Back in Action 07/23/2010
 
Dear clients, friends and fan's!

I have returned from 1.5 month long vacation! It was very relaxing. I also decided to take a short sebatical due to a accident that had taken place ( not my fault! ) It sadly was a honestly accident, I was at a light and a in-experinced yound driver had made error and did not stop. Sorry for clients who had high hope's of me returning to Japan sooner.

Not to fret, my vehicle is repairable and I being a perfectionist will tear down the vehicle to the bare chassi. 

Presently, we have no further updates to elaborate on. 
Best to all! 

M.Shahpouri
  
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Post Title. 05/31/2010
 
Dear customers, currently we are not accepting engine builds for the next two months, we will tune, bespoke and offer aero packages. However at present we ask that you FAX or Email us if you wish to have engine work completed. Thanks! 

mshahpouri@dtmdreamworks.net  

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Back into Action 05/17/2010
 
Sorry to anyone who had sent messages as I have been out of the office on a personal holiday. Currently I will again be out of the office away in the North of California on company business.
Our PC/Network is back online so we are now able to recieve and send out messages. For any questions please call
1-760-406-1963 or email at Mshahpouri@dtmdreamworks.net
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Update 05/03/2010
 
Sorry I have not had much time to update at this time.
So be paciant. =)
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NEWS & UPDATES 04/11/2010
 
So here it is folks what you all have been waiting for is soon to arrive ( fashionably late ofcourse! )

Currently we're expanding and much excitement is just around the corner with Summer hitting our door steps and the firms Magazine " Automotive & Engineering Life Style " emphasized as well as another Magazine which will be issued come late Summer which will be focusing on the finer things in life and ofcourse will be doing guest interviews and discussing a verity of subjects for " Afluent Mens & Women alike! " 

Everything from Fashion, Lifestyle, Business, etc will have it coverd. This magazine will upon it's inception be multi media based and interactive via Online Magazine.

Other news : I have had some questions about DTM dreamworks and what we can provide. Some have asked why we don't provide all of our solutions on our website etc.

So here are some quick Q & A's for those who have asked.

A. One of the reasions why we do not provide all of our products on our website is to partly protect our creative rights and customers. In some cases we are under contract and not capable of disclosing past developements or solutions carried out for customers past or present.

B. One of Mr. Shahpouri's points is that each customer is a individual, thus it does not make sense to provide cookie cutter technologies to or for the masses. And since Mr. Shahpouri is extremely emphasized on purely quality over masss production items it would not be pragmatic to list a slew of products that might not be applicable.

C. I sent a email, but I never recieved a response or my third email was ignored? Mr. Shahpouri is very strict about prospective clients. You must first establish a working relationship. 

In general it is our view as well most common that a serious prospective client will call, and if you are serious should call and establish an apointment or teleconference.

Note : We take you as seriously as you take us, We respect you and you're time, please do the same. 

Side Note : As well we are the specialist. There for it is advisable you listen to us, not work against us. This also will increase the chance that you are accepted as a client.

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Recently I had a talk with a good friend, and he asked a interesting question. What is or rather what makes a car good?
Most people would have shot of their first and or most near and dear exotic. Enzo, F40, Lamborghini, Carerra GT, Porsche 911 Turbo. Ok so you get my point right? Wrong! Often I think
the automotive world get's this very very wrong especially in a lot of magazines.

Is say a 2010 BMW 335i better then say a 1999 Porsche boxter, or is a Porsche 996 better then a 911 T or let us even go into vehicular blasphamy and discuss a Toyota Starlet vs 2010 Nissan GTR. Let us for good measure throw in a 1968 Mustang.

I think we have to take a look into the total driving experince.
" What makes an excellent race car does not always make an excellent or good car for the road. " I think many people miss understand this.


I think a lot of car owners sort of fall victim to the heat of the moment in their decision making. 

