RS3 Engine in a MK7 Golf R | Owner Spotlight
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- Опубліковано 17 кві 2022
- This year at Wookies in the Woods we found something amazing! Innovative Motorsports swapped a 2.5T TFSI Engine from an RS3 into a MK7 Golf R! The Owner Kavin, shows us around the car and explains why he wanted to do this!
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In Germany there is a company called "SAR Turbotechnik" that is specialized in doing this swap regularly.
yeah for like 80 grand
@@digitalscale76 wow
In Croatia we also have a guy named Jerko. Doing this regulary also.
Germans scare me
1. Do they swap GTIs for RS3 also?
2. What about GTI -> Plug-in hybrid GTE/Audi
As a mk7.5 stage 2 owner, that “rubber band” analogy is spot on. Awesome build 🤤🤤
7.5 😵💫 wtf engine is that like a super block american muscel?
@@nerijusramonas7520 The "Mk7.5" means his car is the refreshed version of the 7th generation of Golfs. Production runs of Golfs are denoted by their generation. Also, his engine is a turbocharged two liter (Gen 3 EA888 - third generation of the EA888 AKA EA888.3).
@@nerijusramonas7520 bro lol
@@jflemthewiz ah the EA888, AKA you'd see 888 x check engine lights in the first year. It's really a trash engine.
@@arunmfive just say you don’t know anything about these engines
You know the people who ask why? It's just a slippery slope question. You do the things you do to make yourself happy. Period. Kudos to people and the communities to go against the norm and do what you love.
👏 👏 👏
This sounds incredible. If only VW would put the 2.5 in the Golf R.
So people buy a rs3
Interior in the 7.5 R is better than the RS3
@@amirnaseer9860 You should see the interior in my GTI Clubsport. Was the first to have Alcantara steering wheel! Check car on my channel! 👍
@@amirnaseer9860 7.5R can't hold a candle to the RS3 interior. are you kidding me?
From my understanding, VW wants to but it's an Audi motor and they ain't letting them
100% agree the R should have had that engine from the go
It would have eaten into RS3/TTRS sales significantly.
@@dantem306 solution is to detune the version they put in the R, keep the RS3 and TTRS higher in power #s. It could have also driven up price of the R which might be why it won't happen. Mid 40s is a lot of money for what at the end of the day is an economy hatchback.
@@Enzo187 I would have paid it. Would have saved me $15-20k. 😂
They almost had a Golf R with this motor. Called the R400. Naturally, Audi denied it, so they instead put a larger turbo on the EA888 to make 400HP, but then dieselgate happened.
well the car would've then been much more expensive
Every golf R should have that engine. Period.
They tried to make the Golf R fuel efficient. that's why it doesn't have a beast engine.
@@djbryson Keyword: Tried.
I took a weekend long road trip with my mate, I was driving the MK7R and he was driving his M4 and I went through way more fuel than he did. It didn't make sense to me. I was blowing nearly half of my weeks wage just to fuel it.
@@shona5512
Yeah, that doesn't make any sense. M4 is statistically way worse on gas. 24 MPG versus 30 MPG highway. Something ain't right there. You should be able to get like 350 miles (560 km) on a full tank if you go easy.
Tiny engine with tiny turbo sized for low end response. Makes sense. If it gets into any boost it just drinks fuel. Perhaps the biggest lie of turbo engines is the promise of better mpg
Audi said no
Awesome! For me, better than an RS3 or TTRS because it has a sleeper vibe.
Absolutely, also for me because North America doesn't get hatchback RS3's, this is the next best thing 🤣
other than literally every golf being the fastest car on earth (not really but seemingly every other golf has stage 3 runs deep 11s)
no way lol
how the fuck is GOLF R a sleeper? Everyone and their mother knows the stock Golf R does 0-60 in like 4.xx seconds. Pass me that shit you're smoking.
golf R isnt a sleeper lol
Innovative Motorsports deserves the accolades and attention. Great group of guys who are passionate about the project and making sure the client is content.
They do. They put a ton of work into making this swap possible and doing it right. 🙌🏻
OMG I am in love!!! this is exactly what the Golf R should have had from the factory, something that separate's the golf r from the GTI drastically
If my mk7R wasn't already stage3 I'd definitely have spent the money doing this!! That sound is incredible!!
Hope you have a good 50 grand plus spare lol.
