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I love upgrading guns. A good barrel with consistent bore and hop up goes a long way regardless of the platform. Upgrading a GBB to run on HPA and take AEG mags is game changing. Changing magazine valves and gas transfer seals can improve power and consistency on GBB/GBBR platforms. There are definitely shitty upgrades, I guess it depends on what you buy. This seems more like a rant because he got a shittily made "upgrade" part, and isn't indicative of GBB upgrades as a whole.

I think you need to change how you view things. Personally, I don't think of these as upgrade parts, I think of them as aftermarket parts and a big part of the journey of upgrading any GBB gun is that you try many combinations of aftermarket parts to try and push the platform to its limits (within your local rules). That said, there's a reason my TM MWS internally is left stock other than barrel and bucking - i think its a good idea to have one gbbr that you can rely on, while tinkering with the others :P

I love to tinker with my stuff. One of my guns shot pretty mediocre out of the box. A few months, complete disassembly about 9 times and now it shoots amazingly consistent.

The only thing about my WE PDW I really want to upgrade would be the trigger box once the standard soft internals have worn out. I heard RA-Tech is the way to go. Otherwise I’d only want to "upgrade" my PDW back to stock, when I’m outside of Germany. Btw, can I buy WE gearbox parts separately like the auto sear, for example? Or do I have to buy a whole trigger box? Now that I think of it, it might even be a good thing to have different trigger boxes. Makes changing them easier.

I just received the Inakotsu Colt M4 and it came with buffers and two spring buffers! A plastic light one and a aluminum one! Not sure if that’s supposed to happen or if Evike sent me the buffer because they knew i wanted to try one?

I bought the second "upgrade" of my life, a Poseidon nozzle and what do you know suddenly I can barely split my upper and lower, the carrier sits like a mm further back. Isn't that just wonderful! Hopefully it will be as cold resistant as advertised.

i 100 percent agree. At least on gas guns. I spent maybe 100 euros on my ssp1 and it shoots pretty much the same as stock. However in aegs upgrades are usually worth it. I have had a few upgraded aegs and they shot way better and lasted longer than when they were stock.

the only Upgrade i've installed in my GBBRs are new hopup bucking and Laylax inner barrels. Steel Ratech bolt are okay too, but you need to lightening first. till it weight the same as the original bolt. and whats funny, i've lighten my steel bolt by looking at the shape of those Real Steel light bolt for AR15. works well with no problem. if only theres aluminium bolt for my WE 416 i would buy it lol.

The only "upgrade" I ever bought was a Wii aluminium nozzle for a KWA Mac11. It's measurements are out of spec, almost didn't cycle when I got it, I'm still having a lot of problems with it. And the biggest issue is that it can't run in as low temps as the plastic one.

Hey! Can you make a video "ssg-10 VS ssg-96" becouse I will buy ssg-96 but I don´t know how good it is. Thank you for the videos you have done!!!

Even exterior parts can be a pain to fit. It's frustrating. Tried building a custom gun from parts and it was a nightmare.

in spain is pretty usefull as the max for this role is 1.14 jules and in cqbs maps u need to be less than 1.0 jule no matter the gun, a shotgun , a pistol... lmgs snipers all the rest have the average fps as the rest of europe but in the average role is only 1.14 jules MAX

Where can I find parts for a Umarex MP7

are you gonna get the vfc mp7 gbb that is 1/1 size?

I love upgrades, I am a HPA guy, and rarely AEG. So my view might be diffrent since I dont use gas guns.

That the vfc mp7?

Nooo Josef, why didnt you buy the VFC one? :) What are you thoughts on the different brands? I bought the VFC MP7 couple of weeks ago, feels solid, hop-up is a bit stiff but seems to work pretty well. Did not have the chance field it yet (yay corona).

What I get from this is "dont fix what is not broken". Many ppl starting with airsoft including me are asking what to upgrade/replace at first. Well for starters it seems upgrades has zero sence and stock guns are more than enough. If I understand corectly, upgrades are for enthusiast with years of expirience. Thanks for that.

100% Agree, not only are they expensive, they are time consuming as well, another aspect people tend to forget.

More VFC Mp7 videos pls

Nice video. Can you please make a review on the mp7?

It is very simple, if it does not work out of the box very well (do not accept: 'it works ok, maybe it's better upgraded'). it is not worth the time or effort, each new part you introduce only increases the amount of problems and time consumption of a non fieldable gbb, or even worse, you think its working and then there is a complete failure in the field. The absolute max you ever need to change is the barrel and bucking.

What happened to Joseph…? He’s been gone a long time….

Ok so let’s say, like me you purchase a retro arms receiver, gearbox with the integrated hop, and the outer barrel and rail. So is everything else you purchase “upgrades” or is the entire gun just one big upgrade 🤔

Is it u from the popular front video?