A lot of this is 50% trend of the moment powerd by a overwhelming need to asert ones own status. 25% common sense and 25% purity. A lot of time as we age nestalgia comes into play too, at least as a factor. I watch it happen everyday.

For exsample, present trends amongest youth's are really status and performance oriented. A lot of people today wish to see or view themself as sophsticated and knowledgible. 

For exsample if we whent back and looked at particular cars like say a GTR not a Skyline GTR but a Nissan R35 GTR, in terms of all it's electronics and wizardy it's a truely amazing peice of todays state of the art tech. However in terms of excitement and being timeless it will fade.

When we look for exsample at vehicles past such as the R32 or R34 we see that many critics will advocate that the previous Skyline GTR's were exciting and gave a emotional feeling even if not superior to the present R35 GTR. 

So what happend? 

If we look look at the past Toyota Corolla's for exsample. What sparked the cult classic's that bring so many together?
The rawness and excitement and feeling the brings to it's owner? Perhaps.

One of the biggest issues is infact that automotive manufactuors are more focused on cramming competitive new technologies into a vehicle that far exceed what the daily or average driver really need. They add overly innovative technologies that complicate the process of driving and or make a vehicle feel borning and dull. Or give a driver a false sense of security.
 

So how do we move foward with out holding back technologies and enable designers to be innovative but keep satisfaction alive and well.

One of the most important things is knowing where to add the technologies. Econ, Performance and so on all really need to be addressed more clearly. Today I think makers try to target to many areas of a vast and competitive market. 

Anyways this is just some food for thought.
 
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Currently I have been reading a lot of amusing articals and
listening to that in which people think they need in terms of tuning.
Sometimes I am a little suprised at what I hear or read.

1. Avoid the trends.
2. Spend money where it is best suited.
3. Don't add ancelary items unless they are needed.

4. Gauges : Exhaust Gas Temp, Air Fuel Ratio, Knock Sensor or
Knock sensors are nice, not 100% needed. The problem is most
of these are ancelary devices in which do not work together or
better said in conjunction. All great, accept for the fact that most
modern management systems in production vehicles have 
integrated systems. Thus the management is capable of deciding
how much spark, cam timing, etc it want's to give at a specific rpm.
So monitoring is almost pointless unless you are extremely tuned
then again if you are tuned correctly you really don't need such
gauges unless you are running dangeriously. 

For turbochargers a boost gauge, oil temp and coolent temp gauge
are acceptable.

Most of the cars I see out there with a million gauges are not 
even tuned correctly or are the gauges installed correctly and or 
are the vehicles in question ( powerful enough. )

The problem is that a lot of the newest management systems
are extremely dynamic and most of what I am seeing and why
so many blown engines are showing up is due to DYI combined
with the ( tuner band wagon. ) Everyones a tuner now, just like
everyone is a was a Drifter post 2004.5. OEM Automakers 
spend thousends of hours and ( A LOT OF MONEY. ) on researching
and developing management and parameters for production cars.
Most tuners spend much less. Often TOP Pro race teams spend
hours upon hours and usually sacrifices a few engines in dyno
testing to produce a racer. Also they run some of the most 
sophisticated management and are religiously inspected. 

Management Systems in production vehicles are not come one 
come all and the same. Different years in the same generation
can have updated or new software or significant differences 
in the way systems communicate. Developement of products and
parts are very important. Often times you are trusting that the
tuner has spent the time in research and developement for 
you're vehicle to
  

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Fundamentum 03/13/2010
 
About racing.

Currently I have had some questions from aspiring young would be future drivers. Today racing is a lot more then just about being a driver but the vast or so to speak " big picture " is very important in driver development.

My first bit of advise to anyone who is an aspiring driver it is that at no time ever should you give up you're dreams.
Giving up you're dreams equates you dying inside. However we need to be very real about a few things. Hope is good, but
it does not get the job done in terms of paying bills, and so on.

