Brian McLaughlin's "grease car" Jetta
Though Brian doesn’t actually live in Yamhill County, his car spends a lot of time in Newberg. And since his car runs on vegetable oil that he scrounges from Newberg businesses, I figured he’d be a great interview. Brian tells us about his VW Jetta TDI that he’s converted to run on recycled vegetable oil. He also gives a tour of his oil filtration system.
Running time: 7 minutes, 42 seconds
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Very Cool! Makes me want to get a TDI. Although I’m not sure the landlord would appreciate me cooking up vegetable oil in out apartment. Anyone watch Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe on the Discovery Channel? He did a piece on “bio-diesel man” – this guy in Bellingham, WA that collected used cooking oil from local restaurants. His process was quite a bit more involved then Brian’s. I wonder why? Also the bio-diesel man on didn’t do any conversions on his diesel cars – just poured the stuff in and drove. I guess More Processing = Less Car Converting. Who knows… Anyway, great video. Thanks!
This is too neat! I’ve been casually investigating alternative means of fuel, including water. But, frying grease as a fuel seems to be less complex and manageable. Thanks for the video.
DEAR BRIAN: THIS IS ‘09 BUT I HOPE YOU’RE STILL AVAILABLE. CAN A REGULAR ENGINE RUN ON VEGETABLE OIL? AND TOO, I’VE SEEN GUYS WHO PROCESS THEIR OIL MORE THAN YOU. YOUR’S SEEMS TO BE JUST HEATED UP TO GET THE IMPURITIES OUT. THEN YOU DEPEND ON YOUR FILTERS. TRUE? THANKS KEN—–INDIANA