Single turbo - guaranteed MOT fail?

[luckyNot]

Hi,

I recently converted to single turbo on the advice of a UK tuner. The main reason being my stock twins had issues and they are "getting hard to find. The single should be more reliable"

A mechanic has just informed me that my car will fail UK MOT emissions test in current form. It also smells like an open can of petrol.

A different tuner told me that the single turbo basically bypasses a bunch of emissions stuff on the Apexi ECU and so failure is near certain.

Does anyone have a solution please? 

[Eccentric shaft]

Hello,

Sorry to hear about your turbo troubles. While those in-the-turbo-know have a think, could I ask if it would be possible to have the original turbos reconditioned? There are a few good specialists about that could rebuild them for you if they aren't too far gone.

[lennycarloff]

you don't have to removed the air pump and the cat  just because you have gone single turbo, if folks have, most people have a friendly mot garage that understand they only use there cars on summer weekends. if your car is over fueling that bad you should have a chat with your tuner, the delights of a rotary.

[luckyNot]

Alas the time where I could change my mind on the twins has long past (and has a very long story).

Airpump gone, racing cat going back on, but the 'new' tuner is not optimistic.

Friendly garage does seem to be the ask 

[clive]

If its a 1991 car you should just need a visual check.
I seem to remember this applies to a 92 as well