• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

  • 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

Calling all 2013 TE449 owners - Would you buy it again?

Wow that is a crazy bike. It had to be expensive sourcing a 449 Husky motor. What made you go this route? Sounds awesome though :)
 
Big Timmy said:
I think this thread is great guys.

I'm not confused at all by all these different opinions.

I run the Husqvarna TC 449, 13 to 1 compression engine in a BMW G450X chassis. I run the BMW ECU with the original BMW injection unit and the powerplug. Its got the close ratio, 5 speed gearbox. Very solid gearbox. Will take abuse all day. I have swapped the forks out and set it up with KTM 20MM offset trees and WP 4860 forks set up by Racetech, I run the KTM front wheel as well. Rear shock has been reworked by Dicks Suspension. I run a Speedbrain seat. GPR steering stablizer. Leo Vince' full exhaust. Zip-Ty valve cover breather and my own baffled oil recovery tank with the Zip-Ty oil filler cap. This is an awesome bike, the engine is rock solid has only 12 hours on it.

My BMW engine which was removed for this swap has 133 hours. That engine is getting the big bore kit now that its sitting on the bench and the wide ratio gearbox it has will have its specific usage depending on where I go riding. I have about 5 sets of plastics and different graphics on a few sets. I ride the high desert in Southern Arizona. I can make it look like what ever I want due to this variety of graphics and it always turns heads. I think the Kymco engine is a piece of great quality engineering. All bikes and engines have their own idiosyncrosies. Nothing is perfect!

The clutch on the BMW is not the same as the Huskys. I'm not talking just about the Husky's having its hydraulic actuation either. Trust me! The steels and fiber plates are about .015 thicker on the BMW engine. The over all thickness of the plate set and basket depth is appoximately .170 difference if I remember. The plate count of each clutch is the same (6 of each) so is the final drive plate and diaphram spring cover plate.

I run 14/48 gearing and these engines are bulletproof. it will pull 4th gear power wheelies easy. I don't mind at all having a vintage recently installed "Husqvarna" sticker on my BMW. It keeps the Nay-sayers confused and me laughing! Oh and I'm 54 and have owned nothing but Maico's during my early years of riding except for a few years I rode quads for something different.
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That's what I call making it your own! Holy Huskabeemer Batman!
 
I picked up the engine like new on ebay last year. The 2011 TC 449 bike was parted out when nearly new, it had been wrecked with fork and front wheel damage. So the rest of the bike was dissasembled and sold for cash. Fairly cheap in fact. I bought the engine for 1610.00 shipped. I made that offer and it was accepted.. First thing I did was install a new Torque limiter and swapped the engine in to the BMW. I now have a few old Torque limiters marked with how many hours use and this particular one removed to do some Newton Meter breakaway testing. I have a new one in the box for the BMW engine as well.

Hopefully the Zip-Ty breather mod will make the Torque limiters last longer. So far so good. I haven't rode it that much as I am waiting for a torn rotator cuff surgery from a work injury.

"Zip-Ty if your reading this", can you reflash the BMW ECU to the level "3" powersetting? This power level was developed by BMW for the Husky's and the ECU's are closely the same aren't they. Having more horsepower is always good. It may get you in trouble but more times than not it will get you out of trouble as well.

"Oh" and I call it a "BMWKTMSKYVARNA" but the name Huskybeemer is cool too.

I never leave anything stock. Believe it or not. This is probably the most mildly modified dirt bike I have ever owned!!
 
Its a daily rider but just a 2 into 1 pipe, K&N filter. Not much else. I've sworn to leave it alone. Here's a pic of my last pro street hardtail bike I scratch built though. It was in V-Twin Mag in May of 07'. I included a picture of my 1966 Plymouth Belvedere, that also gets alot of street time as well. I know this is off subject but its a barrel of fun though,034.JPG054.JPG if you like this sort of thing.
 
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Bryce said:
Upgrading the ecu to map #3 will most likely fix the stalling and whatever other issues you have. $40 from ZipTy or your dealer might be able to do it.
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Thanks for the advice Bryce, not sure that I need map 3, this bike is insane enough for me at this stage, my understanding is it is a 'wilder' map, possibly suited to the younger braver man? Stalling is probably more due to the riders ability in my case!
I am in Tasmania, Australia, and my local dealer, Motorworks have been very helpful so far.
 
Elsmicko said:
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Thanks for the advice Bryce, not sure that I need map 3, this bike is insane enough for me at this stage, my understanding is it is a 'wilder' map, possibly suited to the younger braver man? Stalling is probably more due to the riders ability in my case!
I am in Tasmania, Australia, and my local dealer, Motorworks have been very helpful so far.
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It might give it a bit more power, but from what i've heard, it mainly just makes the bike run better. Also, I have my air screw at almost 3 turns out with my idle at around 1900 or so rpm and it never stalls. These things seem to be finicky if the idle is set too low.
 
Bryce said:
It might give it a bit more power, but from what i've heard, it mainly just makes the bike run better. Also, I have my air screw at almost 3 turns out with my idle at around 1900 or so rpm and it never stalls. These things seem to be finicky if the idle is set too low.
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It will run better with smoother powerband, idle better AND more power...
 
Big Timmy said:
"Zip-Ty if your reading this", can you reflash the BMW ECU to the level "3" powersetting? This power level was developed by BMW for the Husky's and the ECU's are closely the same aren't they. Having more horsepower is always good. It may get you in trouble but more times than not it will get you out of trouble as well.
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The ecu's are the same, but the programming is different. Powercommander 5 is the best ecu for these engines.

When you get bored with your Huskabeemer -> I think you should strip down your husky engine and add a few key parts to your BMW engine, replace the cylinder and piston with the 511, re-chamber + flow the TC head with TE cams. I have been able to lower the powerband from 5500 to 3500 rpms, 1000 lower than the te510, but where it drops off at 50bhp@8200, the 511 continues to climb to 60bhp@9700 which makes it very linear. With the cases split, we can add my hollow chamber oil flow back mod which recirculates oil directly to the oil reservoir from the top of the engine. :)
 
Bryce said:
It might give it a bit more power, but from what i've heard, it mainly just makes the bike run better. Also, I have my air screw at almost 3 turns out with my idle at around 1900 or so rpm and it never stalls. These things seem to be finicky if the idle is set too low.
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I'll have to see if map 3 is available to my dealer. I'm liking the sound of it!
 
With a few minor adjustments and updates you get one hell of a bike. These things are a steal. I got my 2013 for $7,000 OTD in June. Even with a few mods I am around $7,500 total into bike. Have not had the oil puking issue yet as I got some good advice on oil levels from Bills in Oregon...super cool group of folks up there! Even if additional mods become necessary I am waaaaayyyy below the cost of a comparable KTM. Love this bike!
 
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