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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

TC250 Is faster than some people think!

racerjake549

racerjake549

Husqvarna
AA Class
Some folks that write magazine reviews and some others alike, enjoy bashing on the TC250. The 2012 model for sure. I agree that it doesn't make the power of a KX right out of the box. It is a little odd in some other ways. This being said, my son and I decided to give a 2012 TC250 leftover a try. I had already been involved with removing the unnecessary spark arrester in the oem Achrapovic exhaust. Not sure what the difference is on a dyno but I'm gonna guess 2hp maybe. No matter what the dyno says it made a very noticeable difference!! After talking with an experienced Husky motor builder about the possibility of pulling a few more ponies from the red head I went with his #1 suggestion, a K&N air filter in conjunction with the pipe mod. A definite improvement in acceleration!
This weekend we race a Loretta Lynn Qualifier in Illinois. Due to bad weather up north the turn out was pretty large for our area. Over 500 entrees! We signed up in 250Limited. 53 riders in the class!! You have to make top 8 to advance to reagonals. First gate drop, who is a tight #2 into the first turn? Jake aboard TC250!! After 2 spills he still managed a 9th place finish. He stepped up the pace and finished 4th in moto 2. 7th overall so we are off to the regionals in June. Rode the 2 stroke class on his 2012 CR 125 against a sea of YZ250's and managed a 7th over all there too.
My point to all this is it is still more important how you ride what you ride not if it scores the highest on the dyno. TC250 is a potent weapon when in good hands. Plus, the close out deals that are currently available are crazy cheap. Don't forget the contingency bucks too!!
If anybody out there has any experience on successful motor mods on the 250 red head I would love to hear about it. image.jpg
 
Awesome and nice work. Jake used to mop up at the local track on his 2010 TC250. To bad he got hurt out there because he was really making people stand up and notice huskys out there. I had a 2010 TC250 I used for woods work and i thought it was fast. I know I could haul the mail on that bike. Should have kept it.
 
Motosportz said:
Awesome and nice work. Jake used to mop up at the local track on his 2010 TC250. To bad he got hurt out there because he was really making people stand up and notice huskys out there. I had a 2010 TC250 I used for woods work and i thought it was fast. I know I could haul the mail on that bike. Should have kept it.
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I think maybe you got rid of it because it was one of the pesky starters. If only you could try a Lectron on it.... Enquiring minds want to know.
 
racerjake549 said:
I had already been involved with removing the unnecessary spark arrester in the oem Achrapovic exhaust. Not sure what the difference is on a dyno but I'm gonna guess 2hp maybe. No matter what the dyno says it made a very noticeable difference!! After talking with an experienced Husky motor builder about the possibility of pulling a few more ponies from the red head I went with his #1 suggestion, a K&N air filter in conjunction with the pipe mod. A definite improvement in acceleration!
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what did you do for the pipe mod? drill the rivits and cut the S.A. out?
 
haulin husky7 said:
what did you do for the pipe mod? drill the rivits and cut the S.A. out?
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Yes I did, but most of the ones I had seen cut out were hatchet jobs. I removed the screen and all of the metal that it attached to so it is a nice smooth transision from inner pipe to tail piece. I have pictures but they are on my ipad. I will try to get them transferred. I think the K&N air filter added a little snap to it too.
 
Fellas,
I have been on the injured list for a while. Had back surgery about 5-6 weeks ago. Sort of on the mend. Was at the track with my son yesterday so he could get some seat time in. He had the pit bike so I decided to throw a leg over the 2012 TC250 and roll the pit area a little bit. WOW****************************************! That is one NICE motorcycle!!! It is silky smoooooth! Fine european quality feel! I have ridden several late model MX 250's and there are none smoother than this! I invited a few other race dads to take it for a spin. One came back with grit in his teeth and didnt want to give it back. Nice bike.

I would like to talk to anyone out there that has done a motor build or any other motor improvements to their TC250.
 
Next time you are @ Halls, talk to Steve. He's running the GET stuff and some other things.

I know his last TC250, flew. Just a thought.
 
Congrats to your son!:thumbsup:

A word of warning on K&N airfilters.....They pass dirt and destroy motors. They ruin valve coatings and valveseats. They cause the premature wear of pistons, cylinders, and rings. The company even tries to convince yoiu otherwise and includes a little sheat saying this is a myth (obviously other mechanics agree with me and word has gotten back to them). But it doesn't matter what I say, the proof is ON THE THROTTLE PLATE. Without exception, every unit with a K&N has fine dust particles on the throttle plate, some very heavy accumulation. I see it primarily on ATV's and streetbikes (never get any moto bikes w K&N). TONS of atv's brought in that "won't start". Low compression, K&N airfilter, dirt in intake tract, ruined head and topend.

So be forwarned. I pay for my house and family as a lead tech at a busy multi-line dealership. K&N's ruin motors, I have seen it over 20 times. I wouldn't run one if it made roost turn to fire.

Your son sounds talented. A K&N will not improve his results, but it just may hurt them.

There is nothing superior to an oiled-foam element. Buy several and sevice them before they are caked. Your motor will thank you.

Hope to qualify and meet you guys at Loretta's!:thumbsup: Good luck and success to your son!
 
racerjake549 said:
Yes I did, but most of the ones I had seen cut out were hatchet jobs. I removed the screen and all of the metal that it attached to so it is a nice smooth transision from inner pipe to tail piece. I have pictures but they are on my ipad. I will try to get them transferred. I think the K&N air filter added a little snap to it too.
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Could you post those pics ? I just bought a 13 TC250 and would like to try this mod
Scott
 
Scott Stanford said:
Could you post those pics ? I just bought a 13 TC250 and would like to try this mod
Scott
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huskyfrk said:
Odd, K & N's are supplied on earth moving equipment.
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I have heard horror stories like what MotoMark36 is talking about. I am sure they are true. It has a lot to do with how you take care of your air filter and what you oil it with. I have 2 diesel trucks that have had k&n filters for years. 285000 on one and 265000 on the other and they still haul! I have ran them on many cars and bikes and have never had any motor issues. I clean them properly and oil them properly and install them properly. Have clocked about 40 hours on TC250 and doing fine.
I service filter and change oil after every trip to the track though. A lot of folks dont.
 
If you want proof, all you have to do is hold a K&N air filter up to light. You will be shocked to see the amount of light shining through the huge gaps in the filter media. There was a guy a while back somewhere on the web that cut apart various air filters and took an identically sized piece of filter media from each and mounted them in a frame with an identically sized piece of coffee filter behind it and applied a vacuum to it. After a specified period of time, he took out the coffee filter paper and showed pictures of them. The coffee filter from the K&N filter was filthy.
 
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