Are these other hybrid turbo options basically offering the same modifications as you?
Well... Sorta. And no. Lol.
The cheapest of the options is still pretty expensive, and its not even in the ballpark of what I've made power wise. And the really nice ones can get REALLY REALLY expensive, like... "Could have bought a bug turbo kit from DHM instead", expensive. We're talking $3500+. Pretty sure at one point I saw one that would cost us $4500.
Some of them are modest, decent upgrades. But the cost is just too high, and my cyborg setup easily beats their cost. Some of the others are very nice, cool setups, but the cost is just really high, and on top of that, they cross the line into that area of lag that the GT2552 is in. It almost always ends up just making more ( or a lot more ) sense to just convert to a real big turbo kit from ATP or DHM. Which is really at the root of why I don't make much money doing the cyborg stuff. I keep the cost as low as I can, so that it does make sense as an option. If I moved the prices closer to what a real shop would charge, they would be $2100 instead of $1450.
All these systems have a flaw in them, besides the lack of "bang for buck". They all either A) use a stock manifold that is not ported or improved at all. Or B) they use a big fancy tubular manifold. Now don't get me wrong, those big expensive tubular manifolds that pumaspeed makes, and peron makes, and DHM make, they are works of art. They are actually reason deals, even at $800-$1200, they take expensive materials, more time than you can imagine, and skill that doesn't come easy or over night. But... On a small turbo, it actually can cause a lag in response. Turbo's run off heat. The tube manifolds def flow better in the higher rpm, making more high rpm power ( no one can argue with Rod's 360whp car or DHM/Russ's 426whp car ), but the give some up on the bottom end of the band for that. With a hybrid, or cyborg type turbo, you've already given up about as much low end as you'd be willing yo give, all in the name of smoother and linear power from 3200rpm +. Are you really willing to lose even more response? For what? 12whp more peak power at the cost of $800-$1200? So your options are spend another grand and hope your "hybrid" doesn't become too lazy or use a power choking bone stock manifold.
You actually have two other options.
Option C) you pay me to port your stock manifold ( which adds even more cost to the already costly euro setups )
D) port them yourself. Porting them yourself is a real option. But I promise, if you actually follow through with an entire good port job, you'll wish that you paided me to do it. I actually let one of my local fist-friends use a set of my cores FOR FREE. He said that he had over 1,000 hours experience in porting everything from cylinder heads to turbos (like back-in-the-day turbo's like svo and dsm turbos). I happily let him use some cores. 10weeks later, he returned the cores with a smile on his face and said, "dude, your nuts. I spent hours to get where they are now, and there's no way I'm gonna finish them at this rate". And he was right. He'd barely scratched the surfaces. But it is possible. The porting is a big part of the cyborg, and puma speed doesn't port anything for what they charge.
I do think peron has a larger framed turbo that is basically machined to fit into the stock turbine housing. But that's a really bad idea ( although, it sounds and looks cool as hell, and is ). The cyborg has has a poor ratio of compressor wheel vs turbine wheel size already. Its not good. But in all honesty, that's just the way it is. Stock type turbo upgrades are not about being 100% perfect. They are about taking a turbo that is about 40% perfect and turning it into a turbo that is 80% perfect. If you want 100% perfect, I recommend you dial up DHM while slipping your mastercard out of your wallet, lol.
The lack of info we all have on these euro turbo's means that I can't make much for direct comparisons. And I don't blame them. I don't publish the clip on our turbines and I don't publish anything about our compressor wheel we use. And I wouldn't expect them to publish their info either.
From a stand point of anyone in the USA though, I haven't seen ANYTHING close to making me think that even the cheapest pumaspeed option is better than a ATP big turbo setup ( which also doesn't come with a ported stock manifold ).
Franky, I'm shocked I haven't been covered up building cyborgs for people in the euro market. With the exchange rate, they could get a cyborg for like $1000 !! Even if they didn't send me cores back, they'd get everything and still have there stock stuff to sell for $1300 or so.