Just want to share some mods I have done to my AVA. Yes people will say I did the crowning on the wrong end it's because I want to improve round feeding and the other end already has a slight chamfer on it already from the factory, grinding it would make cleaning up much difficult.
I started out with AE Swede's starter pack: shroud adapter + bottle adapter and tube block off + plenum
I bought the bottle regulator from aliexpress now they are available on his website as well.
I didn't feel like going all "tacticool" by wasting $150 on a couple thin pieces and the chassis isn't aesthetically appealing to me either. I'm not affiliated with Aaron by any means but you can tell his stuff are well made(7075 aluminum will kick your butt if you try to drill it) at a very REASONABLE price. I have had several conversations with him and I found he's very knowledgeable and easy to work with. I understand people like hajimoto need to make profit to feed his family but his stuff is way overpriced and he promotes his products like they are the sh1t and they are better than the rest, anyways not a big fan of him.
I always keep budget in mind as this is a budget gun it doesn't make sense to throw $500 worth of parts to "upgrade" it, at the end of the day it'll just be a ricered out Honda compared to a well made Porsche like the Impact M3.
Everybody nowadays likes some CF stuff so I think for less than $30 why not then I bought some CF tubing for shroud and barrel. It just happened that the shroud is almost the same diameter as the stock one and the CF barrel tubing fits perfectly over the barrel. I epoxy'd the tubing to the barrel for more rigidity.
After I installed his kit I wanted to make a reinforcement block that would shroud the port sections together as I didn't have a barrel band in the front at the time. It took me 40 hours of R&D and 6 iterations to finally make it fit like a glove.
Top 3 holes for shroud venting
And I also 3D printed new barrel dampeners to keep it centered.
As I have mentioned above it's a budget gun so I made my moderator with a Costco soda bottle with some closed cell foam around a PVC tubing, it worked surprisingly well. For the bipod it's the same story just a couple sections of PVC tubing with street elbows nothing special.
Now that the front is rock solid I moved my focus to increasing the air flow. I port matched the barrel port to the same size as the transfer port(whatever size your drill bit will fit into your transfer port that's the size I used). I did not want to fully take the receiver apart to work on the transfer port from the block as the top portion is threaded to open it up you will ruin the threads and have to tap for bigger size threads. I don't feel confident in doing this much work on a casted piece so I only worked on the barrel instead, honestly for a 22cal I think this will be enough.
The final mod that I just finished was to fill the buttstock with silicone rubber to dampen the echo from the cheap plastic. But in order to do that I hot ironed around the logo to lay down a bead of epoxy as it was leaking water when I tested it.
This silicone rubber kit worked great. You don't necessarily have to use a vacuum chamber like I did as the kit states the mix will degas by itself I'm just doing it for extra insurance and finish.
If anyone wants to do this mod I suggest you keep the foam to save yourself some material and also to not make it overly rear heavy.
This should wrap up my adventure with my AVA. Now that I have my M3 on the way I don't think I will perform any more mods to this gun. As of how well it shoot and the statistics, I'd say it's as accurate as it can be at 50 yards, I detuned the regulator to only 1200psi, when at 2200psi it was shooting Crosman Premier Hollow Point Pellet .22 cal, 14.3 Gr @ ~850fps so I would guess it should be around 750fps now just don't have time to get it chrono'd.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>THE PLATFORM FORMAT IS BUGGED THESE 3 PHOTOS ARE OUT OF ORDER IT WILL NOT SAVE MY CHANGES<<<<<<<<<<
I started out with AE Swede's starter pack: shroud adapter + bottle adapter and tube block off + plenum
I bought the bottle regulator from aliexpress now they are available on his website as well.
I didn't feel like going all "tacticool" by wasting $150 on a couple thin pieces and the chassis isn't aesthetically appealing to me either. I'm not affiliated with Aaron by any means but you can tell his stuff are well made(7075 aluminum will kick your butt if you try to drill it) at a very REASONABLE price. I have had several conversations with him and I found he's very knowledgeable and easy to work with. I understand people like hajimoto need to make profit to feed his family but his stuff is way overpriced and he promotes his products like they are the sh1t and they are better than the rest, anyways not a big fan of him.
I always keep budget in mind as this is a budget gun it doesn't make sense to throw $500 worth of parts to "upgrade" it, at the end of the day it'll just be a ricered out Honda compared to a well made Porsche like the Impact M3.
Everybody nowadays likes some CF stuff so I think for less than $30 why not then I bought some CF tubing for shroud and barrel. It just happened that the shroud is almost the same diameter as the stock one and the CF barrel tubing fits perfectly over the barrel. I epoxy'd the tubing to the barrel for more rigidity.
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Purchasing the 3K carbon fiber Tube/shaft from Manufacturer-Factory directly. You can buy a high quality products with reasonable price. Our tube is roll Carbon fiber tube, not pultrusion tube, roll tube was have the longitude and weft yarn, but pultrusion tube only have the longitude, not weft...
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After I installed his kit I wanted to make a reinforcement block that would shroud the port sections together as I didn't have a barrel band in the front at the time. It took me 40 hours of R&D and 6 iterations to finally make it fit like a glove.
Top 3 holes for shroud venting
And I also 3D printed new barrel dampeners to keep it centered.
As I have mentioned above it's a budget gun so I made my moderator with a Costco soda bottle with some closed cell foam around a PVC tubing, it worked surprisingly well. For the bipod it's the same story just a couple sections of PVC tubing with street elbows nothing special.
Now that the front is rock solid I moved my focus to increasing the air flow. I port matched the barrel port to the same size as the transfer port(whatever size your drill bit will fit into your transfer port that's the size I used). I did not want to fully take the receiver apart to work on the transfer port from the block as the top portion is threaded to open it up you will ruin the threads and have to tap for bigger size threads. I don't feel confident in doing this much work on a casted piece so I only worked on the barrel instead, honestly for a 22cal I think this will be enough.
The final mod that I just finished was to fill the buttstock with silicone rubber to dampen the echo from the cheap plastic. But in order to do that I hot ironed around the logo to lay down a bead of epoxy as it was leaking water when I tested it.
This silicone rubber kit worked great. You don't necessarily have to use a vacuum chamber like I did as the kit states the mix will degas by itself I'm just doing it for extra insurance and finish.
If anyone wants to do this mod I suggest you keep the foam to save yourself some material and also to not make it overly rear heavy.
This should wrap up my adventure with my AVA. Now that I have my M3 on the way I don't think I will perform any more mods to this gun. As of how well it shoot and the statistics, I'd say it's as accurate as it can be at 50 yards, I detuned the regulator to only 1200psi, when at 2200psi it was shooting Crosman Premier Hollow Point Pellet .22 cal, 14.3 Gr @ ~850fps so I would guess it should be around 750fps now just don't have time to get it chrono'd.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>THE PLATFORM FORMAT IS BUGGED THESE 3 PHOTOS ARE OUT OF ORDER IT WILL NOT SAVE MY CHANGES<<<<<<<<<<
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