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Thing about airsoft is as soon as you put on a hicap, it pretty much becomes a support gun on its own. I suppose if you wanted to, you could lower the spring to an M85 or M90 and fit an upgraded hop unit, which will help your BBs travel further and increase the ROF without putting too much extra strain on the gearset. In the real world LMGs can often have a lower rate of fire than a carbine. For example, the M249 has a slightly lower avg. ROF than an M4A1, but it's designed to shoot for longer periods of time before overheating. Honestly, I think focusing on the hop unit will be your best bet as you're already close to your FPS limit, and your  next thing to focus on is your range. In an ideal world, you'd keep the 7.4V battery but run a heavier spring to shoot .40 BBs at 330fps, but we don't live in an ideal world.

I basically have an LMG inside my ICS CXP ape, i have gate titan mosfet with 13:1 gears and piston short stroked. With m90 spring i get around 310 fps which is ideal for me and i get around 45 rps(rounds per second) on full auto. If you want your gun to shoot quicker you need different gearset, steel tooth piston, and mosfet ofc.

@AshOnSnow My primary field on allows a  max 360fps limit and allows only .2's or .25's, so im building to that specification as my gun already shoots around 330. Real limitations, ROF, etc do not matter here; I just want my m4 to have a drum mag hi-cap with a fast ROF, accuracy and good trigger response, hence why the inclusion of a 13:1, mosfet and 11.1v sound like a reasonable mix, especially since i'm already rocking an M100 and a high-torque motor (supposedly)

@matas17 You have my attention as Im looking for a similar build. how does the titan perform? ive seen videos and it looks amazing, especially for it's crippling pricetag.

i had titan since it released ,basically got it on day 1 directly from GATE. In my opinion its way better then what BTC can offer and more available everywhere. For the price its great, love the features it has on it. And for example if i find that my gun is not functioning i usually just connect it to pc and check the codes via gate titan app to see what could be the issue before taking the gun apart.

Ah - so not so much an "airsoft version of a real LMG", but an actual Airsoft LMG - in this case, absolutely your gears and motor are the way to go. You'd want to be able to run an 11.1 (which necessitates a MOSFET). I must say 45RPS sounds crazy though,. Matas17 are you sure that's what you're getting? That's way up there in actual M134 minigun territory. You must burn through boxes of BBs like hot potatoes!

Another way to raise airsoft ROF without sacrificing FPS is to offset a weaker spring with a tighter barrel. Of course, you have to make sure you're using the best quality BBs though otherwise you raise the risk of a jam (and if it's anything like what matas17 says he has, you'll have about 0.5 of a second before your entire barrel is full of jammed BBs

@AshOnSnow 45 is max i got it up to, without using higher then 11.1v lipo even tho Gate Titan can use up to 14.8v batteries. and for example my mate has stock G&G predator i replaced his stock g&g motor with SHS high torque, his gun was previously shooting 33rps. When i changed the motor it went all the way up to 50 somehow o_o and i swear to god i havent tinkered with internals on his gun.

That's crazy ROF!

So it's faster than this?

@AshOnSnow yup thats what mine sounds like

@AshOnSnow sounds more like this, since this guy obviously knows how to shim