SCARR sullies the Echo CS355T

[srcarr52]

Comments, complaints? It's the wrong color?

 

[Maintenance Chief]

Thats a great little top handle now!
I salvaged a 330T from the scrapyard and have been very impressed with it.
Seems like Echo had everything right with these then someone ( engineer) pizzed all over their parade, cat mufflers, huge squish, ect. ,regardless a great little saw with some work.

 

[Duane(Pa)]

Nice work! Lots of side effects from the medicine you gave it. Should be a great climbing saw.

 

[srcarr52]

I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. It’s for a local but it’s got me thinking of buying one as they are pretty inexpensive.

 

[Nutball]

Good job. As much as I wanted to increase the compression on one, I foresaw too many other problems that would make getting everything lined up properly more difficult than it is worth especially with my limited tools. I increased compression on the 303T, which only needed the oil pump and coil modified to fit. But, the 303t has a small reed valve intake on the very bottom. I'm not sure if it could be piston ported with intake tubes JB welded on somehow, or if there's room to make a larger reed block. I imagine you could build a strong 303t. They have a regular straight out exhaust.

 

[Maintenance Chief]

I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. It’s for a local but it’s got me thinking of buying one as they are pretty inexpensive.

I think I've seen a guy selling parts ones on EBay, he must get dozens of them.

 

[Nutball]

Any intake mods?

 

[Mattyo]

seems like a trixy saw to mod... difficult to make the mods worth it? or does it seem a worthy endevor on this piece?

any advantage here over a 200t?

 

[srcarr52]

seems like a trixy saw to mod... difficult to make the mods worth it? or does it seem a worthy endevor on this piece?

any advantage here over a 200t?

An initial saw price of $350-400

 

[srcarr52]

Any intake mods?
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I trimmed up some of the baffles on the intake. Not too much that it won't keep the spitback off the filter.

 

[MemphisMechanic]

I climb with one of these that I ported and fitted with a 16” panther bar & 1/4 pitch chain. (Yep the mokeybeaver stuff.)

In general I like the saw but it isn’t as tough as a 200T by a long shot: the motor lives inside a plastic case. I’m on my second saw because the top handle anchors to the case with a single small plastic tab. Drop the saw from 10ft up and you’ll break that forward mount clean off. I did.

 

[Slumberjack]

Comments, complaints? It's the wrong color?

Wowza dude! Saw rips like 50cc. Amazing job as usual, if people don’t like that saw it must be the color

 

[Maintenance Chief]

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Wowza dude! Saw rips like 50cc. Amazing job as usual, if people don’t like that saw it must be the color

They come in grey also.

 

[Slumberjack]

Th

They come in grey also.

That’s more like it!

 

[srcarr52]

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They come in grey also.

I don’t mind the red/black. I think it’s better than white/orange.

 

[CR888]

I have this saw in the rear handle version, in Australia its sold as a CS-350wes. Damn nice little saw, built fairly well, runs fairly hard. Its actually pretty much on par with my MS201c with the exception of not having spring av. Scarr does some smart stuff. I bought this for like $130au and it was a lady who owned it! You might get a b/c for that at my local Stihl shop...lol

 

[Gullet]

Ran across a CS 400 today @ pawnshop & call me impressed!

So small & light, I think other shoppers heard me moan in splendor when I picked it up.

My CAD was intrigued...

 

[Nutball]

Comments, complaints? It's the wrong color?

What numbers did you end up with? What are the stock numbers? I never recorded the degrees, only the distance from the squish band.

Any ideas for improving on the 303T reed block? The inlet hole is very small, but the area available to work with is quite large. And you might be able to add a booster port to the 303t if the piston pin is plugged.

Ran across a CS 400 today @ pawnshop & call me impressed!

So small & light, I think other shoppers heard me moan in splendor when I picked it up.

My CAD was intrigued...

The 400 has surprising torque when stock.

 

[Piston Skirt]

I have this saw in the rear handle version, in Australia its sold as a CS-350wes. Damn nice little saw, built fairly well, runs fairly hard. Its actually pretty much on par with my MS201c with the exception of not having spring av. Scarr does some smart stuff. I bought this for like $130au and it was a lady who owned it! You might get a b/c for that at my local Stihl shop...lolView attachment 348039

CS-350WES (the one in your picture) is a rear handle version of an older top handle CS-350TES (can be easily recognized by diagonal left handle)
The US-sold CS-355T is technically almost identical to more recent non-US CS-360/362TES

Also, the saw in the picture still has KIORITZ sticker on it, meaning it was produced before 2008 (sticker confirms 2005) (KIORITZ & SHINDAIWA merger into YAMABIKO).

 

[sawmikaze]

Wowza dude! Saw rips like 50cc. Amazing job as usual, if people don’t like that saw it must be the color

They don't last when hanging off a biner for too long. I heard a guy on tree buzz call it a rich man's baby rattle, he hit that nail on the head with that one.

But it runs really good in that video.