@@IKenexPSN I've got about 50p and half an eaten Mars bar 🤣
When he said he probably wants to be burried in it - shows how much passion and love he has for his ride.
respect brother
I always thought: "damn, golfs are really cool, if only they had a 5-cylinder option"
So glad to see that it has become a reality
It was in there once. It was called the rabbit. A weak and thirsty no turbo I5
@@easycomeeasygo8901 ive seen maybe one fast ones but that was it
@@BullittKid08 modified yes, they can make power. But the 170hp it came with was underwhelming and not very economical compared to other Eco cars. So not great acceleration and not great MPG compared to competition. Modified absolutely a beast. But isn't that the story for modified engines that's why we modify them. My wimpy 150hp 1.8t has gone to the gym... 490hp 😊. Big little man now, lol
@@easycomeeasygo8901 right there with you bro ❤ went from a Mk6 2.5 stage 1 IE tuning to a bone stock 1.8t Passat with just a catback now! But I gotta ask what you did to your 1.8 to get that much damn whp??😂 GOT DAMN like I thought most you could go was stage 3 and even then that’s only in the 330-375hp range
@@MegaMarkitos99 😊 i went " full retard ". Tropic Thunder movie if you haven't seen it, lol. When it was a 1.8 this is what I did. 3" exhaust out to bumper, big fmic, 040 pump, ie street cams, ie intake mani, valves and strings, drop in rods, spa exhaust mani, crap gen 1 journal precision 5558, UM tune 26 psi on 93 fuel. Thats it brother. It was not cheap. You'll need something else if you want cheaper, lol. Those numbers were mustang dyno. Now im 2.0, bigger turbo, bigger throttle body, everything else same with the exception of custom tune that I don't have yet, lol. Searching for 562chp or 450awhp at the minimum on 93. Its a daily, only 93 fuel. Really no special recipe. I think I'll have to make a Channel of some sort start posting some videos, lol. Maybe I could be the next UA-camr🤣.
"I was never meant to mod it" ahhh we've all been there😂😂😂
Seriously. Was supposed to be a family car. “Well that escalated quickly” 😂
Same lol
My gateway mod is always and intake and a tune, once I get that I start spiraling deeper and deeper into the mods lol I haven’t gone as far as rebuilding motors yet
Hey guys, thats my car ☝🏻
I didn’t get to mention this in the video, but I’m probably more well known as the guy who helped people install the Helix’s sub in your MK7’s by creating an install video because the directions sucked so bad 😁
ua-cam.com/video/6dKJtnaV9CU/v-deo.html
Happy mod’ing!
Haha I just watched those two videos today
Why not just buy a rs3?
@@goldar4846 If you know you know dude.
Alex, great build! Been following y’all and this swap is incredible!
Kevin, great job making your car look as good as it goes down the road. The yellow accents are well done and not over the top.
Thanks so much! 🙏🏻
Wicked build. The sound it makes is evocative of the original Quattro back in the Group B days. It's a great alternative given that they never sold the RS3 Avant in North America too.
Wow! That is freaking awesome. Love the way that engine sounds. So unique. Wish I could do this to my MK7 GLI. Would be epic.
It’s a piece of art on wheels!! Congrats to the owner and shop that put it all together
Thank you dude 🙌🏻
Yes! Innovative Motorsport is legit. They need more attention on YT
Was going to say the same!
They are, and they do! Be sure to check out their YT channel! 👍🏻
Probably now my favorite motor swap! Always wished we got the rs3 hatch in the US but this is just fantastic!
This is absolutely incredible I’d love to do this to my MK7R full bolt on TTV5 with E85 nearly 600HP I love it soo much but I’d love the 5 pot in it the sound is just incredible..!!
I live in Australia and no one is doing this yet....Full respect 🙌🙌🙌
Perfection
In Australia the people has not interested for this.. They like surfing 😂🇦🇺
Thanks man! 🙏🏻 @innovative deserve half the credit. 😁
What have u done to your golf shepherd man..Is it stock?
People have done the 2.5 swap fair sure one dude did it into a mk7 tsi
So many reasons why this can't be possible in Australia. The cost of cars is way too high here, parts and labour cost is way too high also, you are 100% better off just buying an RS3 or TTRS. There was someone in the Australian VW Golf page who owns a European performance garage and estimated the cost to be over $80,000AUD from start to finish.
The shop did an amazing job swapping everything over and wiring everything together so you don’t have those pesky dash lights pop up!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
Yeah but I'm sure it still throws a litany of ghost codes which will drive a service center crazy.
Ultimately this is the ultimate best swap 🙌
The builder seems like one of those honest perfectionists and this just sounds very very proper to the funny point
Great excellent job brothers 👏 heart pounding
Absolutely massive good job have been done there!
Congratulations! 😎
This is the ultimate Mk7 mod. 🤯
Imagine comparing mods with other Golf R dudes. Yeah, i'm stage one. Yeah, I have an RS3 engine. Mic drop
Very nicely done, his dedication is to be commended.
Thank you! ☺️🙏🏻
This is my dream car right here !
That is so sick! Way to be unique! And kudos to Innovative Motorsports!
