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Airsoft Hardware => Gas Powered Guns => Topic started by: axisofoil on August 26, 2010, 07:06:02 PM

Title: GBB piston heads & enhanced loading nozzles
Post by: axisofoil on August 26, 2010, 07:06:02 PM

Do you get a noticable performance difference using aftermarket piston heads and enhanced loading nozzles in GBB pistols? Or are these things just snake oil?

For example:
http://shop.ehobbyasia.com/element-dyna ... 1-gbb.html (http://shop.ehobbyasia.com/element-dyna-piston-head-for-m1911-gbb.html)
and
http://shop.ehobbyasia.com/upgrade-part ... 911a1.html (http://shop.ehobbyasia.com/upgrade-part/parts-upgrade-pistol/guarder-enhanced-loading-muzzle-for-marui-m1911a1.html)

Title: Re: GBB piston heads & enhanced loading nozzles
Post by: XavierMace on August 26, 2010, 07:15:34 PM

Depends on the pistol and the part.  IE replacing a crappy ACM nozzle with a Guarder one will help.  Replacing a TM one with an ACM?  Probably not so much.

Title: Re: GBB piston heads & enhanced loading nozzles
Post by: axisofoil on August 26, 2010, 07:16:51 PM

Stock WE ones with those? It's not that I'm having any issues with the performance of my gun, but if a simple upgrade is out there, I would like to go ahead and get it out of the way. I'm already ordering from ehobby, and neither of those is big/heavy enough to change my shipping rates.

Title: Re: GBB piston heads & enhanced loading nozzles
Post by: XavierMace on August 26, 2010, 08:58:50 PM

I've generally only considered them as a replacement for broken or extremely poorly made ones.  I doubt you are going to gain much on a WE.

Title: Re: GBB piston heads & enhanced loading nozzles
Post by: axisofoil on August 26, 2010, 09:07:40 PM

I figured as much.
I'll just settle for an upgraded recoil spring and a good cleaning in that case.

Thanks!