The World's Most INSANE Dragster
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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.
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