• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    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!

Ceramic header pipe coating

Rough Rider

Rough Rider

Husqvarna
AA Class
Has anybody had their header pipes coated?
I understand that the pipe runs 50% cooler, which helps keep the engine temperature down as the pipes run past the radiators.
There is also a theory that the engine can make more HP as a result of the exhaust gasses escaping the pipe more efficiently.
What your take on this?
 
I did read somewhere a guy here had his end can done and he was pleased but it was something like £150.00 just for that. Seems a lot of things cost a lot more over here but the idea's appealing.
 
I think it's a good idea, just not sure cost v £10.00 roll of heatwrap tape. Wonder if you'd get the cool blueing of the pipes or would they just stay the colour you coated them?? Don't know if anyone's mentioned that
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If this works anything like it does in the automotive world you can expect external temperatures to be less. You will not see a 50% reduction. The big advantage to coated headers is corrosion resistance and they look great.

WRT cost, there are DIY products available. Cerakote and others for a fraction of the cost of paying a shop doing it.
 
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