I was tearing around the other day on some backroads and after turning a corner I hammered it down. Right before shifting from 2nd to 3rd I saw white smoke come out the exhaust. I immediately let off and it stopped and I'm unable to get it to do it again. I did seafoam the car a month ago, surely it couldn't have been seafoam or a carbon buildup breaking off? Note I haven't had the opportunity to be WOT and go from 2-3 again, but I have been WOT all the way up to 65mph, I can go test again and let her get all the way into 3rd and see if the smoke occurs again.

Edit: Turns out I have a broken valve spring, it started ticking pretty loudly yesterday

 

I got the car into a shop and its nothing with the valve train at all. I broke a flexplate. The SOB ate its housing up as well and is gonna be $2000 to fix altogether. Here are some horror pictures
http://imgur.com/6fya8gR
http://imgur.com/hVYyVXb
http://imgur.com/7y0s5Sq

Poor monte is gonna have to be good the rest of the year or I'm afraid I'm going to have to let her go
(also anyone know how I can make those damn pictures smaller)

 

That is sad news!

The pics are not showing.

 

Sorry for your misfortune.

That repair cost seems high. I can see the $1000 for labor incurred and the additional labor to complete the repair, but a total of $3000 seems high.

 

Sorry i worded it poorly, i meant its $2000 total, $900 already spent dropping the transmission

 

I could of sold you a flex plate and rear cover cheap. Actually, I think I have a oil pan I could of left go cheap too lol

 

I am unable to install it myself and most of the cost is labor, thank you though

 

3.4, right?

 

3.8 sc