Saw shootout/ MS 440, ported MS 460, MS 461, and Solo 681

Im following u.

 

What are you calling carb work?

 

Beside cant racing if u r cutting for speed in 20" wood will a standard carb offer any benefit over an mtronics saw?.

 

Venturi, jet, bore polishing? I dont know what all is really involved in carb work?

 

In most instances, no. The autotune system keeps us saw set properly for all of its conditions. Very few people with a screwdriver can do the same.

 

I like AT and MT saws. They prevent a lot of tuning headaches for me.

 

Exactly... Many a good ported saw has been rendered a turd via improper tuning..
Or worse yet, ruined...

 

Well I think theres alota folks thinking they can just turn the high speed up super high for a few cuts of racing and that means its gonna automatically cut faster

 

That works for a lot of saws. You can have a 372 turning 15.5k out of the wood for racing. No way I'd try to work one at that.

 

Yup.. If you clean up the tune, you can get a little more power.. Then after a few cuts, you'll start to lose it..
Everything is a trade off...

 

Would it make a difference in tuning the saw to a higher rpm in a race for just one cut in a 10" cant or a 25" piece of wood?

 

Also will the benefit of the higher rpm for cant racing only be beneficial at the start of the cut or all the way through the cut? Seems after the chain enters the wood and the added benefit of the higher rpms would diminish after the saw enters the work load range or is that also different in small wood racing vs bigger wood racing

 

Also are the saws u guys were using in the video standard woods port or were they modified beyond what most guys get in a normal woods port job? Im just trying to wrap my mind around the differences in a standard carb saw and mtronics saws and benefits of each for racing or working.

 

Which video were you talking about?

The woods port today is what a lot of the gtg saws were several years ago. Machine work wasn't in a normal woods port back a few years ago.

 

In the 066/660 competetion video Randy was in Mike. Were all thoso saws normal woods port that say id order from Randy today or do u guys go alil farther into the modifications?

 

Yeah most of those were what you get from Randy, Brad, and Scott.

 

Most?? Lol!! Thats what im getting at! The ones that won then probably weren't the normal woods port? I mean I know most of us r not gonna got the work that would go into most of thoso top winning saws?

 

I mean u may port one saw to its potential within limits of the carb will allow until u changed out the carb or drilled the jet?

 

Randy uses the same recipe I believe. I know some probably over ported theirs.