I'm with you on this except NPAS and triggerbox in WE rifles. I've owned a bunch of WE rifles and upgrading to NPAS and swapping some triggerparts is fine but leave the rest of the nozzle and bolt stock unless you like tinkering and troubleshooting. Ra-tech aluminumnozzle is the worst offender and belongs in the trashcan.

that would be god for Ireland, where there is a 328fps limit

Well, I can't say about gas guns, but for aeg or spring, upgrades are awesome, some are unnecessary, but some are pretty damn cool. As a airsoft tech, I'm surprised and saddened that airsoft companies do such a poor job at assembling their guns. Shimming and aoe are most of the time very crappy, even in high end guns. And worst thing people tolerate that shit. Like you wouldn't do that with phones or whatever

Agreed!

The only airsoft GBB rifle worth their salt is the Marui MWS family honestly, it's the least troubled (if at all) GBBR of all existing things out there

one thimg... u from czech?

is this the KWA?

I cant tell for gas-guns but on AEGs upgrades are not bad... Good Video!

Ive got a question, ive got tons of .45 bbs, would you rather use that over .4s? My ggbrs are we mp5 and 416c

Works for company that sells pre-upgraded replicas. 'Why I hate upgrades' 🧐🤔

Break a cheap lighter to get a heavy nozzle spring and o rings! Break a Bic lighter to get new heavy GBBP nozzle return springs free!

ok...i got some experience on this and i think there are few points worth to mention... 1. upgrades for GBBs means mostly durability not performance... initial performance is already good and their goal is to replicate lethal guns, not to achieve fancy miserable performances possible only in airoft anyway...like over 1000 ROF on a regular gun... 2. since gas is not some exact science...you need to know what you're doing anyway...or just let it stock 3. if you buy GBBs you most likely want realism not performance...so better focus on reliability and feeling 4. most manufacturers offer disgusting quality (internal atleast) so you NEED to "upgrade" them to steel parts sooner or later...AND are also way overpriced for what they can offer (especially WE Tech) soo...yeh...know your market, buy second-hand if you can...then upgrade with FINALLY relable parts...-,- 5. i think i figured out a way to use compressed air instead of Gas/CO2...so...save costs ! But i definitely need to test it way more...but it's possible! 6. the only real upgrades for GBBs which can really increase performance a bit are : Barrel and HopUp. (adjustable NPas is a nice thing...and i still can't understand why they don't manufacture this as stock...anyway.."besides wanting you to buy more stuff"...) all in all...unfortunately..."upgrades = just reliability" more and more...not performance...

I would say... upgrade your bucking, barrel n spring... the rest, wait for stuff to break, then replace those parts.

I'm with you on this one. 99% of the times, _upgrades_ are detrimental. Very few exceptions to the rule. Guns are fine tuned by the engineers at each company, and the moment you change one of the variables, everything else collapse around it. Not to mention companies that sells upgrades usually know a lot about marketing, but don't even understand the very basics of how a GBB works. And yeah, I'm looking at you, Poseidon. Never thought a company could design such bad upgrades that would make RA-Tech look great by comparison -_- Since I'm here early, the issue with your P90 is probably the floating valve ;)

upgrades mean: gun shoot better.....

holy shit there is sooo much wrong with this video, upgrades can be really good for your replicas they are not bad at all, now stock guns can be good don't get me wrong, perosnally i would recomend you run your replicas stock until they brake and only then upgrade them, what is going on in this video is that Josef gets a free bolt (most likely a cqb bolt idk as he never named it) now he said he disliked it because it only gives him 0.8j with .40g bbs which idk why he is? it's an mp7 i don't use them in my full sized ak12 i personally think that .40 are way to much for that type of gun .28 or .30s should be good enough for that type of gun, with .28 he should be getting at least over 1j, now he said that he gets 1.8 to 2j on his stock replica which again i think is too much for that type of gun, at least the rules where i am is that automatic replicas are limited to 1.5j, now he is complaing that his small pdw that he put a bolt with a weaker valve spring is giving him 0.8j and not being able to hop .40g bbs (again too heavy for that type of gun) he says that you shouldn't buy upgrades for your guns even tho he works for a company that sells you replicas which selling point is that they are pre upgraded, so why not just run a cyma vsr10 then josef??? it's like a 90e replica why buy the novritch one for over 300e, his point is that it's complicated to upgrade your replicas, and yes it can be and that's why if you don't want to be bothered with that just take it to a tech, pay them 20-30e or how much they charge and they will make your replica work, because they have experiance with that sorta stuff, upgrades work but you have to know what you are doing you can't put a random bolt in your mp7 that you got for free and don't even know what it is and then be suprised when it shoots lower then your stock replica, you need to know which parts are compatible with others, and there is a lot to lean as an airsoft tech so don't post videos like this when you don't know what you are talking about please

Title should say "why I hate downgrades". Upgrades by definition are good. Example: replacing stock rubber with one that can lift the BBs you want to use, stock crap barrel with a high end one...etc. Click bait I guess, surprise.

stock guns are china crap internals. Aftermarket upgrades are a little less shitty china crap. But if done correctly it will out last and outperform stock guns. Cast pot metal vs steel common dude which is better?. ABS plastic or aluminum which is going to last.

GBBR still rulez 🤙🏽

Horrible

i rather upgrade my hi capas nd glocks then ay with stock guns stock is boring all my guns gone have upgrades