About
Pedro Haiduk makes furniture out of engines. Not castings or replicas, but real Ferrari V8s, Porsche flat-sixes and truck turbochargers, stripped to bare metal, rebuilt, wired for light and motion, and set under glass. The business is 4Tempos Motorsport Memories, and it started in 2017 with a turbocharger pulled from one of his father's trucks.
Before that there was a shed. He laid it himself in 2015 out of stone left over from a renovation in his parents' backyard, somewhere to build a mini bike. He trained as a mechanical engineer, spent his childhood riding along to truck workshops with his father, and learned to work with his hands at his grandfather's woodworking bench. You can see his upbringing come through in the pieces he crafts today. We have featured plenty of workshops built by hand and shops where the tools outlast their owners, but this is the first Garage Visit where the engine is the finished object rather than the thing being repaired.
See the current work at 4tempos.com and on Instagram.
Garage Overview
Type: Workshop
Location: Brazil
Size: 645 square feet, up from roughly 100 square feet in the original backyard shop
Time in the space: Almost three years, following six years in the first workshop
Built: The first shop went up in 2015, laid by hand from stone left over from a renovation
Flooring: Concrete
Equipment: Air compressor, welding machine, hand tools, vehicle lift
Engines in the space: Ferrari, McLaren and Porsche. Mostly engines rather than cars.
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Interview
How did you start working with engines?
I spent a lot of time with my grandfather as a child. He worked with wood, and I loved the hands-on part of it, understanding how things went together. I used to take my toys apart just to see inside them. My father was a truck driver, so I traveled across Brazil with him and spent a lot of time in workshops. That is where the mechanical side came from. 4Tempos started as a hobby. I was making wooden furniture first, something I learned from my grandfather, and I built my first workshop in my parents' backyard out of stone left over from a renovation. I still had a turbocharger from one of my father's trucks. In 2017 I turned it into a lamp, posted it in a few Facebook groups, and the orders started coming. Turbo lamps, turbo clocks, connecting rod and piston clocks. Today I give 4Tempos forty hours a day, ten days a week.
When did it stop being a hobby?
When I was laid off. I had already been thinking about going all in. I had finished a few projects I was proud of and met people in the automotive world here and internationally, so I could see there was something real. Losing the job was hard, but it was also the push. From 2024 the company grew quickly and I was able to focus on more complex pieces.
You trained as an engineer, not an artist. How does that shape the work?
The engineering side comes out in the development, manufacturing and assembly. I enjoy comparing the technical solutions different manufacturers arrive at. Right now I have a Ferrari F430 engine and a McLaren 720S engine in the shop, and you can see two very different approaches to power, performance and efficiency sitting side by side. The artistic side is my biggest challenge. Around ninety-five percent of my projects have been built to my own taste. I work minimally, keeping the original components in the foreground and adding only what references the car. It took a long time to understand that, and now it happens instinctively. It has become my signature. I still want to learn more about the art world so I can push the work further without losing what it is.
What does the workshop represent to you beyond a place to work?
A childhood dream. I tried to build a treehouse as a kid and could not, because the tree was not big enough. Building my own workshop was the version of that I could actually finish. The first one, at my parents' house, went up in 2015. I built it to assemble a mini bike, and finishing the bike in a shop I had built myself was the whole thing.
What do you see in these components that other people don't?
It does not matter what condition a part is in. There is always something you can make from it. Taking an engine that was never designed for this and turning it into an object someone lives with is the challenge. These pieces end up sharing rooms with supercars, artwork and serious furniture, so they have to hold up. The first step is always understanding what the client needs and where the piece is going. From there I design something that fits the room and does justice to the component, and I do not cut corners on finishing, paint, or the details that carry it.
Walk us through the process.
I work two ways: a custom commission, or a finished piece I offer. The process is close to identical. First a pre-clean, especially if the engine came out burnt. Then full disassembly and a deep clean of every internal and external component to strip out dirt, oil, grease and oxidation. I work out what else I need to source, prepare everything for paint, and paint it. In parallel I do the technical drawings and fabricate the structures and supports. Then full assembly. Depending on the project I install lighting and automation so the engine runs and you can watch the pistons, valves, camshafts and crankshaft move. Last comes safety and durability testing. Once it passes, it ships.
What has the jump from the first workshop to this one meant to you?
It shows that you can get there through work. It also shows how much it matters to believe in what you are doing. This path is not the easy one, especially when you love the thing you do, because you end up giving it more than you would give anything else. But looking back at the distance covered and imagining what is next is worth a lot. Connecting with people who share the same obsession made the difference. The people who believed in the work early are the reason there was a second workshop at all.
What's next for 4Tempos?
International expansion. We have projects abroad already and we want to go further, which is what the new website is for, along with partnerships with stores, galleries and people in the industry. The goal is to work with more exclusive components, hypercar engines, harder projects. We also want to open new lines using aircraft, motorcycle and boat engines, or any combustion engine at all. Gasoline is our fuel. At the start I never imagined working with engines from Ferrari, McLaren, Porsche or Lamborghini. Now I can see it going much further than that.
