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?

 

Close

 

Ms400?

 

Ding Ding...chicken dinner for you.
Kevin got it for me from a dealer up there, at his place now...

 

Y’all are a great influence, thanks for posting video examples, heading down the ported 592 rabbit hole. Looks like I’ll be getting the saw to use this winter and spring, until it’s turn in line at Kevin’s shop.

Thanks y’all!

 

Kevin might can get you a good deal on one up there, save some on shipping.

 

Dealer about an hour from here had them on sale for $850. I was tempted to buy another.