I'm in love with this thing! One last touch that could make it perfect is if you could swap the blue needles for yellow ones on the dials
This was meant to be the family car and one thing led to another and now it has the engine from the Audi RS 3.
Kevin is a great dude! Used to work with him and his R was one of the reasons I ended up picking up my GTI
Thank you my freind! Hope all is well!
This must be a immense task and never crossed my mind to drop a rs3 powerplant into the golf r. Its crazy and genius but beautifull
In my humble opinion the 5 Cylinder is "The Engine" VAG should have put in the MK7 / MK7.5 GOLF R from factory.
nope, VW has their own 2.5 turbo FSI engine. Its VR6 2.5litre (6 cylinder), but VW puts this engine only in VW Teramont and Talagon. It should have Arteon R too, but they discontinued that idea shortly before release
Amazing! Just need yellow needles in the gauges
You guys have done sth I dream of on my R, incredible!
Guys I like these kinda videos, please keep them coming!
Awesome job!! I can’t even imagine how fun that’d be to drive. RS3 Wagon 😆👍🏼👍🏼. This is going on the bucket list for sure
Gotta love that 5 cylinder 🔥🔥
Very very cool!!! Well done, and congrats all!
Noticed the Mass plates on the car, I've never seen it at any of the shows but I'd love to
Really impressive build. Sounds awesome too!
So sick! Crazy hearing that deep exhaust tone coming from a Golf lol
As an MK 7 R owner, I find this amazing. Thank you !
Fellow Massachusetts buddy! Awesome build. For me I'm a huge stock fanboy (mk8) but i see the awesomeness in this build.
As an RS3 owner, I wish I could have a hatch!
Huh what? In the UK both the coupe and the hatchback are available for the RS3, you don’t get that in America?
@@AlexMcCabeW Yep, sedan only in the states.
@@wangshuokevin I mean it is the prettier car anyway
@@AlexMcCabeW no, we have never got the hatch.
That was my thinking which is why I swapped an RS3 into my R. I have RSR #1 being built at Innovative. Just a killer platform if u wanna make big HP. I plan on making 1100 whp + and give them super cars hell...... lol
The E888 is a great motor, but like Kevin pointed out it has no soul. No glorious noises. I sold mine for that reason in the hopes of getting an 8Y RS3.
That is completely bad ass man...
I have an rs3 2023 and i have to say your car is awesome bro. Street sleeper and unique. Nice one
Love that this is from my home state. I need more info on those VAG meets though.
why rewire the existing harness? It's all MQB, much easier to just use an RS3/TTRS engine bay harness and ECU
Dude......that car is do badass. Well done gentlemen
yooo thats me in that dragon clip
This is nuts, I've read the long block alone for the 2.5 out of the RS3 is like $20k usd
This is so freaking cool! Still keep getting thrown off by watching this thing rip around with the 5cyl sound.
Congrata Kevin! Is an awesome car!!
That’s one sick build!!!!! Nice ride guys !!!!
It makes sense to me since Audi USA decided not to sell the RS3 Hatchback here. It makes total sense, Awesome build.
Yes man. Pisses me off that there's no RS3 hatch here.
@@djbryson May be an unpopular opinion but I'm not a fan of the sedan. It's something about it that doesn't look as proportionate as the hatchback looks. Maybe they designed it as a hatchback first and cut the hatch to make it a sedan. They should've given the option. All that performance for the sedan whereas VW on the other hand would never give us a Jetta R over the beloved Golf 😂
i need that car in my life.
This is some great stuff, I’ve been thinking between Golf R and an S3. Now a swap from an RS3 in a Golf R 😁👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
LOVE that exhaust note!!!
The proper way to make a golf compete. Love my DAZA
I just did this swap in Forza Horizon 5 lol and I thought to myself why isn’t people doing this? These guys are awesome, props to the owner and the shop for such a badass build.
Thank you sir 🙏🏻
oh shit! mass! lets go!!!!! i hope to see this car at a meet around the state!!!! id love to hear it
ive had a united stage 2 tune on my mk7 gti for about 2 years, it's fantastic
Man… as a new GTI owner I can’t wait to see a MK8 swap!
now this is exactly what i want to do!!!!!!!! if we just got the RS3 hatch this wouldnt be a big deal
I totally agree. If we got the hatch I would have just bought one of those.
@@Kevin_MK7RSR
Bit more expensive, but agreed
this is the combo of my dreams. love to se someone put it in reality. Great work, huge respect!
Oh wow that sound is so “throaty”… beast mode!!
9:45 I'm a graphic designer as well, something pulls me to get this car. awesome build man
Thank you so much! 🙏🏻
Check out Innovative’s web site in the next week or two…. I’m finishing up the touches on a complete redesign 👍🏻
www.imsperformance.com
I had a 2018 TTRS for a couple of years. That motor was sweet...and that car was super quick. Expecting this would be close, same MQB chassis but the VW is maybe heavier because less AL?
