• Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Sweden - About 1988 and older

  • Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

'83 Husqvarna 250cr cylinder

The change over to LQ allows to run more port timing without damage to the engine, because of heat that's generated.

My early '84 250wr AC has the cr cylinder. She's a tad more pipey over the '83 250wr. It's still a 250 but more fun to ride.

On my '81 250cr the last of the 70's engine. I raised the exhaust port and polished the port. I knife edged the rib in the transfer ports. I also port matched both transfer ports and funneled them more so the flow (gas mix) has a easier path when it starts to flow into the transfer ports. You can see that some cylinders in the transfer ports are uneven do to the casting. I funnel or flare the beginning of the transfer port and blend it into the port then polish the entry section. You can make changes to the rib in the transfer port too. I knife edge it and change the straight knife to a half round open c type shape. This keeps the forced gasses more to the middle of the port for even flow. I also advance the timing a tad to enhance the port timing. I run a 53T rear sprocket with a 11T front. With the UFO installed in the carb slide. Now this does narrow the power band but she's an animal on the mid to top end.

To me the 390cr has a wider power band from the bottom to the top that bigger bore doesn't like going slow. She will chug, chug when it's close to idle. But it has plenty of front wheel lifting power in any gear just twist it.
 
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