Malpaca

I really love the vibrant and glowy effect of safi weapon, but the best weapon in game forces a dragon element i.e. purple flame. Is it possible to have the safi flame effect on even normal LS? I am also interested in learning how to edit custom effect into weapon and would love to have a tutorial linked for me as well. (All i can find are how to add special effect and epv file edit, but non relating to how to edit a certain color in a efx file