Next new saw or mod saw?

I have a mostly stock 395XP Brazil made saw. It has a Jack Beelar muffler on it and I swapped to an unlimited coil. It runs excellent and has plenty of power in its current configuration, ported it would be an absolute beast. I also have a 7900 Makita that’s ported by huskihl and is pretty much my go to saw now. If you look around you can get into a new 7900 ported for right at or less than the cost of similar sized saws of Husky or Stihl brands. It’s doubtful I would have purchased the 395 if I had already owned the ported 7900. I have no experience running ported 550Xp’s, but I can tell you if I could only own 2 saws it would be a ported 7900 or 500i, and a ported NE346Xp.

 

This is our 50cc Echo XS4910 Kevin did. Over 40% gain, about 5.5hp or more now. 20" bar,
325 chain
https://youtube.com/shorts/NtaqIbzJRHY?si=POH7gL6RJQWJgOsm

 

Here's the 365sp Kevin ported for me:

 

Cuts through tulip pretty fast!

 

I gotta throw out a dark horse. The 95 beats it in terms of raw power, but these saws are not slouches and are said to handle better than the 95s. If I were to go bigger than 80cc this would be my next. They're getting scarce now. The big brother to your 372.

 

You need a ported saw Brad, you just don't know it yet.


Here is the same model saw, ported by someone else (Mike Lee) in boxelder.

 

Was that tulip? I was joking that it was?

With my part time gig bucking logs I kinda wish I had a ported saw now. Not that there's a problem with my work performance or I get paid piece work.

 

Mus

musta been a 21” ash

 

Ash.
If you got paid piece rate, definitely get one ported!!

Smaller dogs and I’d have gotten the whole cookie to drop.

 

I figured,….. just hacking on ya.

 

chainsaws definatley are the hotrods of power equipment, I dont have any ported saws, but this year I would like to get a few.

 

A teaser....

 

or is that a brandy new 462 headed for XS?