All I meant was if you put two in and left space for the third, your air would be coming in from one side mostly. May mess with the fire a bit as the air may not travel very well to the other side where you left room for a future inlet. You could probably only do two inlets, but I would put them directly opposite from each other, which would screw up being able to throw in a third inlet.
Haha! I feel your pain Gusto. My first smoke didn't go so well either. I had lots of temperature issues and lots of bark (I tried throwing more wood in to increase temp). Unfortunately, I got coined with cooking for my family, so I had to pull the meat off early too. It ended up ok, but I would do lots of things differently after reading more on this forum. Starting with making the mods as suggested.
We're supposed to get some rain in KC this weekend, so I'll probably take the weekend to get as much of the mods done also. Since I won't be able to take the bike out...