We touched on a variety of onboard air systems last month (“Haul-Along Huffers,” Mar. ’14), and this month we show you a new version of an old reliable system, the engine-driven compressor.

Along with a TIG welder and mechanical ingenuity bordering on genius-level, all of which come to bear on this fridge compressor to four-stroke engine build. The video posted by [Let’s Learn ...

Got an old air conditioning compressor lying around? And some engineering skills? Why not turn that thing into a real, working internal combustion engine? That's what one YouTuber did, and the ...

We like this one because it has a real Junkyard Wars feel to it: turning a cast-off fridge compressor into a two-stroke internal combustion engine. [Makerj101] is doing this with tooling no more ...

United Technologies Corp., which is doubling down on aviation, has installed a $40 million test center in East Hartford to put engine compressors through their paces with the goal of improving the ...