• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Austria - About 2014 & Newer
     FE = 4st Enduro & FC = 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

FE/FC EU map for 501 FE-not an S

ztrab

ztrab

Husqvarna
AA Class
Our KTM/Husky dealer decided the profit margin on his multi-line dealership just wasn't worth the heartache, so they closed a few months ago before I could get my 501 to install the EU map. The bike isn't terrible but I can feel it is lean on the bottom and from the gazillion posts scattered on the forums, a handful of which are probably knowledgeable, it appears the EU will make the bike run a little cooler and better off the bottom, I know my 690 ran better after installing the Acro map (richer) but I had a LV can and open air box. I did open the stock tip and may open the air box a bit on my 2015 501. I was pretty glad the Husky dealership was picked up by a independent mixed line shop in town. I called and asked if they could re-map my bike - sure, as soon as we get trained on the factory equipment. Okay, a little nervous, but okay, call me. A few weeks go by and I stop in and chat with the service writer - uhm, still waiting for the rep to walk us through the equipment. Gulp, okay, call me when that happens, Ten days later I call, talk to service and the dude tells me they can do it but their rep told them it makes the bike worse. So I ask why - get the huh kinda response ...because the rep said so and all the forums are wrong kind of answer,but if I want to do it they will install it. Now that instills confidence.

I do know the manager of another shop 100 miles north that also owns the KTM point and he said they will take care of me but they want the bike - not unreasonable or Munn's said they will do if I send the ECU in.

What a pain. Just wondering how many serious off-road riders have remapped and can seriously say it improved the bike AND how many did it sending out the ECU or at a local/reputable dealer. This has turned into a circus. I hate to burn half a day and a few hundred miles to go where I know the GM of a BMW dealer who will make sure the KTM side takes care of me but I'd like to be confident the map actually installs.

I'd welcome any others first hand experience/thoughts on this topic. I'm pretty much over the idea of testing out the new dealership.
 
I have a 16 fe350s. I am a bit of a tinkerer. I did the power commander and was curious about EU MAP. I sent my Ecu to Munn. I took off the power commander and rode the bike. I had forgotten how crappy it ran stock. I put remapped ecu on. It Seemed almost identical to what the power commander did to the bike; maybe slightly better. Great improvement on my s version bike. Side note- I am not a fan of tinkering with the TPS. I bought the connector and played with it some and then ended up putting back to stock when I didn't like the feel. Just my two cents.
 
GopherPride23 said:
I have a 16 fe350s. I am a bit of a tinkerer. I did the power commander and was curious about EU MAP. I sent my Ecu to Munn. I took off the power commander and rode the bike. I had forgotten how crappy it ran stock. I put remapped ecu on. It Seemed almost identical to what the power commander did to the bike; maybe slightly better. Great improvement on my s version bike. Side note- I am not a fan of tinkering with the TPS. I bought the connector and played with it some and then ended up putting back to stock when I didn't like the feel. Just my two cents.
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Wondering if the FE ships with a different map than the S? Opened up the can today for less BP and the hesitation was gone off the bottom, ran great...
 
ztrab said:
Wondering if the FE ships with a different map than the S? Opened up the can today for less BP and the hesitation was gone off the bottom, ran great...
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I would think so as the "S" must meet the emissions for on-road in the US.
 
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