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smoke from exhaust when come off throttle from full (or nearly full) boost

As the thread suggest I am getting smoke (I beleive its either silver or white) when I come off throttle when on full boost. The car was purchased from 300zx.co.uk member "3horses" the performance upgrades as far as I know are as follows: - powerflow exhaust, de cat, twin blitz induction kits, manual boost control valve is fitted I beleive its running 0.8 bar but do not have an aftermarket guage to verify this. It has had a recent oil and filter change with the chosen oil spec being 20w / 50 semi synthetic. Also within the last 2 months a new rear main crank seal has been fitted, as have new PCV valves and both rubber pipes. An aftermarket oil pressure guage is fitted and is reading what I would consider normal - rich when cold and around 50psi when driving normally once warmed up. Since I noticed the smoke as described when coming off throttle (this was yesterday) I have started the car this morning and watched the smoke coming out the exhuast on start up which is silver as it should be but I after a few minutes I thought I noticed a blue tinge to it but before I could establish 100% that it was more blue than silver the car had reached temperature and resultantly the smoke stopped coming out. Having thought about it since I can not say for sure that there was any blue in it I think I may just be being paranoid. Basically any advice would be appreciated becuase I know that blue smoke can indicate turbo problems and Id like your thoughts on this and also the smoke when coming off throttle. Cheers.

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This can be quite common with turbo cars, mine certainly does it a little. It's probably a little oil and perhaps some unburnt fuel, especially as you have no cats. I wouldn't worry too much unless it's bad, or gets significantly worse quickly.

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Is it possible that, due to the improvement in the spooling of the turbos gained from the breathing modifications and slight boost increase, that I do actually need to fit a pair of blow off valves and is it in a sense dumping through the exhaust system? I had an MR2 turbo previous to purchasing the zed (I know many of you wouldnt class this as a car in the same class) and I dont recall it happening with that car. My brother, who has an NA but is better mechanically than myself, doesnt see it as a problem and it is he who thinks that fitting the blow off valves will stop it.

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