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Originally Posted by tylamarre
Lol you know you've got some work ahead of you when you have to shim more than just the gears.
Good post. I too would like to know your opinion on ICS and maybe the Ares amoeba guns?
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I've worked on several ameobas. The hopup units seem to be of proper spec, but it's ares, they have a reputation for doing weird shit that is not on spec.
The ameoba gearbox shells are very brittle, they absolutely need sorbo. The cylinder head and nozzle are crappy too, they need to be changed together. You will be limited in mosfet/firecontrollers because the gearbox is proprietary and cast specifically to fit their firecontroller/mosfet/trigger system. You can't upgrade it. The rest seems to be run of the mill. If it has bearings, put bushings in for reliability. The sector gear has a magnet in it for the fire controller to detect the cycle completion. This magnet has to be extracted and transfered into any gear set you install. Whether that means epoxying into a larger hole in the gear, grinding it smaller to fit a smaller hole or enlarging the hole on the gear itself, this can be trouble depending on the gearset. I don't do extravagant upgrades on ameobas. I only maintain them at around the stock performance levels. For the price, I would still get vfcs. If you need a short gun, the stinger is a better choice than the weird ameoba. If you want the honeybadger, that's the only one worth looking at if you absolutely must have the HB, but the rear battery box is tiny, and I would not recommend a high end build with such limited battery space.
If you try to put a standard v2 into the lower, you will need to cut some of the ribbing out of the inside. The ribbing is there to reinforce the plastic so it doesn't flex and also cradle the gearbox around the area of the firecontroller, there it's narrower on the ares. The uppers on some ameobas is paper thin plastic, I've seen several shot through at the ejection port deflector.