The stock barrel was made out of very light weight metal and just felt like junk (reminded me of a madbull). I did the same with my ICS M4. I've always had good experiences in terms of accuracy with aftermarket Classic Army barrels. To only reinforce my experience, this article,
http://www.6millimeter.info/joomla/inde ... &Itemid=42, proves that its actually one of the most consistently shaped bores on the market.
As for the motor, I kid you not, it out performs my ICS Turbo on a sp120 with 7.4v 3300mAh 30c battery in terms of RoF. I was very surprised. Trigger response is about the same. I've also chucked them to the side until I finally got some good lipo's. Seems they are just greedy little buggers and need a ton of amps before they show their true nature.
I found this even more puzzling as my ICS M4 motor performed far better in trigger reponse and RoF than the stock motor on stock spring in my L85. And it definitely is running a m120ish spring as it chronographed at 385fps w.20gram bb.
I stopped asking questions and just went with it. :lol:
But yeah, honestly the only thing I didn't hate about CA's was the accuracy. Sure the hop up was usually lacking, but almost every classic army I've ever shot was superb in terms of accuracy. If only the internals could actually put out more than 1k cycles before developing some random issue. :roll:
The moment I held my ICS L85 though, I knew from that moment I'd never buy from another brand. Just too much of a hassle to work on other brands when something breaks. ](*,)