• 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.

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Smart Carb

Aside from the big bucks required, it looks like a great carb. Dirt Bike Mag article compared it to having fuel injection when considering extreme elevation changes while riding. Plus the ease of tuning is impressive. I recently spent over $100 on jets and several hours tuning a 38mm VM for a 73 450.

As far as vintage iron goes, I'd say that it will work fine on any of the reed valve bikes but I'm not sure on earlier non-reed rides. Heres what the mfg. web site said regarding application:

36, 38, and 40mm SC2 SmartCarbs are designed to replace conventional carburetors in 2-stroke applications from 125cc up to 500cc or more. They are a direct fit in applications originally equipped with Keihin PE, PJ, PWK and Mikuni VM and TM series carburetors of similar sizes.

If your bike came with the VM carb you should be okay, although I do understand your need for confirmation with a price tag like that.
 
I'm interested to hear also that has someone tried and how it performs vs. well tuned old school carb.
 
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