No bullets, just a question. They are much easier to dodge.
I know that there are plenty of sharks in the water, but I don't think that treating everything that you don't want to hear like a personal attack will improve the situation.
The bottom line is that you are taking a nifty stock saw and getting more power out of it. That's awesome, and it is fun to watch.
We both know that you will catch crap on here no matter what you do. My only issue is with your claim that your way of doing it is the best way of doing it, because I don't think that anyone could conclude that from what I have seen. I don't have any data to the contrary, but it does not appear that the supporting data are there either.
So again, from what I gather, on the 261, you basically started with something that worked on a different saw (441), got poor results, and the only way to recover from that was to hog out the intake, which led you to the conclusion that hogging out the intake is the best way to go.
My question is whether or not that is a reasonable assessment of the process. You are, obviously, welcome to your opinion...I am just trying to sort out how you got there.