The Mule spotted at Thunderhill this weekend

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Originally Posted by streetfytr68

Un--freakin--real! It would be nice to hear some lap times as compared to other cars like the GT3 or even the V-twizzy Benz. I've driven an SL65 and those cars accelerate faster than my synapse-challenged brain can process data. I can only imagine how the Mule runs. Can you guesstimate the output at 8lbs of boost?

I can't wait for the conspiracy theorists to chime in: "That car? No way! It's too expensive. Ain't no way it made it saw track time. The pix must be photochopped."

Thank you for the pix.

p.s. Frank, when you grow up it's better to be Stielow. He still gets to enjoy the Mule without having to wait on line at the D.M.V.

Couldn't compare that day as there was always a lot of cars on the track at the same time. He never got a single clean lap in either car. The GT-3 could not come close to keeping up with the Benz, and would not have hung with the Mule either as they were pretty close on overall lap times.

The turn we hit at 100 mph and 1 G lateral with the Mule we hit at 104 mph in the Benz. Even with stability turned off the car still retains some of the controls and definitely let us know it wasn't going to go faster through that turn. It was grabbing some brakes, etc. and you could feel it adjust to make sure the car stayed on track. Mark and I looked at each other and said that's as fast as it's gonna go here. The Mule may have been able to equal or best that speed on that turn as it felt like there was a bit more in it. But it made it effortlessly with no fuss, so no reason to push it to 10/10ths.

My butt-dyno of the Mule at 8 psi is about 700-750 HP. It flew at that boost but wasn't spinning the tires up high like it did at 12 psi. At 12 psi when you nailed it the car got "pissed off". Quite a thrill.

With the way Mark was all over the other cars through the turns with the two street cars and street rubber, it would have really been embarrassing if the cars had race rubber like most the other cars. The guy can drive.

Jody