. Reeves is everyone’s friend, until the staging lights come on. Then it’s down to business, and Reeves doesn’t hold back anything. You may remember he reset the ET record for a street driven 5.0 Coyote powered car with his blue 2011 Mustang GT during Thursday testing before the NMRA Bradenton, Florida event this past spring with an astounding 8.75 pass.

Unfortunately the new engine combination in Reeves’ car didn’t hold up for long, With a damaged block, it was back to the drawing board for Reeves, who had to run a backup car at the NMRA race in Commerce, Georgia to stay in the points chase.

With the Granatelli 5.0 Shootout at the NMRA event in Norwalk, Ohio on the horizon, Reeves turned to MMR and BES Racing Engines to not only replace his damaged engine, but to also up his game further. It would seem Reeves is not taking any chances this time running a MMR Pro Mod short-block, with a top end assembled by the pros at BES.

Accompanying the new bullet are a host of other modifications that will take Reeves’ GT one step closer to full race car and a few steps further away from the street car it has been. Those modifications include a swap to manual brakes with a Strange Engineering manual brake master cylinder. Reeves has also changed to lightweight Strange discs.. Additional savings in rotating mass come via a switch to Weld  Racing Wheels. There’s also a UPR battery relocate with Flaming River quick disconnect.

“We pulled about 300 pounds out of the car and built a new engine. We gotta be ready for the 5.0 shootout,” says Reeves. There are also some aerodynamic mods that we were sworn to secrecy to not reveal until after they debut at the track. Reeves is also adding some additional power via a Nitrous Outlet nitrous oxide system with billet bottle valve. Larger exhaust is also making it’s way onto the car. No doubt Lund Racing will be providing the tune once again as well.

How fast will the Team Beefcake Racing machine go? We’re not sure, but with 300 pounds out of the car, it should be interesting to see how much further Reeves can push the envelope of street oriented Coyote powered cars.