Mod Guide: Nerf Elite Stryfe

This first mod guide is for the Stryfe, one of my favorite Nerf guns. We'll cover lock removals, voltage mods and how to make the motors decelerate faster. Let's start...

1. Preperation
Materials and tools you need:
-Nerf Stryfe
-Screwdriver
-Soldering Iron and filler metal
-Trustfire Li-Ion Rechargeable Batteries

Start by removing all 14 screws.

Open the gun and take a look at the internal mechanisms and how they work.

2. Lock removals
We'll start with this lock. It's the dart tooth, and it prevents you from pulling the trigger when no dart is in your clip. Also, with this lock, most non-Elite clips won't work with the Stryfe. So simply remove it.

This one doesn't let you pull the trigger when the acceleration trigger isn't pulled. Remove it in the following steps.

On to the next lock. This blocks the trigger if no clip is inserted. Unscrew the plate and remove the piece, the switch will be dealt with later.

3. Fast deceleration and Thermistor removal
You might have noticed that by opening the jam door the motor decelerates faster. This is because the switch is directly connected to the motor. You'll need to remove the trigger for the next steps. Unscrew the 2 lower screws and remove the mechanism.

Take all switches out of place and you should end up with something like this.

Sorry, I didn't take a lot of pictures here, but you'll want to have the jam door switch as your main switch. To achieve this, you need to remove the main switch and the clip detector switch. Take off the cables, you'll need them later. Now take off the red cable on the jam door switch and solder the blue, long cable to the end to make it longer. Then place your switch in the place of the main switch, solder the white cable to the bottom pole. Finally, solder the blue cable (which is connected to the red one) to the middle pole. The green cable stays. If you were able to somewhat follow me, your setup should now look like this:

Lastly, the Thermistor has to be removed. This piece doesn't let you use any higher voltage than 12V.

Unscrew and remove it, then take off the black and green cable and just solder it to the pole.

Now slowly start reassembling your internals, until you are finished. Make sure to route the cables neatly and nothing is in the trigger's way.

4. Voltage mod

This one is really easy, just open the battery tray and put in your Li-Ion Batteries. Check out my Basic Voltage modding Guide for this. I use Trustfire 14500 3.6V Lithium Ion batteries, which I get from dx.com. For the mod, I decided to only use 2 of them (8.4V) and put a cable in to bypass the other 2 slots. But now that the Thermistor has been removed, you can use any voltage.

If you've followed the steps correctly, you now have a modified Stryfe! 

Are you experiencing any problems or have a question? Just drop a comment!