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I have an R32 GTS4 with an RB20DET w a VG30 turbo exhaust intercooler - chipped computer and Apexi SAFC.

When I peg the car and it comes on boost (about 4,500) I get a cloud of brown smoke. What is this - I thought that black / grey would be fuel and blue would be busted rings - but brown???

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No i don't think that this can have anything to do with your headgasket... head gaskets blow white smoke.... or the make steam!

Check your timing and your fuel mixture... anything from gray to black is USUALLY related to running rich and your timing is firing early (or your timing is retarded, not stupid but made to fire early) Brown fits the disctiption of really early detonation.

go to your local skyline shop (in canada no one knows what to do with a RHD car so they freeze that is why i say skyline shop) and get that checked out.

post again let me know what happends

my car does the same,

because i just installed the boost controller,

and when it on boost, alot of black or brownish cloud of smoke, and smell of fuel,

I thought it could be O2 sensor.

Most probly its runing rich.

Off topic: is after market boost controller is illegal?

i got defect for it?

now I know, I gona hide it now. :P

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