John Shep?
 

Has anybody seen anything from him lately? He didn't race the talon last season at all...

Re: John Shep?
 

Thats because someone took A LOT longer on his chassis than he expected. From what I have heard is he has it back and hopefully we'll see him next season.

Re: John Shep?
 

Yea, the talon was STILL getting worked on, but he's getting back on it. He also has a jeep he's supercharging, his red evo he's messin around with, and some other stuff.

-A. Swift

Re: John Shep?
 

Yeah i say a thread awhile back on the link forums where shep and sherer were talking about the new build and why he is going the route he is. Cant wait to see the new build. Basically what it boiled down to is the talon was beginning to scare the shit out of him and being that he has a family he needed to work on the safety of it.

Re: John Shep?
 

25.1 chassis I would assume.

~John

Re: John Shep?
 

yea it says on his site that he was working on the safty factor of the car. the cage and everything he had wasn't really adiquit for the speeds he was reaching

Re: John Shep?
 

Yeah you could see in some of the last in-car videos of his that the car was a handful even at the top end. The video of him against the black mustang, the Talon's rear skated around up at the top end of the track. It would be going against every nerve in my body to let off the power with the back-end of the car dancing around, but he doesn't flinch.

When cars get into that rarefied ground that the Shep Talon pushes into, they hit a real wall. Up to that point it's just make it faster and faster. This "wall" is a chassis or "platform wall". I know that Reece McGregor said that wall was hit with his Skyline at 7.59@190. Could that car make more power? Oh yeah, could it put it down safely? Not every time, probably not even most of the time. He said that he wouldn't want to run it again at that power level with out an increase in wheelbase. I'm not saying that Shep is stuck where he is, I'm saying that things have to change to overcome that wall. Even the might HKS has put their Drag GT-R to rest saying that it wasn't safe at it's record power level.

I'm sure Shep will be back and faster than ever, at least I really really hope he comes back, and soon.