• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

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2012 TE 511(street legal for CA)How do I Increase the horse PR?

Jeremy Lang

Jeremy Lang

Husqvarna
I was reading the Owners Manual for the TE 511 and it was suggesting that the street legal version of this bike is tuned down. It has 12:1 Vs 13:1 compresson. The oil changes on the street legal version are the same as a car(every 3k mi), While on the off road version are in much closer intervals. I'm wondering if there is something I can do to get a little more mid range torque in 4th and 5th gear with out increasing the compression or oil change intervals? Is there something I can take off (IE: smog eqpt.) or something I can bolt on ( IE: Ehaust or sprockets)? Do they make a chip for the bike?

My daily comute has streaches of freeway, over 60 this bike gets speed wobbles, would a steering dampner solve or aid at all? Thx in advance for your input!
 
I have the JD Jetting Tuner (Adjustable chip) and an FMF slip on. I also have a steering damper and a 46t rear spocket. I have removed the smog equip, including the O2 sensor. The jury is still out on the need for the damper, but the rest of my mods seemed to help power and freeway cruisibility. I have same accelartion as my buddy's moded ktm 525 on the freeway from 4th to 6th gear.....upto about 90 mph.
 
Jeremy Lang said:
I was reading the Owners Manual for the TE 511 and it was suggesting that the street legal version of this bike is tuned down. It has 12:1 Vs 13:1 compresson. The oil changes on the street legal version are the same as a car(every 3k mi), While on the off road version are in much closer intervals. I'm wondering if there is something I can do to get a little more mid range torque in 4th and 5th gear with out increasing the compression or oil change intervals? Is there something I can take off (IE: smog eqpt.) or something I can bolt on ( IE: Ehaust or sprockets)? Do they make a chip for the bike?

My daily comute has streaches of freeway, over 60 this bike gets speed wobbles, would a steering dampner solve or aid at all? Thx in advance for your input!
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SDPUTTER is right on.

As for the damper, I run ours (Motosportz) obviously and it works GREAT on this bike IMHO. Makes the bike so much more calm on the street. Lessens fatigue in the dirt. Its a inherently stable bike but the damper lest you loose the death grip and concentrate your efforts on line choice. Does for sure cure a bunch of that road wandering and loose feeling.

Picture of out damper setup on my TE511...

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Jeremy Lang said:
The oil changes on the street legal version are the same as a car(every 3k mi), While on the off road version are in much closer intervals.
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3000 miles is way to long for oil changes. A typical car holds about 4.5 quarts of oil and 511 holds about 1. If you divide 3k mi. by the ratio of quarts in the automobile (3000/4), it comes out to roughly 750 miles/quart. Off road, divide in half again to 375 miles.

Motorsportz makes very high quality add-ons, I fully recommend. Stabilizer, compression settings may help with high speed wobble or wheel balancers are pretty cheap and you can buy stick on weights which will help counter the rim lock offset. http://www.harborfreight.com/motorcycle-wheel-balancing-stand-98488.html

As stated above, after market header/silencer (FMF Megabomb & Q4/Powercore for TC449) + JD tuner. Don't decat your stock silencer if you are going to stay in CornHoleafornia, keep it in storage with your O2 sensor and charcoal canister.
 
Thx For the Awesome tips guys! I just ordered a motosportz dampner, and a Jd tuner. Can I run the JD Tuner with the stock exhaust?

I noticed I have a 51t rear sprocket stock. What does the 46t do in theory? What do I gain and what do I lose? I'm pretty happy with 1st-3rd. I'd like to be able to do stand up wheelies in 4th like my 03' YZF 450 use to do.

Am I asking to much to get 4th gear power wheelies, and a smooth 70 mph hwy cruise speed in 6th? I don't need to go faster then 90.
 
Something ive noticed about my bike is when blipping the throttle the rear of the bike rises so this would be pushing the front wheel down onto the road. This would explain why the front end can be harsh off road as it pushes down on the roygh stuff. With the bike derestricted the power of the bike turning the rear wheel with such force can counter this effect and wheelie the bike. Ive found the bike works better with more power off road and the comments above ditto this. With the rear under acceleration this is most probably why other ridees are lower there rear suspension by 4mm to stop thar rising effect. This is my theory.
 
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