I forgot to add that you still have the RELIABILITY! The reliability is still there! When done properly ...a "Properly ported" cylinder does not de-grade the life of the engine while increasing the power. The important part to remember is that you have to consider your riding style. If you are looking for a "Over all" power gain that increases low end torque for crawling over stuff on the trail WITHOUT having to feather the clutch, hits with an EXTREMELY HARD mid range for acceleration, and pulls to a higher top end rpm for more speed, ...then a nice aggressive trail port is for you! Screw that "Drag port" sh#t. Get real with the kind of riding style you do and be honest with yourself. We all like to talk about what we did to our blasters, but you don't want to build something that falls on its face, because you built it for a riding style you don't ride, or use a " Dyno chart" from a given company that promises to give you 38 hp between 8,000 and 8,500 rpm, but doesn't do jack anywhere else in the rpm range. That's useless! One other thing... You can go to a bigger carb LATTER ON to get a bit more top end, but try out that stock VM26 Mikuni before you start spending money. I have porting, head re-chambering, transfer port to case matching, high compression,etc, and still run the factory oil injection with zero issues. I'm not saying you should run oil injection, I'm just saying that I do. Pre-mixing obviously works great too. The important thing to remember is PROPER JETTING!!! Very important! You will be going up at least 10 jet sizes depending on temperature, altitude, etc.
Also... take that extra little bit of time to leak test your engine. You learn something while doing this, and get piece of mind at the same time. Hope this helps.