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💡Go to to get a 30-day free trial the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual subscription! Thanks to Mike Hand for joining us on this, you can check out his current project here! The Jade Warrior was created by a guy called Angus MacPhail, an engineer who had worked on projects like the GT40. Yeah you heard that right, he was part of the design team behind (probably) the most iconic GT car ever. And he worked with Mike Hand, an extremely skilled machinist. McFail fitted the bike with a huge supercharger and a torque converter to drive the rear wheel. This is something that you would find in a traditional road car, automatic gearbox, not like the other race clutches that other top fuel dragsters were using at the time. It meant that Ag could keep the weight down, and also only use a single gear. But it came with it’s compromises. The way it works is that you have two discs, within an oil. One is attached to the engine and one to the drivetrain. So the engine could idle, with the driven disc spinning and the wheels stationary. But when the revs pick up, the driven disc actually spins the oil so much that it begins to sprin the driven disc - giving you torque to the rear wheels. And at high revs, the discs actually become effectively locked together! This was a simple and light solution - but one that had it’s drawbacks. The Jade Warrior took part in the 'Top Fuel' category, competing with bikes that looked like this. They were able to hit 155mph by the end of the strip and often used two engines, with one in front of the other! They produced between 400 and 500 horsepower and were fitted to specially modified, and much longer, bike chassis'. Now, drag bikes look like this with Larry McBride setting the record of seconds over an eighth-mile and hitting 232mph before deploying the parachutes! ➤Follow Driver61 on: ➤ Instagram- @official_driver61 - ➤TikTok - @official_driver61 - ➤ Follow Scott on: ➤ Twitter - ➤ Instagram - @official_driver61 - #Dragster #DragRacing #DragBike
