Your right there nothing beats the sound of a strong running 2T...But sadly a saw is nothing like a bike or 2T Victa for that matter as they don't have a head that can be removed ,well some very old saw's you can but now days no...To get more compression on a saw now days they cut the squish band and drop the cylinder to up compression and this also keeps very mellow less than stock port timing numbers its very on the safe side but with a little porting they are a very strong more or less stock saw but on the very safe side as in won't blow up! lol.....Yeah an 088 has 8.7HP thats not bad I say they dont have much room to work in....
