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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Hello All... Engine Advice, Pls

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3narf

Husqvarna
Hi

I'm building a road/track special and yet to choose an engine.

I had a 1998 TE610 (non-oil pump motor) which was seriously impressive, and I'd love to fit one of those if I can find one. I do have the option of an SM610 engine but I seem to remember them being pretty feeble, something like 36bhp. I also read the valve and inlet angle is actually slightly better on those, so they have more potential but need work to be as good as the older engine.

Who is doing engine work on husky 610 engines these days?

Also, I hear the SWM 650 engine is basically a Husky... what's everyone's thoughts on those, and can you get the parts?

Many thanks,
Andy
 
Parts for 610s are increasingly spotty, you can get most things, some only from europe or ebay and some can get expensive. The forums also seem sleepy these days so less advice. Its an esoteric bike, not so many out there. The EFI models plus ibeat and a power comamander can get good performance and are good runners.

The SWM is essentially a 630 but with more chinese parts inside, I think it is skightly narrower gearing than my te610; I wouldnt bet on SWM keeping in production. Some variant of the engine will probably live on, its expensive to get an engine through emissions. But think of husqvarna -> cagiva -> bmw/ktm -> swm... Ive become a bit jaded. Still enjoy my 610
 
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