Beyond the 200 Club

Roger Parker is a former policeman whose technical skill and wide experience of MGs form the backbone of our own Technical Q&A pages.

Last month I mentioned the sky rocketing theft of car catalysts due to the very high value that applies to the catalytic materials inside them. As a postscript to that discussion a school friend of my son Matt works for a metal recycling company that specialises in recycling car cats. Purely coincidentally to my discussion on the subject, he contacted Matt to see if we had any old cats lying around that could be recycled. Of course the cat on the TF Turbo project (originally a 2003 TF 135) that we replaced last month with the home-made 200-cell sports cat fitted that bill, plus there was another very