Can my gun handle a lipo?

Ive got a cyma ak with basically a rebuilt gearbox. It has modify 7mm bushings, new shim job, v3 7mm gearbox, m110 spring shooting 360 fps ,matrix turbo motor, element piston with steel tooth rack, SRC Steel gears. I'm currently running it on a 9.6v mini shooting upwards of 20 rps. I tried out my friends 11.1v lipo and it was INSANE. I also tried out a 7.4v lipo and it was giving some really nice ROF. But I was wondering with the upgrades I have can it handle a 11.1v lipo.

mosfet and deans and atleast 16awg wire

What else does a MOSFET do besides the active breaking and speed up my ROF? And I know deans offers lower resistance wiring but how will this help?

Airsoftguy238 wrote:What else does a MOSFET do besides the active breaking and speed up my ROF? And I know deans offers lower resistance wiring but how will this help?

Lipo batteries are wired to deans. So you either wire your gun to deans or your lipo to tamiya. A MOSFET will prevent your contacts from frying.

ok, I saw some of the deans to tamiya connectors at airdog for cheap so I'd rather get those than re-wire to deans, and how big of a chance is there that my contacts will fry?

Extremely high, especially if you get a nice lipo (i.e. 25c plus)

Okay, does it sound like the rest of my internals can handle it?

As long as AoE is adjusted and it is well shimmed.

Ryan did the shim job so I'm assuming its good and whats the AoE?

ur piston will not work especialy if u are running a turbo and lipo trust me on this u have to get the best of the best. urs will not work

My piston has held up very well, and my friend had this piston in one of his guns that he ran on a 11.1v lipo and it didnt strip until a few months later.

ok dude aparently i wouldnt no its fine u must no it all. but did he have a turbo motor also? prob not u have to think u will be doin over 30 and i yet have found to find a piston the will hold long. my m4 does over 40 and i only have found one piston that works for a while. and i have a tubo, 8 mm gearbox, lipo, custom piston, m120 spring etc trust me i no. but go ahead and see what happens to ur gun after a while......

if u took the turbo motor out then yes ur gun would last forever just turbo plus lipo equals insane piston and urs is only a half rack of metal mine is full aluminum with a steel rack

I'm pretty sure my piston has a full steel tooth rack and his gun had a turbo motor as well what piston do you recomsnd

u have the element orange one it has a half rack set up half metal half poly carb...... and the piston i have is custom made.

my bad I thought it was a full steel tooth rack, what piston that's on the market do you recomend?

hmmmm idk man i havnt had much luck wit many especialy wit extreme high speeds like my gun

Maybe I'll stick with the 7.4v lipo or just get a 10.8v battery because 11.1v battery mixed with the turbo sounds like a lot of money going into new pistons

Did you adjust the AoE on yours?

Whats the AoE?

Angle of Engagement, the piston should be fine if you fix that, it will take a lot of stress off it.

how do I adjust the AoE?

Okay, I'm gonna try to adjust my AoE and the next piston im getting is going to be short stroked. But I'm not going to put a new one in until my current one strips