Posted 02 January 2014 - 04:52 PM

I've heard over and over that the Stryfe is the electric equivalent to the Maverick in the sense that they are both supremely easy to modify, and are a good platform to learn on. Seeing as our local Target had them on sale for $22, I picked one up just to see what it was like.Here's the box.I'd like to say at this point that I do test each blaster I get in stock form first in order to measure the increase of performance thanks to my modifications. The blaster performed rather poorly as expected, half being the crappy stock wiring and the other half being that it was powered by AAs. I didn't really care for the looks, there were way too many internal locks, and the balance of the blaster with anything more than a 6-mag was terribly nose-heavy. Lewsaur convinced me to modify it, and I then took the opportunity to execute an idea I've had for a long time.opening up the battery baycracking open the blasterthe acceleration trigger. What's so hard about letting them just push on the switch without having some angular sliding pieces?acceleration switch cover removed, lock pulled outthe thermistor and the main trigger mechanismpulled out the flywheel motors, same inductor lattice as the Rayventhe entire harness. This is one really simple blaster, so I can see why it's recommended.tested the weight of these flywheels, and surprisingly it's heavier than both the Rayven (3.3g) and the Rapidstrike (4.0g).pulling the motors out of the flywheel cagethe idea I was talking about earlier was a straight swap of Xmod motors into the flywheels. They have less torque than the stock Nerf motors, but because of that they can support a higher rpm from stock voltage levels. The rpm recovery time will be higher with subpar batteries (AAs) but I don't need to stuff a 3s lipo in that battery compartment in order to make it scream.Xmod motors installedflywheels replacedjust gotta do some solderingcareful routing the wires, they had to go through this canalall wired up, with a capacitor soldered near-direct to the battery terminals to control the voltage sag problem a little more.with some of the internals replaced. It's not as elegant as the Rayven or as cool (full auto) like the Rapidstrike, but I agree with the community that it's a good starting point. There's not much to replace, and there's much more room than in other blasters.Definitely not my favorite blaster, but I will concede that it's easy to modify. Start to finish took me about 3 hours. It really does scream on 2s lipo though.