You need target objectives and structure in order to be succeed in you're ambitions. Nobody can say 100% at what level or for how long you will race but the average racing
drivers career life span is not exactly very long. So make
the time you are racing count.

Another fatal mistake many young or aspiring drivers make
is going to big too soon. Arriving a bit fashionably late is acceptable. Age does not equate Old and slow, just as Young does not equate fast and vibrant.

Racing does cost a lot of money and one must really consider the consequences for his or her actions. Often times when a individual goes to big too fast they end up hurting them self
economically and even as far as destroying family's.

I never recommend someone risking their future for racing.
Risk is fine, but a calculated risk key. Reckless and stupid well there friends is a whole-other discussion. One in which is
self explaining.

1. Getting a College Education. Do not settle for a trade school or simply a two year. A four year education pays for itself, racing or not. It also gives you more credit when conversing with team mates or a firm sponsors etc. ( Note : Chose something that is world applicable, not a easy A major. )

2. Working you're way up from the bottom breeds strength.
You are entitled to nothing, but with hard work you might
gain that in which you desire most. Listen to those who are willing to speak.

3. Keep you're contacts.

4. Keep you're word.

5. Be truthful, the racing world is small and liars etc. It is very
easy to burn bridges with great ease.

6. Keep Business as Business and Friendships as Friendships
do not mix the two. You'll save you're self a whole lot of heart
ache and trouble this way.

7. Alcoholism, Drug Addiction are paths in which will draw
you way from you're goal. Avoid both. Smoking will not help you're performance but it's you're own vice.

8. The Law : The law is something I suggest you do not abuse.
A lot of young people do like the idea of street racing. I don't
recommend it. 1. Any of the major governing bodies can and
will penalize you for such acts, DUI's, Reckless Driving, Racing
on the street, etc. All of which depending on the series and so
on can result in disqualifications, loss of sponsors or future
sponsors. Pretty much if you lose you're Civilian street license
you're racing license is no longer valid under most situations.

9. Getting a lot of speeding tickets, does two things. A. It raises your insurance sky high and B. Also can render you jobless in the automotive field. Shop owners insurance and or liability for a dealer etc will be too high to keep you staffed. So you won't be behind the for a good long while.

10. Practice, and Practice more. But remember to enjoy it.

M.
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Owning such vehicles is something that should  be thought about. Often I have seen people fall pray or heck even victimized by the allure of an exotic or classic or collectors car.

Prospect Ferrari owner? One should consider what their expectations of Ferrari owner ship are and should be for them. Often times I see so many disappointed owners or owners that made emotional decisions and end up with cars that drove
home and spent more time in need of massive mechanical work.

1. One problem I see all to often is owners who spend 10,000-75,000 on a classic or exotic and they end up with a car that really needs to 15,000-50,000 in total over all work.

This easily can sour a first time buyers relationship. 1970's & early 1990's prospect owners should think about some important facts.

This goes for anything Classic and or Exotic, exclusive means limited and often times this means a lack of OEM equipment available. Also repairs and up keep! Often early car owners seem to forget that major overhauls on such cars like Ferrari, Porsche, Lamborghini often require the engine to be dropped for servicing. The parts and labor are never cheap. Often times the dealer is not always capable of servicing Classics.

2. Myths! There is no such thing as a cheap exotic sports car or classic. Get this out of you're head.

With classic cars some of the issues are more due to sourcing parts and keeping things functional and original, for example it is possible to find a Ferrari 308 GTS for 25-37,000. And a Porsche 911sc for 10,500 - 20,000. However the parts are very much still Ferrari and Porsche. This means you will spend Ferrari and Porsche prices for factory original goods, and sometimes you have to use factory original parts.

Need a engine? expect no less then 15,000 and beyond, especially if we are talking factory original or even factory specification. Sometimes some of the parts are not capable of being re used.

