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Are you gonna cover the hackery with frogskinz? That was my intention setting out was trying to create a cleaner air path to the air box.
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Are you gonna cover the hackery with frogskinz? That was my intention setting out was trying to create a cleaner air path to the air box.
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I'm not sure what I'll do yet. The saw sees a lot of firewood work so I might leave the cover stock and just run it with the open filter at GTGs and playing in cants. A bigger carb would probly be more helpful then any air box mods.
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Are you seeing chips and stuff pack up around the filter with the cover on now?
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No chips just dust filter stays pretty clean.
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I really wouldn't worry to much then.
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The modified airbox/filter for my 026 MOFO. Don't know if I gained any power, but I like the look and the sound from the saw 
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@Erik Markussen that's a beaut, I wish I'd jumped on the chance I'd had (can't remember for sure if it was a 26 or 29...unsure if 29's are even a thing lol...but woulda had to clean a huge 2-car garage to trade-for it and wasn't worth it 
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The lack of quantification drives me nuts, *I* feel that I'm behind on not quantifying and that's for my own frickin' purposes, w/ the guys who are doing port-work, or having saws sent-to them, the lack of quantifications blows my mind I mean a saw 'sounding/feeling' better is a nonsensical way to "analyze" this I mean in many instances mods may only be 5% or 10%, and sometimes mods are only gonna help in the specific instance where your saw otherwise-would-have bogged-down in a cut but now it can power-on-through for another 5% before bogging, these are great but hard to quantify....but simple "before/after" of racing-through wood is a fine-enough yardstick, there's zero need for dyno's as there's no more-relevant a test than how quickly it can cut wood, of course it should go w/o saying that all testing should have a 'Constant' of consistent bar/chain attachments to the powerhead(s) involved otherwise the test is pointless since just going from a bad, improper chain to a new, pro chain yields "mod-level" power increases (more-than, in most cases!!)
I did see a cool vid where a kid did actually do this the right way, wasn't a modification vid it was an out-the-box vid, used:
- same log, taking 3 cuts with each saw (w/ fresh chain / same bar length), averaging the 3 cuts,
- video'd this with a 540xp, 201t, and a 355t, then
- just stop-watched his video's
So damn simple (oh and echo FTW there btw
) to do, I wish I'd done benchmarks of my saws before modding them 
) SOoooo much ^ THIS ^ !!!!
The lack of quantification drives me nuts, *I* feel that I'm behind on not quantifying and that's for my own frickin' purposes, w/ the guys who are doing port-work, or having saws sent-to them, the lack of quantifications blows my mind I mean a saw 'sounding/feeling' better is a nonsensical way to "analyze" this I mean in many instances mods may only be 5% or 10%, and sometimes mods are only gonna help in the specific instance where your saw otherwise-would-have bogged-down in a cut but now it can power-on-through for another 5% before bogging, these are great but hard to quantify....but simple "before/after" of racing-through wood is a fine-enough yardstick, there's zero need for dyno's as there's no more-relevant a test than how quickly it can cut wood, of course it should go w/o saying that all testing should have a 'Constant' of consistent bar/chain attachments to the powerhead(s) involved otherwise the test is pointless since just going from a bad, improper chain to a new, pro chain yields "mod-level" power increases (more-than, in most cases!!)
I did see a cool vid where a kid did actually do this the right way, wasn't a modification vid it was an out-the-box vid, used:
- same log, taking 3 cuts with each saw (w/ fresh chain / same bar length), averaging the 3 cuts,
- video'd this with a 540xp, 201t, and a 355t, then
- just stop-watched his video's
So damn simple (oh and echo FTW there btw
) to do, I wish I'd done benchmarks of my saws before modding them 
