• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    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!

Carbs vs EFI......which to buy?

I like carbs.........With that said I have been making the move back to Lectron carbs. EFI like performance without the complexity. I had Quicksilvers on my Honda 4 stroke and they were designed by the same guy. Edelbrock discontinued the Quiksilver. Lectrons are also altitude compensating. Better metering of fuel. Better economy. Better throttle response. Especially on a 2 stroke. They also have them for 4 strokes but I don't think they have an accelerator pump. I had Quicksilvers with AC pump and without. I actually liked the non pump model better. Better fuel economy and less jumpy in tight woods. The AC pump throttle response was actually too quick. I like a bit more control.
 
firebolter said:
Well we'll see. Owning both, raced both and for now, I'll take a carb'd bike for my main off road weapon of choice. Again, not knocking EFI, just not overly in love with it either. Like it on my Street bike (K1300S). There are new carb technologies coming more to the forefront that give you the same basic benefits as EFI without the added complexity. I just bought a APT carb for the new Berg smoker and we'll see how that goes. To date, it is working very well for those that are running them. No jets to deal with. It compensates for altitude and temp variances like EFI, but without needing a fuel pump and additional electrical circuits thereby keeping it simpler. Each to his own!
Like I said, fuel injection is only as good as the mapping that goes with it. Guys like JD will always have business as long as the EPA is around.
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I have 20+ hours on my APT carb. I've bought another one and intend to put one on every bike I have (except the TM:rolleyes:) I'm also going to buy a Lectron and will provide another third party back to back opinion. I've only owned one FI dirtbike and that was enough for me. I pulled my bike out of the trailer on Christmas Day to show the carb to my visiting son. 33°F, one kick and idling smoothly!
 
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