It's all about the TORQUE baby!

When you get into diesels it's a whole different language and mindset. Our new Mk5 Jetta is actually a mid-size car now, quite roomy and a bit on the hefty side, but the 1.9L diesel it has churns out only about 100HP and it scoots like nobody's business. Almost 200 pounds of torque make it happen. Glad I didn't get a red one! Think about it though, that's almost as much torque as our VX but at half the weight.

Best part of course was averaging 49 MPG from this last tank.

A local friend and Golf TDI owner met with me today about pooling our time and resources to get a biodiesel processor assembled. We've both been accumulating components and information for several years so have just about everything we need. I wasn't ever in a rush before as my plan is to grow the source oil where he's more interested in using waste vegetable oil (WVO), but if he'll collect it I'll process it. My older Mercedes will run on straight vegetable oil (SVO) but the newer diesel have to have biodiesel, and we both have PD TDI engines which have even tighter tolerances than previous TDI engines and also run higher fuel pressures.