HJS is the best brand for catalytic converters in Germany. Their ceramic catalytic converters are fitted as original equipment on most normal cars. Their metal catalytic converters are leading in racing. My suggestion for the 300 cell metal cat from Brain was only if you want to make sure everything runs smoothly at MOT. Brain from Milan is owned by HJS and has the same quality standards. All the best with your 200 cell cat from HJS.
It is also relevant that you already have a price for the HJS cat. You would have to import the Brain cat yourself and then there is all the hassle of customs, freight, import sales tax, etc.
Thanks Heinz, and Happy New Year to you
I concede I'm taking a risk in choosing a 200 cell cat, but I've tried to mitigate these risks by choosing a quality German made catalyst.
I have to confess to being a bit of a Germanophile, and especially when it comes to automotive products, domestic appliances and even now my E-Bike. I've already been quite vocal on these pages about my appreciation of Bilstein suspension and I make no excuses for that, don't get me wrong I want to support small British companies like AVO, Spax, Gaz and Protech but my experience is Bilstein simply produces a product that's lightyears better in performance and ultimately the value for money it delivers.
I very much consider myself as a patriot, afterall being British is hard wired into my identity which is perhaps why all my hobby cars have been from my native soil, a succession of MGs, Triumphs, TVRs, an Aston Martin and now a Morgan are all proof of that.
However, during the 1960s and 70s sadly the British motor industry very much rested on its laurels, and because the product quality and innovation just wasn't there those laurels weren't anywhere near solid enough to rest on. Before he moved to Audi and later to Toyoya/Lexus I remember my father's last British company car in the early 1970s, a Triumph 2500 PI saloon that was the best our motor industry had to offer at the time. Yes it had fuel injection which was very innovative, but in typical British Leyland cost cutting fashion instead of designing and manufacturing a dedicated high pressure fuel pump the injection system demanded, Triumph went to Lucas who pulled an old wiper motor off the shelf and adapted it, in doing so they baked early failure into every TR6 and 2500 PI that rolled off the production line
Meanwhile over in Germany Bosch had long since drawn on their early experience with Diesel injection having adapted it for spark ignition engines in the 1930's as used to great effect on the ME 109, that later gave birth to the mechanical direct injection system found on the Mercedes 300 SL. By the 1960's Bosch were already so far ahead of the game the embarrassingly poor fuel injection developments made by Lucas must have seemed like a joke to the German engineers, when electronic fuel injection came along Bosch knew they needed to design a dedicated high pressure fuel pump and heat management was going to be the challenge, so they came up with the brilliant self cooling flooded pump and the rest is history.
I can only imagine how the engineers at Bosch must have laughed when they saw that Lucas were using an old wiper motor for the same job
, ultimately by setting the bar so incredibly low it was almost like us Brits intentionally opened to door to the Japanese and Germans to take and share our top global car maker crown, perhaps the plan was always to move our nation away from manufacturing replacing it with money lending and a well developed service industry
Anyway, I digress, it looks like more German parts will be fitted to Monty..... but only because they're the best!