That's exactly how I picture my dream Golf R with a 5 cylinder motor😍
I didn't know this was possible. Amazing!
I can't think of a better engine for this kind of swap than this 5 pot
I personally love it inside a Golf 6R💪🏾
Same as an owner of an mk6R, thi sis my dream swap.
great swap I love the 5 cylinder sound but it'd be nice if they didn't seem to emphasize so much that it's "one off" when there's alot of people doing this swap lol
Wow great work.
Respect keep it up brother !!
5 cylinder symphony😮💨😮💨😮💨😮💨
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Really cool build! I think the ultimate build would be to do it to a mk7.5 R. Those unknown brakes make me a little nervous, though
They made me nervous too dude 😂. They perform pretty well once they have some heat in them. Cold... Not so much. 😬
F’ing phenomenal dude all around perfection, congrats!
this right here, is how it's done
$30-$80k isn’t bad for something this special. It’s not always about going fast, not that this has any problem going fast 😂🤙🏽
pretty sure it's about going fast
@@djbryson haha exactly what I thought after I read his comment lol. Nobody should do a swap this extensive if you want to go slow lol
Added to the cost of the car you're looking $70k-$110k+ for what is a very fast Golf. That's insane imho.
I have RSR #1 being built there and yea its about $80k but I got CF, Magnesium wheels and stereo that adds another $40k lol. Should be finished sometime this summer. Gonna be wicked.
@@borderwave2 How did you count? if it's 30-80k and you get 110k, then the with 80k golf can only cost 30k. 30+30= 60k
This looks like one expensive swap. Impressive
For same money you can just a get a Pfl Rs3 and save yourself the headache!
Beautiful!!! I need this!!!
Innovative indeed. I have one of their RS3 brushless drop in fuel pump kits waiting to go into my MK7 GTI S to fuel a TPC38BB Performance Spec turbo
Really good build aesthetically and power wise. Add in a MK7.5R Euro spec digital dash and it would be perfect.
What's the difference between the US 7.5R digital dash and euro spec one?
@@darrellb858 I'm not familiar with the US spec version as I live overseas. Could be the same if it is the virtual cockpit used in the Euro version.
This is the engine the MK7(and 8) R should have come with, albeit detuned and less powerful then a RS3/TTRS for obvious reasons. You cannot change my mind.
bad mileage, that's why it has a 4 cyl
@@djbryson probably, mk7 came shortly after dieselgate if i recall correctly.
Even though it basically gets the same mileage lol
Awesome awesome build this 5 pot really suits the golf R
I can’t wait to pick one of these up second hand
nice hot air engine bay intake though, other than that, gotta say a lot of work and it does sound nice and clearly has a lot of power for this hatch.
Yeah the Golf R has a cold air intake from factory, why degrade?
I could see myself doing this. We rarely get the cool cars here. All I wanted was a RS3 Sportback or a RS4 Avant, but Audi never brought them here. We have the RS6 now, but that's a big ole expensive bitch.
Hello! I´m Elton from Germany. Good job with the engine swap from the Golf R. Wonderful for me to see, that in the U.S. Golf MK7 owner are loving their cars. So wonderful, that I modified the speech of JFK in Berlin in 1963 in my own words: "All free MK7 Golf R owner, wherever they may live, are lovers of the Volkswagen Golf, and, therefore, as a MK7 Golf 1.4 TSI owner, I take pride in the words: Ich bin ein Golf 7 1.4 TSI Besitzer! :-)
This is the next best thing since we don’t get the hatch rs3! This is super dope, the Audi 5 cylinder is one of my favorite sounding cars! Plus they are super strong!
This is so freakin awesome. Question is, can you do this with a manual trans? I know RS3s don't come manual.
Also curious
The 8J TTRS came with the option of the MQ-500 gearbox. It would be doable with enough work and an earlier engine like the CEPA or CZGB. Not sure if it would work with the DAZA/DWNA engine like is in this Golf. Besides the DQ-500 is better at handling more power/torque with minimal fuss.
That's what I want to do to my mk6
The dream build right here
The Hot Hatch just got hotter, and here I am stroking my mk4 1.8t.
Is there somewhere in the world where this awesome engine is actually hooked up to an awd MANUAL BOX...?
All Mk6R owners busy frothing at the mouth looking at this 😂
🤣
Since I know I'll never own a GT2 RS , this build and spec is my "attainable" dream car. MK7.5 R with a RS3 swap, sitting at 500 whp. Just perfect for absolutely everything. And the owner here described it exactly how I think of it: Having the cake and eating it too!!
Super dope build. What a dream set up