{"id":43409,"date":"2019-07-23T20:14:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T01:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=43409"},"modified":"2021-03-01T19:58:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T01:58:18","slug":"monte-carlo-with-a-turbo-ls4-goes-10-3-sec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=43409","title":{"rendered":"2004 Monte Carlo with a Turbo LS4 Goes 10.3 sec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2004-Monte-Carlo-Intimidator-with-a-turbo-LS4-V8-08.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"43410\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?attachment_id=43410\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2004-Monte-Carlo-Intimidator-with-a-turbo-LS4-V8-08.jpg?fit=1800%2C1200&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1800,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2004 Monte Carlo Intimidator with a turbo LS4 V8 08\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;2004 Monte Carlo Intimidator with a turbo LS4 V8&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2004-Monte-Carlo-Intimidator-with-a-turbo-LS4-V8-08.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2004-Monte-Carlo-Intimidator-with-a-turbo-LS4-V8-08.jpg?resize=600%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"2004 Monte Carlo Intimidator with a turbo LS4 V8\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2004-Monte-Carlo-Intimidator-with-a-turbo-LS4-V8-08.jpg?resize=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2004-Monte-Carlo-Intimidator-with-a-turbo-LS4-V8-08.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2004-Monte-Carlo-Intimidator-with-a-turbo-LS4-V8-08.jpg?resize=1200%2C800&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2004-Monte-Carlo-Intimidator-with-a-turbo-LS4-V8-08.jpg?w=1800&amp;ssl=1 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ls4king.com\/\">Brandon Furches<\/a>&#8216; 2004 Monte Carlo SS Intimidator <a href=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=36545\">visited the dyno<\/a> and made 784 hp and 718 lb-ft of torque to the wheels. Months later he drove the 3750 lb car 140 miles to Lebanon Valley Dragway and went 10.36 sec at 137 mph. The car&#8217;s powertrain features a turbocharged LS4 V8 with stock crank, rods, pistons, block, heads and stock 4T80E automatic transmission. You can read more details of the project in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hotrod.com\/articles\/clawing-traction-784-horsepower-fwd-2004-monte-carlo\/\">Hot Rod&#8217;s article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/jWOFnPK9YbQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ls4king\/\">LS4 King FB page<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UClWb57_QvGHxtawWFGeum-Q\">Furches Performance<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year Brandon Furches&#8216; 2004 Monte Carlo SS Intimidator visited the dyno and made 784 hp and 718 lb-ft of torque to the wheels. Months later he drove the 3750 lb car 140 miles to Lebanon Valley Dragway and went 10.36 sec at 137 mph. The car&#8217;s powertrain features a turbocharged LS4 V8 with&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=43409\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2004 Monte Carlo with a Turbo LS4 Goes 10.3 sec<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":43410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[207],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-monte-carlo"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2004-Monte-Carlo-Intimidator-with-a-turbo-LS4-V8-08.jpg?fit=1800%2C1200&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36545,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=36545","url_meta":{"origin":43409,"position":0},"title":"Brandon Furches&#8217; Monte Carlo with a Turbo LS4 Makes 787 whp","author":"swaptastic","date":"February 26, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Last year we shared Brandon Furches' amazing 2004 Monte Carlo SS Intimidator built at his company Furches Performance in Ludlow, Massachusetts with a turbocharged LS4 V8 and 4T80E automatic transmission. 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The car features a transverse 5.3 L LS4 and a 75 mm Borgwarner turbocharger. 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