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

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    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.

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2013 TE449 Gearing

image.jpg I really appreciate everyone chiming in on this thread, but the topic has changed from gearing to tuning. All the talk about "Race Map II" made me wonder if the dealership added the power up plug that I requested when I purchased the TE449. I searched the forums and could not find much about the plug hidden under the CPU, so I thought I would make this easier for first time owners of a 2013 TE.
I found the plug and immediately noticed that the jumper plug was not in place.image.jpg
I made a jumper out of a small piece of solid core wire.
Then just plugged it into the sockets labeled 1 and 2.image.jpg
I put the cover back over the plug and tucked it back under the CPU and cranked up the bike. Viola! The TE is now in Race Map II. Time for a test ride.image.jpg
OK, there is definitely a seat of the pants difference in horse power, and it will now run up to 90mph quickly! I can't wait to see how it feels on the trail since I only road tested it.
I may still experiment with gearing, but the bike seems to pull 65 or 70mph without making me grit my teeth the whole time now. The trails that I normally ride are about 15 miles away by way of 485' the outer loop around Charlotte, where the speed limit is 65. Other drivers will run you over if you don't maintain 70mph.
I think I'll leave the mapping alone until I decide to remove the cat from the stock muffler, or replace it.
 

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James Patton said:
You will feel a MUCH bigger difference, with DECAT, or exhaust, and $40 remap...you will be surprised.
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I will need to find a shop to send my computer to for the flash. It's obvious that the dealer I bought my bike from doesn't have the ability to do it. Do you have any suggestions? I read the forum about removing the cat. It looks like it will be a fight. I'll have to make sure I have plenty of cut off wheels.
 
I have the quiet insert, never ran the exhaust without it, still a little to loud for me.
I think it's only a couple of DB difference. I actually like the bark most of the time, but my neighbors, and in
The woods quiet would be good.
 
James Patton said:
I have the quiet insert, never ran the exhaust without it, still a little to loud for me.
I think it's only a couple of DB difference. I actually like the bark most of the time, but my neighbors, and in
The woods quiet would be good.
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BTW, if you want an extra can to experiment with BMP has a few of the TE exhaust cans that I suspect they would sell.
 
I still have my stock can. I drilled the rivets out, and took a look at the CAT, but the FMF showed up and have just
not gotten to removal. I have the rivets and gun ready, I will do some comparison soon. The only thing is it runs
so good with the FMF, and it is so much lighter. Plus the new map works great with the FMF.
 
Just a side note . The stock redline is 10,750 rpm. 15-45 sprockets will spin a unloaded rear tire to 117 mph at 10,750 rpm. At 58.5 mph the engine is in the middle of it's rpm range at 5,375 rpm. With the JD and FMF powercore I have seen a 100 mph, that's 9,188 rpm in 6th gear going slightly up hill :) At this RPM the engine is getting into the over rev and will only produce less hp the higher up in the rpm's you go . The only way to go faster is with a re-map or pcv and piston / cams, porting... I recently did a airbox mod so I will be curious if the bike will push much harder past 100 ...
 
So I had the opportunity yesterday to let er' rip. With stock gearing I was pretty much topping out around 85 mph. I haven't had an opportunity
to really open her up since going with a 48t rear sprocket until yesterday. Foresthill Road is the perfect place to let her rip. I had it up to 90mph and
maybe could've gotten to 95 but it's hard to read that friciken' speedo when you're going that fast as I have to move the cables just to see it. I'll
say 95mph would be max, though. That's with 48t rear, FMF, PCV (in perfect tune). There ya go.
 
Tinken said:
Stock gears on a decatted Farconni big can on my 511 would reach 97mph before re-flashing the ecu. You must still have the stock exhaust on it.
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Hey Tinken. I have been reading this forum for the last 2 weeks and you seem to have much knowledge. I've been riding for almost 30 years on street bikes but new to enduro bikes. I live in NYC and I just purchased 2013 TE449 in Connecticut. I plan to convert it to a supermoto. I have a few questions please:

1. What is a power up plug/power up kit/power loop etc. ? Are they different parts or the same thing. (It was not included in my package). Where can I buy one and what does it look like ? Do you have a pic ? How is it installed ?

2. I read on this forum that you can re-map the ECU to BMW race 3 but also read that VIN #s ending over 100 can not be done. I have VIN # ending 179.

3. I just purchased a FMF powercore slip-on and power commander v. Can I still power up and get BMW race 3 ?

Sorry for the many questions...Thanks
 
I actually have good luck reflashing MY13 449/511s. It's the MY11449's that don't flash usually.
 
I was so excited to read through all 5 pages and looked forward to the outcome of the negative persons equipment changes and it never happened. Wonderful. 10 minutes of my life wasted.
 
Mike Dan said:
I may still experiment with gearing, but the bike seems to pull 65 or 70mph without making me grit my teeth the whole time now. The trails that I normally ride are about 15 miles away by way of 485' the outer loop around Charlotte, where the speed limit is 65. Other drivers will run you over if you don't maintain 70mph.
I think I'll leave the mapping alone until I decide to remove the cat from the stock muffler, or replace it.
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I'm close to you with a '13 TE449, Rock Hill. If you're on the interstate much put a oil breather/catch can/recirc something on it or you'll be oiling your boots. :D
 
Radar said:
I fixed the gearing on mine with a Yamaha WR450F.
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Gearing fixed, good.
Ended up with a fat bike, bad.

That's the bike Is wanted and tested (having come off a '05 model).
Then I rode the Husky and could not go back.
Looking at a test ride soon on the new nimble WR250.
 
MLuker said:
I was so excited to read through all 5 pages and looked forward to the outcome of the negative persons equipment changes and it never happened. Wonderful. 10 minutes of my life wasted.
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MLuker

Sorry I never finished this thread. I did solve the issues with my bike. I wound up buying the FMF Powercore exhaust and sent my ECU to ZipTy to flash in the BMW 3 map. I have been very happy with the power and top speed ever since. I still haven't tried new gearing. It works great in the woods with the stock gearing and I have been up to 97 mph on the road. I have found that the bike runs very lean, almost un-rideable after the ECU flash, with the power up plug removed. I was also having flameout issues that were taken care of by adjusting the air screw and TPS. I didn't like the lack of engine braking either. After reading about the secondary butterfly in the throttle body on another thread on this forum, I decided to remove it and the button on the ECU controlled throttle cam. I am now very satisfied with my TE! Searching the threads on Cafe Husky has helped me to make my bike much better. Life happens and I just never took the time to finish my story. Better late than never?
 
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