Servicing Bosch mechanical fuel injection or Jetronic systems are not exactly cheap. Another problem are emissions and if you are from California is strict about modernized EFI systems and laws are also expanding, ie they change like the wind.

3. Value, Value is a very amusing thing to me. There are a few things to watch out for. Millage can dictate a vehicles price.
But don't always be fooled by millage. ( especially Porsches ) I find cars with a bit of millage on them tend preform much more reliable. This is due to the nature of the flat six design.
When these engines sit for great lengths of time the engines can rot away like a sand castle at the beach as the tide comes in. Ferrari's too!

Specialty cars : Replicas, Tuned, Restored, Cars with
notority etc These can increase the value of a car depending. The quality should exceed that of OEM factory quality. Documentation is absolute.

Race Cars : There is a big difference between a car that was in a GP event and a car that was a Club Race. Race cars are great but you need to expect that these will cost and to keep them original and healthy is not cheap.

Media and Low Balling : The media and market like to attack
numbers. Sure numbers do equate exclusive, but this does not always equate cheap if the production numbers were more. Grade is a small factor but we really should consider what the inflation. People often over look this, value should be matched.
Although it's a neat little trick that the media and market likes to pull on you. If we took 1970-1980's market prices and calculated the inflation of today we would see that these cars actually held or hold a common value and when new were infact identical if not more then Ferrari's or Porsche's of today.

Another issue is that there has been a trend designed into our marketing system of when a new generation is introduced the values of previous generations tend to decrease. This is true but often excessive.

Performance has been in late the recent establishment for sometimes the arguement in value. The validity is often wrong in logic.

Again the market also in the end really comes down to what people are willing to pay, but this is even flawed as missinformation is quite frequent in the automotive industrey.
And popularity and fads are always in and out of fashion.

Mick-

PS, much of the information and things to think about can
be applied to cul



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Today we live in a world of specialty vehicles. Some exsample of these would be Type R, GT3, Evolution, STi, M3, etc These are basicly premium specialty machines designed to be track weekend specialtys.

However in subsequent generations we have seen Automobile makers fall victim to extreme changes and the consequences for their actions.

I feel that a great many American, Japanese, European automobile makers have fallen victim to losing their originalty. Much like how socitey is so busy copying one another to keep up with the trends. Imulation is truely amazing, and it has even been said that imitation is the truest form of flattery. Is it? I think it was originally in the past, although today markets, media have gone one step too far.

You see this especially in Automobile Subcultures, image, status, trends are always in transition. For the better or Worser?

Markets were clear and cut in previous years. It's a real nasty double edge sword.

1. During the 1990's the idea of selling a 18 year old a 40-80K car was rediculious.

2. Excusivity? Whats that, during the dawn of the DC2 Type R you wouldt of found johnny fresh out of high school running around in a DC2 Type R, and certantly not an NSX at that.

3. Another reality is credit! The idea of credit was an intresting thing when it was reasionable, but when you're income is top's 25,000 and you are driving around in a car that exceeds you're anual income by three times! How does that one work, you tell me? 

4. People today, especially younger generations have absolutly no shame. What was once socially taboo is no longer. This due to the image of having money, people are so desperate, and status trends are shifting which creates social pressure for many youths. materialisim at it's finest!

5. Vehicles from the past were special, limited and had reasion.
They shared a common DNA with predecesors. The 911 had special models RS, scRS, Carerra, SC, GT, GT-S, SS, GT-R, Evolution, you name it. But all of these variants had been developed off what the factory could extract from a production based vehicle, vs that of say the present 997 GT3 or GTR which are soul bred machines. 20 years ago a Carerra was nothing to be sneared at! Most don't even understand that Carerra means race in latin and or SC stands for Super Carerra. People today see a Porsche Carerra S 997 go by and say " oh it's only a Carerra S, not a GT3. " Do we have a problem absolutly! 

We are consumbed to much by the status, and not total quality of a vehicle, only figures, coffee shop bragging rights a

 

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