VW Golf R Mk7.5 With Audi RS3 Engine Has 800+ HP, Sounds Brutal

If a juicy rumor from early 2020 is to be thought, Volkswagen at first meant to cram in Audi’s inline-five engine from the RS3 within the Golf R Mk8. Nevertheless, legend has it the Four Rings reported no, forcing the peeps from Wolfsburg to depend on their two.-liter four-pot and extract a little bit a lot more muscle mass. The proprietor of a Golf R Mk7.five took issues into his have arms and obtained rid of the stock engine to substitute it with Ingolstadt’s two.five-liter unit.

This kind of engine swap is much from remaining new as we have observed our reasonable share of very similar assignments in excess of the several years, but this has to be the cleanest and most outstanding establish hence much. It really is from The Netherlands and the car belongs to Instagram consumer gry_r800, who happens to have 25,000 followers on that social media platform. His channel is all about the hot hatch, from the early times of using supply of the Golf R to the small monster it is now.

The heavily modified VW was not too long ago captured on camera displaying its immaculate engine bay, entire with its sweet-sounding TFSI. The engine in problem carries the DAZA codename, which means it can be the unique model of the outgoing RS3 before Audi ran into issues with creating it WLTP compliant. Alternatively than creating the stock 395 hp and 354 pound-feet (480 Newton-meters) of torque, it now pumps out supercar amounts of electrical power.

German aftermarket specialist SAR-Turbotechnik was in charge of the engine swap and fitted the inline-five unit with a TTE700 package from The Turbo Engineers. MTR-General performance handled the software and the conclude final result is a Golf R able of creating in excess of 800 horsepower and 800 Newton-meters (590 pound-feet) of torque. Yes, that is a lot more than even VW’s have bonkers Golf GTI W12-650.

The Audi-powered Golf R Mk7.five shares the spotlight with an additional heavily tuned model, this time around an Mk6 with a TTE480 pack.