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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
Any suggestions for aftermarket exhaust for my 2013 TXC 310r? The stock one is not bad, but after riding a YZ450 for a while, a little more punch would be nice. Thanks.
Why are you selling it? How much do you want for it?If anyone is interested, I am selling my ZipTy Racing Fmf exhaust. It will come with everything you need except for the longer bolts. I am also selling the quiet insert (bought this separately though fmf) and the spark arrestor (also bought separately through fmf). I recently rode the bike back to back with the stock exhaust and was shocked how much extra snap this exhaust brought to the table.
I bought the PC T-5 Full System my 310R too. The kit's workmanship is excellent, mine included two dB reducers or it can be run fully open. I did not receive a spark arrestor in my kit - was supposed to be include and PC's supposed to be sending one (not received yet).
Comes with extra silencer material for your first repack. As you'd expect the open pipe configuration is louder and pulls each gear a little longer (given the close ratio tranny we're only talking a few feet) but doesn't really allow you to, say, use 2nd where you used to use 3rd.
With the dB killer installed there's a bit more grunt down low and the bark is quieted to near OEM levels. Sound is of course subjective but I'd say the PC pipe sounds better than the stock pipe in any configuration though open is significantly louder.
The silencer is physically smaller than stock, 2.05 pounds lighter, and tucks in a bit closer to the bike's frame. On the down side you can not re-use the 310's heat shield. It looks like the two bungs are probably spaced for the 250's heat shield so those may work. (The pipe is designed for both the 250 and 310 and includes two exhaust flanges stamped accordingly.)
Husky special parts offer two different bolt-on heat shields that'll work. The carbon fiber version cost a bit over $100.00 and had been on back-order for some time. I got tired of waiting (and burning my pants) so ordered the plastic version from Bill's. Works well enough, cost about $30.00.
I didn't dyno either exhaust but the PC seems a bit stronger everywhere. I certainly can't detect any area where there's an appreciable drop in performance. For muddy conditions and most single track I like the slightly reduced hit from closed throttle that open exhaust, Map 2*, and G2 Throttle Tamer with 400 Cam provides. (* I'm referring to the Map1/Map2 handlebar mounted selector switch, my ECU is programed with Map3 - open aftermarket exhaust).
For sandy MX I prefer Map1 with the dB reducer installed. With any setup a little pre-compression on the forks and blip of for throttle will loft the front wheel over most obstacles pretty effortlessly (of course the same can be said of any powered-up 310 with a 47 or greater tooth rear sprocket).
As Rob mentioned, the retail price is a bit steep - especially for the Ti-5 version which apparently offers less performance than the T-5 (Stainless) due to its more restrictive exhaust (the Ti-5 meets FIM standards for noise, T-5 meets AMA requirements but not the stricter FIM standard).
I purchased my T-5 System from OEMCYLES.com for $524.22 which at just about $144 more than the FMF Q4 HEX S/A silencer alone seemed about fair to me. Unfortunately OEMCYLES does not seem to carry them anymore.
The correct PC part number is: 0161225G.
Per Pro Circuit, this system will fit Husqvarna TC250R 2012-2013; Husqvarna TE/TXC250-310 2013. Obviously this systems works equally well on the 2014 models.