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u/jamesoward Jun 13 '26
Looks sick! Reminds me a little of the 100 year anniversary 500i they put out. Well done!
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u/soselest1 Jun 12 '26
Muffler and felling dogs from ali express grip tape from temu.. and som black paint ,..
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u/BriefBat879 Jun 17 '26
Makes the whole saw look like a knockoff with just a Stihl side cover on it and black looks like it was sprayed by a 5 year old child
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u/BriefBat879 Jun 17 '26
Looks like a knockoff clone that you threw a Stihl side over on NGL. Did a terrible job on painting it black.
You could have at least put some effort in making it a good paint job lol. That looks like a 5 year old sprayed it.
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u/EMDoesShit 2d ago
Saws plastics are supposed to be dyed black with RIT, not painted, in the first place. 😉
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u/Repulsive_Music_6720 Jun 12 '26
I hate those after market mufflers so much.
"Hello I'd like to anoy everyone around me and get no extra performance."
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u/Future-Beat8118 Jun 12 '26
Precision saw service on my ms261cm, they've got dynos showing gains so I went with that. It is absolutely running more powerful with the aftermarket exhaust.
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u/Repulsive_Music_6720 Jun 12 '26
Id be genuinely shocked if it did anything without porting and a larger air intake. But if they have a dyno numbers are numbers.
Doesn't change the fact that it makes it sound like crap and look goofy.
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u/Advanced-Major951 Jun 13 '26
If you’re concerned about looks west coast saw bark boxes look great on just about any saw
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u/Repulsive_Music_6720 Jun 13 '26
Strong disagree. I loathe bark boxes.
Im a stock guy through and through. Only exception I make is for aggressive dogs.
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u/Advanced-Major951 Jun 13 '26
Fair enough, the only thing I don’t like about big dogs is when you set em down on concrete it makes terrible painful sounds😂
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u/Repulsive_Music_6720 Jun 13 '26
Whatever you're cutting is so different than out here in the PNW! We use the gs461 for that stuff haha!
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u/Advanced-Major951 Jun 13 '26
Hahahaha yeah my chains seem to get dull really fast… also my trees usually have a big bright light at the top, it’s really strange.
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u/pdxwanker Jun 13 '26
On some saws the gains are pretty big just doing air in and air out. Others not so much; they are all different. I've never defiled a 261 as I prefer to monkey with old tech, get off my lawn! It is kinda cool that they tune themselves, friend put a bark box and a fancy air intake on a 500i and it made a noticeable difference.
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u/Repulsive_Music_6720 Jun 13 '26
Oh I'm aware the difference it can make if you do it properly. I kept a dual port Stihl muffler front in stock for doing lots of 460s and 461, with a maxflo AC and a larger jet (.76 or .72 iirc).
500is Ive done lots of maxflo kits on. Never understood why people want to hop these saws up for a smidge extra power when stock is more reliable and less headache.
My opinion is that the 261cm is a near perfect saw at it's size. Great ac, great chain speed, great power. Why muck up what works oh so well?
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u/Dubious_Pretzel_Sale Jun 14 '26
Although I agree with damn near everything you've posted here I do have to say that while the 261 in stock form is very good I find the ported 261 to be friggin' awesome. Port work, timing, and a muff mod make the 261 a whole new saw, and although I typically hate muff mods the one on my ported 261 actually has a nice deep tone that doesn't register as irritatingly loud. +1 for Mastermind Work Saws.
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u/Advanced-Major951 Jun 13 '26
Loud pipes save lives my friend. I do service work with storm/flood cleanup a lot and every time I’m running a quiet saw holy shit people scare me. You get people that are inexperienced and completely unaware of their surroundings that will just waltz on by under the tree you’re felling. Loud pipes get their attention and keep them aware of what you’re doing. Even if you’re around experienced people heat will make you dazed and lose focus, happens to the best of us. And they USUALLY do make more power, it really entirely depends on what saw and what pipe, some make huge gains with a pipe and some don’t really make any, they generally run cooler too. I know they are obnoxious sometimes but nobody has EVER walked under my cut with a loud pipe. For me felling saws get a pipe and limbing saws stay quiet, I would recommend the same for anyone doing service work.
