I tell my boys all the time "Perception is reality" irregardless of what the intent was. I have often deleted post before hitting the send button after reflecting on what it would stir up.
I applaud Randy, Tree Monkey,Simon,Dennis and Terry for taking porting to the next level, acutally doing machine work that is consisent, accurate and most importantly repeatable. Randy and others have shared their work in detail, no big secrets, allowing others to either do it themselves or have the confidence they are sending it to someone with a machinist background, the days of having port work done by a guy with just a dremel tool is by and large over, most are capable of doing that themselves if they read all the post on here. The bar has simply been raised from where it was two years ago. Most are capable of doing a piston and cylinder swap, it's easy peasy, Randy is breaking ground with the option of providing a customer a ported, blue printed after market cylinder, the way I look at it, it is far from the way it came from him, all the obvious defects have been removed/re-worked, I have no problem believing after his massaging it would outperform most if not all stock set up's. Don't know the exact pricing but I'll bet it would save a guy a 100.00, save more than half that in shipping so the savings might be even more. Someone has to be the pioneer in any endeavor.
I do think a poster had it right, Brad should hook up with after market supplier and work with them to make a product that meets his specs, it would be a service to the chainsaw community, lots of profit potential there. 20 porting jobs will buy a ticket to Tawian or China, believe me from expierence if they can mfg to Cummins and Mercedes standards they can meet Brad's, they can make any quality you want, you just have to pay for it.
