Tork's manifold video is from March of 2023, and I haven't seen much about the Stinger on their youtube channel, but they did reply to a comment on a Hyundai video saying to expect more Stinger stuff this winter. Would be curious if
@Stingabit has any specifics.
Lap 3 makes a very pretty set of manifolds that would probably let hybrids/stuffed stockers do amazing things, but they're only available as part of a $12k turbo kit:
The world's most powerful build What is included- Twin XCarget XT26 Turbo- Twin Turbo Housing- Twin Turbo Manifold- Twin Tial MV-S Wastegate- Twin Downpipes- Custom Oil Lines- Custom Coolant Pipes- Charge Pipe- Intercooler-
HKS Blow Off Valve
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Tork is like a 1 man army. Unlike bigger shops with a bunch a staff, hes a smaller operation, with a bunch of projects, juggling customers too. The thought of juggling all the stuff he does, I would wanna go postal. Plus its not an easy development
That nice Lap3 unit that you point out, relocates everything, your turbos, hot side, cold side, all your ic piping, primary downpipe etc. It only makes sense for a bigger turbo kit. There is no point in that style of relocation for a hybrid. The whole point of the hybrid is to keep everything in the same place, so you can use all the cheaper mass produced bolt ons
The literal challenge with the manifold/housing is a bit two fold,
1. space is limited, so your bends, or pipe path on the larger manifold, need to be precise, so there is not room for error,
2. everything is one piece into the housing, so that means a mold for casting. A little more trial and error then just fabing up a custom manifold with a talented tig welder.
for perspective, he has to make a custom trick piece for hot side, of both turbo's, and they are both gonna be different. That shit is hard. Add in he has to use his own time and money. I dont see any dentists offering to help fund R&D for trick parts to modify Stingers with.
The Lap3 kit is the easy way out because you have so much freedom in design when you move everything wherever it needs to go. Entirely different ballpark when nothing is allowed to be relocated, you just gotta find a way to make it bigger, and still fit everything 100% stock location around this now bigger part
The hybrid turbo shops like PURE, and TurboKit, 100% understand how trash that manifold/housing is. But they also know, exactly how hard (hard=lots of money spent in R&D) it would be to develop a new one in house, and have absolutely have 0 confidence they could sell enough to make a profit on that R&D investment. Its why Turbokit took the easy way out by 'porting' the manifold section, which im sceptical of, because the manifold diameter is too small for there to be meaningful porting changes, with out compromising wall thickness on the stock manifold.
For a turbo shop, Hybrids are supposed to be a fairly routine part to develop, and part to make. For them, changing all the internals is routine. Its not normal at all to change external shit on a hybrid turbo you develop. Plus you now have a new QC point, that can directly f*ck up fitment. A few bad installs would tank the sales they would be desperate for to make up all the increased R&D cost
