Mk7 Golf R Discussion Thread

[Bigboboz]

There have been 4-or-so revisions of the turbo IIRC. The last revision that I know of started being fitted to cars built around the beginning of MY15 production, in early-mid 2014.

What's a good place to get info on the turbo's? Combination of Golf R turbo specs just comes up with generic car specs rather than details on the turbo. Or perhaps my googling is rubbish!

Thanks,
Rob

[AdamD]

lol, very simplistic analogy there adamD have you found forum 7R owners that have failures that could be atrributable to the Jb1?please let me know if you like as I havent found 1 yet - but I mostly read VWROC & I did a heap of reasearch before I put a JB4 on my 335i

Nothing specific to the JB1 that I've read. But then there aren't many users of them that I'm aware of (in the scheme of things), and my objection to tuning boxes (particularly in comparison to tunes) is philosophical - I don't like how they work and would rather go with a more integrated solution for peace of mind. YMMV.

What's a good place to get info on the turbo's? Combination of Golf R turbo specs just comes up with generic car specs rather than details on the turbo. Or perhaps my googling is rubbish!

There are a few threads on ozAudi with specifics; I can't recall if this is the one that lists the model numbers, but it'll be a start:
S3 8V Golf R 7 Blown Turbos'

[SevenR]

Nothing specific to the JB1 that I've read. But then there aren't many users of them that I'm aware of (in the scheme of things), and my objection to tuning boxes (particularly in comparison to tunes) is philosophical - I don't like how they work and would rather go with a more integrated solution for peace of mind. YMMV.

lol, thought so.