E&L AK74 Upgrades

[ThierryG]

I’m looking to upgrade my E&L AK74 but I have been looking around and no sure where to start. Has anyone who done any got recommendations and sites if possible:) 

[Colin Allen]

What are you looking to improve?  Range?  Accuracy?  Consistency?  Power?  Rate of fire?  Trigger response?

[ThierryG]

2 minutes ago, Colin Allen said:

What are you looking to improve?  Range?  Accuracy?  Consistency?  Power?  Rate of fire?  Trigger response?

Range, accuracy and consistency. Keeping trigger as it is as I wouldn’t look right on a old style ak 

[Colin Allen]

Range and accuracy:

XT 6.00 or 6.02mm inner barrel

Maple Leaf Macaron or Mr Hop 60 degree hop rubber and nub (or any other good quality hop rubber/nub combination).  I have had mixed results with the 4uantum ones (awful in a G36, superb in an ICS Masada).

 

Consistency:

Air seals: piston head, cylinder head, nozzle.
 

A Perun V3 Hybrid is strongly recommended; it gets rid of most of the giggedy bits in the gearbox and can give you much better trigger response.

 

I am sure that others will have other recommendations.

 

 

 

 

[Adolf Hamster]

Assuming we're dealing with the platinum box, then tbh the airseal should be pretty on-point ootb.

 

A tan macaron+omega nub combo, your choice of nice stainless barrel (xt/zci/pdi), the right spring strength (ie not massively underpowered) and some good food will have it quite far up the diminishing returns curve without even opening the box.

 

Hop unit is perfectly fine, imo unless you're dropping a combat union in there then it's not worth changing.

 

The one peice cylinder looks superficially like it should be bad, but it isnt, i'm not sure i'd consider anything else an upgrade.

 

The nozzle could be swapped for alu, but it has a sealing o ring and i've used stock e&l nozzles as upgrades for other pews.

 

The piston head is a rare example of a mushroom style that actually seals, although i've typically swapped them for wide ports (if you do change to a conventional head then you'll want to shim it to bring the aoe back in line).

 

Piston is a weak point, but intentionally so and you probably dont need to change it if you're not going to be speeding the box up.

 

Anything else you'd consider short of selling your soul to the hpa devil is for the goal of snappyness/rof rather than range/accuracy.

 

A mosfet is reccommended, at least a basic model (eg nanoasr) for contact protection (avoid active braking unless it has precocking).