• 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     WR = 2st Enduro & CR = 2st Cross

  • Hi everyone,

    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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    Thanks for your patience and support!

125-200cc Best Route To 144?

water racer

water racer

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In the beginning we had the EG 144's but many seemed to have problems. Then the factory kits came out and they were good, but seems like I remember a comment by Walt about having your 125 cylinder bored was the best way to go.
If that is true, who is the best?
GP
 
Walt is the best! My 144 is outstanding! I haven't tried the EG or the Factory 144 but I will say my Walt special has some serious grunt for a 144 and it's so smooth down at a crawling speed and still rips on top with no big unexpected hit. My bike is a 08 CR so I don't know how much difference that makes.
 
The reason I like using the 125 cylinder and bore it to 144 is you get to custom fit the power valves and get a much tighter clearance-better sealing. The oem cylinder is great but they just bore the 125 cylinder and reduce the depth of the bore holes for the power valves. They do not re-port the rear transfer so it ends up being lowered a couple of mm and you lose some breathing. With those two items and the clean up of your exhaust and knife edged transfers nets you a great running 144. Also adjust the machining of your head for the desired type of gas. Just some thoughts for you to mull over.
 
Definately Walt,

You'll get great results. My cyl I bought that I sent to him was another companies grenade. The powervalves didn't even match and tolerances were off.
 
Sounds great, but I remember Walt saying he was not in the business, do I need to find someone to bore and plate, or Walt are you up for doing another one?
I am in no hurry, wouldn't want to do it until I get the rekluse in for my TC250.
GP
 
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