• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    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!

'14 TE310r Titanium Leo Vince Pipe

Shovelhead85

Shovelhead85

Husqvarna
AA Class
I wanted to let other red-head TE310 (& TE250?) owners know that the Leo Vince Titanium pipe, made for 2010-12 TEs (and maybe TXCs, TCs) can be made to fit our bikes fairly easy. That's the good news.

The better news is that you can get these pipes brand new (in the box) on eBay for $129.95 (+$30 shipping) here: ebay vendor
but you better hurry... there was 10 left when I bought mine 2 weeks ago; now there's 3 left.

You will have to hog out the front mounting bracket about a 1/4" (eh, even less- 5mm) and the carbon fiber bracket really wants to live on the inside of the big cast mount on the subframe- I took the aluminum insert in the outboard rubber mount off and strong-armed it to the outside. Tire clearance was going to a factor: on my worn, stock Michelin I had about 6mm clearance; the Mountain Hybrid I have waiting to be mounted was going to be an issue.

I took the bike for a quick 10 mile loop of single track and had no issues. Weirdly this thing is quieter (!) than the stock L.V. ss/aluminum pipe (the silencer comes with the longer insert mounted and a shorter one in the accessory kit; both have USFS spark arrestor screens). It is almost THREE POUNDS lighter! (7.36lbs vs 4.78lbs). I want to say it has more power, but I can't be positive- it might not. It seems to move the power down a little lower in the rpm range (where I ride), but I might have lost a 1/2hp above 10,000rpms. That's just a WAG- maybe it's because it's quieter and I've actually gained something. It still wheelies through all 6 gears when I power-shift (I'm geared l-o-o-o-o-o-w).

I will add to this thread if I find more positives and negatives to report. I wanna see how it does when I crash. Also, I am keeping an eye on the CF bracket too (btw: Husky's retail price is over $100 for this bracket alone; and similar pipes go from $600 to an astronomical $1400)- but for now I want to get this post out there in case others want to take advantage of this deal.

I'll put some pics in the next post.
 
Would this require any changes to the mapping or is it just a straight swap (other than the slight mod to the bracket)?
 
Jrockrat said:
Would this require any changes to the mapping or is it just a straight swap (other than the slight mod to the bracket)?
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Well, it takes a re-mapping to get the stock pipe to perform... so I guess I should say it'll run on whatever map you're running the stock Leo Vince pipe on. And if you're running the stock ultra-lean map... maybe it'll run slightly better.

1 pipe left; do not hesitate.
 
Will work best with the open pipe map.
A 2010 tc250 muffler slipped right onto my 2013 te310r with no mods.

I used brackets from a 449/511 to reuse the heat guard. Alternatively, you can buy a heat shield that's suited to the older bikes and uses the subframe bolt for mounting.
 
Hey, you guys that bought one for your red-head.... try mounting it first before hitting the bracket with the rat-tail file. You might get lucky and be close enough; besides it's a lot of work to hog out that doubled stainless steel bracket by hand. A die grinder (or in my case: a buddy with a vertical mill :)) is much better.

And be sure to report back on your results & impressions. These pipes pop up occasionally (at $200+ though) and somebody might be interested in doing this in the future. I saw that the Motorcycle Superstore had 'em marked DOWN to $532.99 from $649...MSRP is much higher.

Here's the thread where I first read about the pipes:
TXC310r exhaust post
but I was more interested at the time in the red Acerbis seat for the 250/310... (actually, I still am: Anybody got any info???)

Took me a while to jump on the pipe deal- I'm still a little astounded that they lasted 2 months.
 
LandofMotards said:
Looks cool, havent started it up yet. Bought a new battery but can't find my battery tray lol
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You'll probably want to go with the smaller insert; that way you can maybe intimidate the other motards. Unless you wanna sneak up on 'em. This pipe is pretty quiet.

LandofMotards said:
Having a 12 te250 i had the same mounting issues so I'd imagine any black head can be made to fit on the red
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hmmm, I thought this pipe was made for your bike. No? 'Cause I was wondering if my fitment issues were more imaginary than real (hence the advice to dry fit before modifying).

Each ride I take I'm more impressed with this pipe.
 
Yeah it says my bike on it. It fit but were the mid pipe meets the head pipe the bolt holes didn't line up perfect and like you said the carbon hanger wanted to sit in the back rather then the front like the old one. It fit in the end but it took a lot lol
 
I did a test fitting for mine, tonight. It seemed like it was going to have the same problem, but I shoved a screwdriver through the mounting grommet and the mounting hole, and just levered it forward a small amount. Once I did that, I was able to push it enough to get the mounting bolt through. As it is rubber mounted, there is some play, so I doubt that it'll end up shearing the bolt.

I haven't fastened the CF mount yet, and I can't help but wonder why they made it a single sided mount, rather than having it on both sides, like the stock exhaust.
 
AndrewS said:
I did a test fitting for mine, tonight. It seemed like it was going to have the same problem, but I shoved a screwdriver through the mounting grommet and the mounting hole, and just levered it forward a small amount. Once I did that, I was able to push it enough to get the mounting bolt through....
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Yeah- when I noticed the TC's have a similar mount on the subframe, I wondered if you could just "make" it fit. Our mid-pipe is a bit longer than TC's (& TCX's ?) I think, but with the rear mount being "slide-able" on the new silencer it's not much of an issue

AndrewS said:
...I haven't fastened the CF mount yet, and I can't help but wonder why they made it a single sided mount, rather than having it on both sides, like the stock exhaust.
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Probably to provide a clamping force around the silencer, since the clamp is a separate item, and not a welded-on (titanium!) tab like on our stock pipes (either way- you need a way to resist torque on the pipe, while providing support). And I'm glad they did it this way, because a permanent mount would mean more alignment problems for red head owners. It might be lighter, too. :thumbsup:
 
Finally got mine all bolted up, and out for a ride last weekend. The install went pretty smoothly. I initially had the CF mount on the inside, but your mention of clearance issues persuaded me to move it to the outside.

Only concern I have is that the instructions show a metal washer with a piece that goes through the grommet on the rear mount. I'm pretty sure I didn't receive that piece, and I don't see it in the pic you posted of the hardware you received.

My concern is that it would take some of the stress off the CF mount, since that mount would be pricey to replace, as you've indicated above.

Performance wise, I thought I noticed a bit more top end power, but hard to really say without a back to back comparison. Obviously the weight savings are nice.

Definitely happy with my purchase. Thanks again for this thread!
 
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