could my starter be bad and thats why i see smoke whenever i start or try to start my car?
its coming from around or near the starter and it seems to stop right when it cranks up and gets revving

 

Check and clean the battery cable connection at the starter...

 

feel dumb but figured out what it was.
i had parked it in the grass and underneath it the grass had grown up and well long story short i was smoking grass
that and my exhaust needs to be tightened up a little more and torqued.
what ft. lbs. should i torque the exhaust bolts at? like at the headers to the glasspack the glass pack to the mid and so forth?

 

lol, you were smoking grass!