MustangMike got me looking at the muffler in my FT kit. How loud is the saw? I would put a screen on mine. The screen not only keeps stuff from flying out, it keeps stuff from going in muffler and possibly into cylinder. No much to that muffler in my kit...just about able to check the piston by looking in the hole!
Sounds great. FYI I used the FT kit flywheel to replace my dinged up one on my OEM Stihl 440 and it was an exact match (it was the high flow lighter weight version Stihl put on to help keep my EPA muffler restricted saw cool). If you were to put my saw's pencil hole EPA muffler on an FT kit it might overheat if FT kit cooling fins etc not as big as my saws...doubt 460 muffler will overheat. One guy told me a 460 DP on my saw is kind of loud but adds 1/2 hp! I would rather keep it quiet.
Wish I knew for sure because cooling system includes flywheel fins, cylinder fins, covers etc...but on the FT flywheel it is the correct one. I do not think any problem because FT kit copies Stihl and the cooling system on Stihl. You would need to watch for overheating if you put a restrictive EPA muffler on it and the 460 on a440 is not so restrictive...seems like in between to extremes (FT kit muffler v EPA pencil hole muffler). You got the idea though. You may have to tweak carb hi jet when having mufflers is anther thought. Should help on noise anyhow.
Sounds like fun. I grew up on a tree farm and have done a bunch of wood/forest type of business. Run plenty of saws but not modified any so MustangMike is the guy for that. My FT plastics and flywheel are holding up and 440 label I glued back on did not fall off. I do not even really get any thrill out of cutting...just like the end results. The quicker I can cookie up a tree or whatever cutting I am doing the better...a modified would not drastically speed up the overall job time because I take too many breaks but I definitely would like my actual holding the saw cutting time part of the job over quicker and that is where a 462 is looking good. Picture is of oak tree I cookied up today...already have a bunch of it picked up. I have a bad back from lifting firewood in 2005 so I cookie my trees into firewood. Wood dries from the ends for the most part so cookies dry very quickly. I had two logsplitters, one could hook up to backhoe and the other one was a real nice unit but I sold them both because trying to lift sections of trees was too much for me. I usually use my 5 gal. pails of hydraulic fluid I have kicking around for equipment for bar oil..cost me about $5 gal. I have a bunch of bars from old saws and a bunch of Oregon chain from a store liquidation years ago $2-3 a chain so bar and chain costs not much and hydraulic fluid has been ok for years. Tomorrow I will finish cutting cookies and half the big ones and that tree will be totally gone and under cover before the snow and sleet come in tomorrow evening. I think a nice 462 is in future because it would reduce my actual chainsaw carrying time ...and be a blast to run. A modified 462 like MustangMike has would be the ultimate but just can not have the noise. I think you got a great saw project going on and I am really liking watching what you are doing with it.
No need for splitting and easy to handle and no splinters. The larger ones can easily be stood on end and cut in half or quarters etc if need be. All of it goes in woodstove so free heat and cooking. I had an outdoor woodboiler on a building I rented to college students and even had hot water hooked up to it...saved big dollars. Fuel and electricity were always big expenses here in Maine and going a lot higher now. I had a bandsaw mill and used to do up logs I would get off places I worked and make boards. The trees I am making into cookies for firewood now are on a future house lot and needed to come down. The hillside is ledge and trees were apt to fall down cause of wind. Everything wood gets used. Takes a little longer to cookie tree but then no splitting (one step process) and rapid drying of wood vs split and stack.I have other trees to do so hustling before deep snow.Lucked out and snow we had melted but more coming Tonite.
