• Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Sweden - About 1988 and older

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Twin shock 4T exhaust

Kartwheel68

Kartwheel68

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I'm just kicking this idea around. The later single shock four strokes are fairly easy to find, if I were to get one of those and try to put the engine in a twin shock frame, can you get an exhaust aftermarket? What other obstacles would I have?
 
I only have a 1988 model 4 stroke so what I post is just from what I have read on here. At one point I had the engine out and put various other engines in, kind of dry fit. I also have placed the 88 engine or a 99 one in earlier two cycle frames.

If you mean to put an air cooled mono shock four cycle into a two cycle dual shock frame the frame will need modified for more carb room or an s shaped manifold created or perhaps some fuel injection system needing less vertical space. Even if you have the 4 cycle air cooled dual shock frame (factory modified for more space) the mono shock engine air cooled has the carb attach to the head differently to take advantage of the more room of that frame. One guy as I recall from Africa posted three engines that showed the differences. I guess the third was the liquid cooled one. Then you have the swingarm pivot bolt diameter. I put the 1999 te410 engine in an 1983 two cycle frame and it looked like it would need at least a 4 inch s manifold. Air box may get involved as well.
 
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Not sure you must modify the frame for the carb.
510 from Flavio Solda with a special connection between carb and head !
 
The reason I am asking is here in the US we have a car rally series, and about several years ago they added a motorcycle class. I have always kicked around the idea of riding one on a two stroke vintage bike, something like a 430WR or 500XC. Somewhere along the line they banned two strokes, the event is on public roads so all the vehicles must be tagged and street legal, they say they banned two strokes because they dont want to bring attention from local law enforcement because "dirt bikes" are in their event, but the motorcycle classes are full of tagged Honda XRs, KTM XC-Ws, modern Husqvarna TEs (the Italian engines, not the single cam Swedish engines), etc. I want to kick the stuffing out of the posers on their KTM/BMW "adventure" bikes on a ratty old "vintage" bike so I am looking for an older KTM, preferably one of the early four strokes with the Rotax engines, or a twin shock Husky, although an '80s single shock Husky would be fine also.

I found a '95 610TE locally, isnt that frame essentially the same as the '85-'88 single shock frame? It should be a lot easier to put that engine in an '85-'88 frame than a twin shock frame, right? I suppose to most of these folks, a '95 Husky 610 would be "vintage" but I would prefer it to be a Swedish build chassis, just because.
 
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