New The Widowmaker Publish 7

In 1973 the Guinness Book of World Records awarded EJ Potter’s V8 Dragbike “Widowmaker 7” the coveted championship of “World’s Fastest Motorcycle”, lastly making official what many inward America already knew when they dubbed him the “Michigan Madman“.

There was zero Potter wouldn’t practise to become faster – including removing his clutch solely because he was losing likewise much ability due to it slipping. He’d built the clutch from a Harley-Davidson drum brake, as well as although he’d tried to larn inward equally rigid equally possible, it merely couldn’t handgrip the 500+bhp Chevrolet V8.

Widowmaker vii is fitted alongside a stressed-member Chevrolet small-block 350 cubic inch (5.7 litre) V8 alongside Crane gear-driven roller cams as well as rockers, Brodix aluminium heads, 12.5:1 forged pistons, a 1960s Vertex Len Hughes-built magneto, as well as Kinsler-rebuilt Hilborn fuel injection.