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If you just want to follow, I've documented it on my own website here: http://www.gwellwood.com/project-cars/the-fiendish-firefly/ If you want to interact, I have a parallel thread here...

Well, while it's ~made~ by Suzuki, this one is officially a "Pontiac Firefly" here in Canada (Suzuki Forsa where you are, I'm sure). I'm just putting a better Pontiac drivetrain in it, so it's still "in the family" (sort of).

Wiring the Pontiac Firebird V8 into the Pontiac Firefly chassis. Slow going. Suzuki and Pontiac don't exactly share philosophies.

Yes. All new hoses made a big difference.

May need to add a rheostat or something to the hookah pot - the shop vac ***** all the water out. Instead, for the time being, I ran the hookah with no water in it, and was pleased to see very little sand in the shop vac. I might just keep it at that. Also planning some tool/holder stuff on...

Yeah - I put my finger over the nozzle, and can blast air down into the hopper, but I just don't get sand coming back up. Took all the sand out and sifted it, but no improvement. Bought a new section of the feed hose anyway, since the old one isn't very pliable any more. I bought that sand...

My 11 year-old brought his metalwork project home, showing off that he used a sand blaster to create the texture. I said "you know, we have a sand blaster out in the shop." He got all excited. I said that it needed some love, and that if helped fix it, he could use it almost any time he...

My truck ('77 C10) will be going Megasquirt with a Holley big-bore TBI unit, adapted to fit the GM Rochester injector pod. When that all works, I will run an older Edelbrock Tunnel Ram, bungs welded for port injectors, with twin Dodge 2-barrel throttle bodies, also with Megasquirt. Probably...

Well, essentially the shop is done. I will be doing the driveway out front and a compressor building out back in the spring. This left me feeling a bit of loss. I've poured so much of my attention into building it, and now it's done, and I didn't know what to do with myself. So I...

And it doesn't leak - Yay! 100psi through the lines, and we're still in one piece. And there was much rejoicing! Did a bit of tidying up. Gotta move my bags of concrete for the spring-time driveway curbing.

The last drop is the drain only.

Fourth leg done. Drain leg clear coat is drying and will be installed next.

Added another leg to the compressed air lines. Still not totally sold on the brushed and clear-coated copper, but I started and might as well finish. I can always paint it wall-colour later. I really didn't plan the placement of this and the make-up air vent very well. Ugh. Two more legs...

I seem to be taking really crappy pictures lately. Or it's the camera. Got wheels put on my ratty old Horizontal Bandsaw. Much easier to tuck out of the way now.

Let the collection of junk begin!

Debating, now, whether I want to paint the lines wall colour or not. The copper made sense at the time.....

Started working on compressed air lines. Copper is scuffed with a green scrubbie, and clear-coated. The intent here is the compressor feeds the rail which is sloped to a drain leg, and all the drops come off the top so moisture is less likely to go down each leg, and each leg has a drain at...

Keep in mind, my dollars are Canadian, and everything is more expensive here - it's not just the difference in exchange rate.

1065 square foot footprint. A tick under 1000sqft inside. 11' walls. 13-1/2' vaulted ceiling.

For the armchair estimators out there, it might be worthwhile mentioning I am $65,000 CDN into this shop. I did almost all the work myself. That also includes: Hoist ($4000) Air compressor ($2200) Ground and polished concrete floor ($3000) Upgraded the service to the house ($2000) Excavation...