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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
You sure - that sounds very high
Some how it is a gauge discrepancy. With a verified gauge I can kick until I am blue in the face and not get more than 195 on my slightly high compression set up. Given a 10% gain for altitude that would be ~215 psi at sea level. With the much larger bowl of the Aussie head, I am getting ~165-170 at my altitude. 240 psi will not run on our pump premium on anything I test with my gauge. 215 will not run on our pump premium without some issues.
The 195 would be in the range with what I am seeing. All these are slightly different as they are done individually and not on a CNC machine. As all the kits vary slightly because all the pre-porting(exhaust and rear transfer) is done by human hand and eye, it is not unusual for one to make slightly more or less compression than another. The exhaust height and power valve fit are all going to be slightly different. Most, all things being equal would take a dyno to measure the difference in output. I am porting an existing cylinder that is going to be 8mm wider when done. I want the ports very close so that I have less chance of compromising the lining when doing final clean up. Another area of discrepancy is that I have a bench motor that I use to measure all heads for machining. There is no guarantee that my bench motor is exactly the same as the riders motor. They will be very close but I have seen differences in what I measure on the bench versus what the rider is seeing on his motor. Husky195 is measuring a squish gap on the head I sent him that is almost .1mm tighter than I had on my bench motor. I don't question his measurement at all that is just the nature of these motors.
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