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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

My custom TE511 muffler

Motosportz

Motosportz

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I have some Barrett mufflers left over form a project and an extra TE pipe so I hacked and maimed them together. I like the smallness, the weight and how tucked it it is. I do not like that it is far louder and seems to run lean now. Will be testing it and see whats up maybe this evening. I will also be swapping the goofy gold end cap out for black.

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TROFFER88 said:
looks pretty good
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Motosportz said:
I have some Barrett mufflers left over form a project and an extra TE pipe so I hacked and maimed them together. I like the smallness, the weight and how tucked it it is. I do not like that it is far louder and seems to run lean now. Will be testing it and see whats up maybe this evening. I will also be swapping the goofy gold end cap out for black.

Check it out...

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Interesting.
I had a Barrett on my 2009 TE450 and it was OK (just) for loudness.
The product is first class and I will be curious for your comments after your testing.
It would be interesting to see how much louder than the Husky Akropovic can it is.
In the meantime my Akropovic (Australia) is peeeerfect !
 
I have used them before. I have one on my FJ1200 (sounds good) and one on my SM610 worked well and sounded good. Seems louder on this bike. But then again this bike was SUPER quiet with the stock big can.

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So got a good rip in on it yesterday. First off i was like "this is not going to work", it is kind of loud, bike was popping and stalling, hard starting, bike did not seem much more powerful. As i rode it more I got used to the sound, it's more that is was SOOO quiet before. The more i rode it the better it ran as the EFI sorted it out. Then at a short break I disconnected the battery for a bit which is supposed to reset the adaptive settings on the EFI map. It started and ran noticeably better. The more i rode it the better it worked. After a few miles... and getting into the throttle further... WOW. huge difference in power. Lots more bark right of idle, lots of gain in the mid and revs out harder / quicker. the bike went from docile but fast kitten to a bark and rip monster. Feels like a TXC510 now, but one that revs quicker. Once running 90% correct I was not sure i wanted the more power. It does change the personality of the bike slightly from EZ accommodating smooth wonder machine to CRF like bark and ripper. Front end snaps right up in almost any gear and I'm running a 46 rear for the street. Will spin the tire at will and feels like it has about 5+ more HP in the mid with a healthy increase in torque too. It is actually more gain than i had expected. Its a big change. Kind of like the seat, which i first i was unsure if i would like and now love, the power, while taking away some of the smooth accommodating EZ to ride feeling is pretty darn FUN. I found myself doing big power slides, huge multi gear wheelies and hooligan riding. For sure gave the bike some attitude and added a bunch of RIP. For tight woods riding and winter brown ice (slick clay) and stock TE pipe is probably better. For open areas, MX, blasting around, and summer riding the open pipe is FUN. It really does pull much harder bottom to top and revs much quicker. Roll-ons a gear or two high reward with hard pulling, the kind that you know are going to wear out chains and tires faster. The mid flat explodes and wheelies, makes steering with the rear much EZer. Top end is much improved but I hardly ever went there as you are already going to fast because of the huge mid. Semi short shift and keep it in that wide an glorious mid range and look out. Crap happens FAST.

I was expecting a gain but not this much. It's huge. And fun. I have a quiet cap for this setup and am going to install it. The bike is on the edge of being to loud (although buddy Joe said it was not offensive and still quieter than a buddies KTM530 which is almost to loud) and is running lean. the quiet cap will bring the DB's down and probably fix some of the leaness. I thought because of the engine design this motor might never have the MX450 type rip and snap but I found it is in there, just choked off by the muffler. Dual personality motor, you choose your weapon.
 
BTW, forgot to add, the increase in power was so much I actually had to stiffen the rear suspension up as i was hitting things harder / moving faster.

the Damper, Seat and muffer all were real nice improvements. I think i will get the suspension done next and the bike will be unbelievable then.
 
I noticed the same thing when I was at the Demo days at Glen Helen. They had a stock 449 which had real smooth power and a ton of engine braking. Then I found a powered up 449 with the akro exhaust and that thing pulled much harder and longer than the stock one. Also the engine braking was greatly reduced and was a lot nicer to ride.
 
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