I wise old git once told me to upgrade the player before upgrading the gun.

Stock play teaches you many lessons.

I upgraded my CA til no stock internals remained, it still shoots around 300fps, whatever.

It's not to say that I haven't played with upgraded guns before, but after awhile I just found that anything over 350 fps (less BA's) weren't really necessary for me. Upgrade your internals all you want. We all have our own preferences to do our own thing; tha's your perogative. I'm not going to tell you that you shouldn't upgrade, and I don't expect attitude in return.

You replaced CA gears for XYT gears?? (assuming so from your signature...)

That's like... getting a CA AK47 and replacing the mechbox with a kraken one.

Waiting on modify smooth pre-shimmed thingys... Yeah the XYT is a bit of a letdown. But it holds up pretty decently, and the ratio, as far as I can tell by looking at the spin rates, isn't bad.

If you really want to have a great preforming gun you should try to stick with all one brand of upgrade parts... Mix-matching so many brands can cause tolerance issues.

=( but nothing from my G&P complete works anymore :X I checked the mesh between the piston and gears and it looks ok... Lol. I've kept portions of the mechbox the same brand, and different portions, a differnet brand.
It's got a G&P upper mechbox portion, the gears are all XYT, the wire and trigger set is G&P, and the electric stuff, the tappet and nozzle are modify. Lol, this is where I'm newb.

I will never buy TM as a gaming gun because it is simply made out of plastic and ive had many friends with plastic guns having cracked externals from accidents and high fps guns. But i will never say that a TM isnt worth your money because they are beautifully made and id prefer to have them on display and plinking rather than use them in a game. You can basically ruin the essence of the gun if you replace the internals. I prefer buying a clone and doing reliability upgrades for it for my games.