• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

FMF and PCV install - bike dying on throttle

If that's the case, then he could have saved me $400 :P Is it anything with California EPA stuff? Seriously, I don't care about the money, just glad my bike is back. haha
 
Tinken said:
I had two customers from OC bring their bikes by the shop this week to get pcv's, but Ty talked them out of it claiming map 3 was just as good. I'm still wondering what was going on there... What do you guys think?
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Maybe he was trying to save them money? Perhaps they aren't the type of riders who need that kind of power. Your map turned my bike into a Beast! I had to relearn how much to twist the throttle yesterday. There were a few situations where I almost got myself in trouble with too much loud handle application.
 
Huskynoobee said:
Your map turned my bike into a Beast! I had to relearn how much to twist the throttle yesterday. There were a few situations where I almost got myself in trouble with too much loud handle application.
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Just pretend you're back on the lawn mower...
 
gillies said:
Uhhh... Couldn't agree more. JD Tuner - simple, cheap, effective.
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No lie, the JD unit is $225 and you get simple effective fuel tuning that doesn't require a computer or any programming knowledge. It is a great way for many to improve their performance with less investment.

For just over a hundred bucks more, the PCV is $336 @ ZipTy. Comes with a map (up to two separate maps) of your choice from mild to wild, both fuel and ignition mapping, switchable on the fly (button on handlebars or shifter). The software is free and the unit has huge expandability, -100/+250% fuel change range, allows +/- 20 degrees of timing adjustment, O2 sensor auto tuning, quick shift, launch control, rev limit expansion, accelerator pump, fuel start timers, and probably a few other things I can't think of...
 
I rode and raced with my JD for almost 2 years trying not to get a PCV. Did it work? Sure, got rid of the off idle stumble (mostly) and allowed those on the trail adjustments if needed. Tinken knew what he was doing when he let me borrow a factory race team ECU last month at the West Hare Scramble. I couldn't believe how much better my bike ran with the JD set to complete bypass. It was a great direct apples to apples comparison as this was at my home riding area.

Fast forward to this past Saturday where I went on an epic ride from Trona at 1703'elevation, to Telescope Peak at 11,043' elevation with my new Power Commander installed. It just flat worked better everyway and everywhere. Once I got used to how much more power was available there is just no going back.

I don't have autotune at this time and after that ride, don't see me needing it either. It took lots of persuasion but I'm slow to change things on a bike. I thoroughly tested the JD and got good at making snap adjustments on the trail searching for the just right setting. That thought never occurred to me on Saturday with the PCV. The only thing I need to do is get a fuel conservation map to load for these long days, but I certainly have my race map loaded already.
 
Tinken said:
I had two customers from OC bring their bikes by the shop this week to get pcv's, but Ty talked them out of it claiming map 3 was just as good. I'm still wondering what was going on there... What do you guys think?
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Map #3 did not work for me at all. It was the same or worse as if it didn't take Map #3. And remember that some guys have locked ECUs and a JD or PCV is their only option.
 
One of the guys on here was building an ignition map on low power mode that retarded the timing during the initial launch in order to improve his throttle snatch. I don't think that timing alone will do it, but you could load the zero map and adjust into the negative. Without Autotune and afr's it is going to be more guess work, but could be done with the field adjustments to start while comparing both maps. The accel pump settings won't change from map to map, so the off idle stumble won't happen in low power mode.
 
But I gotta have the juice now! It's not necessarily abrupt, just took getting used to. No way I'm going back to Briggs and Stratton mode!
 
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