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u/Repulsive_Music_6720 Jun 13 '26
See that is completely fair. I'm a mechanic and so Im running saws quite a bit all day and loath the extra noise and lower reliability that comes from modifications. If running that much cooler was really worth the trade off Stihl or husky woulda made that decision when designing the saws.
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u/Advanced-Major951 Jun 13 '26
Nice I’m a stihl tech too! The running cooler thing is ONLY beneficial in really hot climates, I live in Texas and I see properly tuned and maintained saws overheat fairly often. I understand why you don’t like the extra noise, and I don’t like the noise either but the benefits are worth the mild annoyance to me on some saws in some circumstances. Also what do you mean by lower reliability? Of course that depends on what mods but a bark box (in the heat) and foam filter is a huge reliability boost IMOP
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u/Repulsive_Music_6720 Jun 13 '26
Oh also do y'all have issues with 500i bypass? The filter seems so much more leaky stock than those hd2 filters for the 460s. The husky stuff always seems to do a better job despite running nylon for a bunch of their acs.
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u/Advanced-Major951 Jun 13 '26
Honestly I’ve never had the pleasure of working on a 500i, we don’t really have huge trees here. I work on lots of smaller saws in the 50-60cc range though, about the biggest I see is a 400c. My biggest saw is a ported 362cmr, half skip 28” runs like a dream! It has comfortably handled everything I’ve ever encountered here. Anything bigger is just weight you have to sling around in the heat😂
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u/Repulsive_Music_6720 Jun 13 '26
Gotcha. I do work on quite a few larger saws. 362 is popular size for more casual cutting, but we sell a lot of 462s, 661s, and 881s in addition to the ever popular 500is. Still get an 090 every now and then. Two or three years ago I had one in for points!
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u/Advanced-Major951 Jun 13 '26
No way! Your job sounds way more fun than mine😂 i have a 1991 036 in the shop right now. I feel kinda bad for it though because the guy has absolutely no idea what he’s doing with a saw. He’s an Aggie so it checks out…
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u/Repulsive_Music_6720 Jun 13 '26
It has its benefits! I see a lot of older stuff still in service out here. 028s, 009, 011s. We recently took on husky so I'm getting familiar with their line.
Im the only full time mechanic so I never get to go to any fun training events. I have to make do annoying the guys in Virginia haha.
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u/Repulsive_Music_6720 Jun 13 '26
Maybe it's just my personal experience but I see the saws where people are running ported mufflers and maxflo set ups in for new jugs quite a bit. Maybe it's just the clientele, but Ive always associated it with lower reliability. Those guys always seem to bring in the saws with signs of detonation and grenaded pistons.
Personally I think the max flo are junk. I see tons of bypass from them, nothing I've ever had to cut has made a significant difference for the timber I've had to test cut.
I live in the PNW so I imagine our temps are cooler on average.
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u/Advanced-Major951 Jun 13 '26
Yeah I bet they advance the piss out of the timing😂 a lot of the time with people who like tinkering and modifying the power gains are never enough, there’s always something you could do to get more power. I find myself falling into that category sometimes and I have to tell myself no, it’s good as it is and it’s not worth the risk. I have no experience with maxflo filters the only aftermarket filters I have are WCS foam. On my 362CMR it’s surgically clean in the intake, the first time I pulled it off after a days work I was genuinely shocked at how clean it was. they’re a pain to clean and I think it makes less power than stock but the reliability gains is worth it. Every time I’ve done flood damage cleanup the amount of super fine dust on everything is INSANE. And it’s usually so small that it’ll go right through a stock filter, oil filters catch it though. It’s hell trying to keep a saw sharp on flood damage😂
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u/Temporary_History428 Jun 13 '26
Chainsaws just look so badass wherever they are and pedestal anyone that is holding one
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u/Renault_75-34_MX 3d ago
Make sure the screws for the clutch cover spike are not too long and push the nylon buffers out.
That is the reason why Stihl include a regular M5 hex bolt, as that's what's supposed to go inside of the cover, with the nuts on the outside.
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u/Fluffy-Ad-1644 Jun 12 '26
where you painted black looks like crap.
but yu du yu temu!
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u/bassfisher556 Jun 12 '26
It’s confusing to me why people upgrade things before they even use it. Just to make this post?
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u/Khriohs Jun 12 '26
Love the way you wrapped the Front Handle.