Racingline Stage 3 turbo kit
Racingline Stage 3 ECU
Autotech fuel pump upgrade
Racingline uprated intercooler
Racingline silicone boost pipes
Racingline R600 sports intake
Racingline enlarged turbo inlet
Racingline muffler delete
Racingline silicone intake hose
Forge uprated boost pipe
APR coils
Colder spark plugs
Racingline oil catch tank

Currently the ultimate Racingline upgrade you can have on the two-litre EA888.3 petrol engine. It is also the upper limit the engine can take without forged internals. Let's look at what the upgrade brings and briefly recap how we prepared the Golf for it step by step.

Racingline Stage 3 replaces the original IS38 turbo with a hybrid sibling straight from Racingline's workshop in England. Besides the turbo itself, you also need an uprated intercooler, a modified intake, an uprated fuel pump, a sports catalytic converter or a downpipe without one, and an uprated clutch kit on a manual car, or a software upgrade on the DSG version. The kit itself includes an intake hose, a Stage 3 turbo inlet and a Stage 3 muffler delete.

This package then gives you a crazy 496 hp and 590 Nm. Even so, the car remains pleasantly refined and the power can be put down on the road, especially combined with the Golf R's four-wheel drive.

The much-loved and much-hated pops & bangs depend on the selected mode: you can turn them off completely or let them loose in Race mode.

Racingline Stage 3 brake kit
Racingline rear brake pads

From the outside this very understated car can now be told apart from a standard one even in a car park, because the front wheels are filled with brutal Racingline Stage 3 brakes. The whole set is lighter than the original brakes: 380 mm discs, ultra-light 6-piston calipers and several pad options to suit the customer's needs. A brake kit that doesn't ask, it just stops. All with completely predictable brake modulation and heat resistance. For now we have only fitted Racingline pads at the rear.

Remus valved cat-back exhaust
Milltek downpipe with sports catalytic converter

Because the car was still missing a sound, we chose an exhaust from the Austrian company Remus, specifically their system that keeps the original valves, in the version with a centre silencer. We had not heard such a balanced sound on this car for a long time, and it is hard to imagine anything better on this R without an OPF.

Sound clip straight from the manufacturer's YouTube channel: