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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

My new FMF Header...

Boogie said:
Looks good.
What are you going to do for a header heat shield?
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Thanks. I'll probably pick up one of the FMF universal heat shields. I was a little bummed that the FMF header did not come with the mounting bosses for the factory shield, as the FMF Q4 silencer I ordered had them for the factory rear shield.
 
My stock header heat shield fell off last week and now lost. Bummer.
Also just put on a 10' tc250 Ti Arrow silencer on my 13' 310. No mounting bosses on that either. Another Bummer.
 
I just went out in the garage and held up the factory heat shield to the FMF header. It should work fine if I can find some hose clamp mounts.
 
Mike-AK said:
I just went out in the garage and held up the factory heat shield to the FMF header. It should work fine if I can find some hose clamp mounts.
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Cool. Let me know if you find some clamps that work well. Maybe I could use the same for my rear heat shield.
 
That's weird because my powerbomb had the bosses on it so I could reuse the OEM heat sheild. FMF must have changed designs along the way. My DR650 powerbomb used hose clamp style mounts and they worked great. That route should work or you can weld some up yourself if you have a mig welder. Looks nice BTW:applause:
 
Can you let us know if you feel and significant power gain from the system? I have a Leo Vince Ti system but no power bomb header, will be interesting to see what difference they make.
 
We are in the middle of winter here in Alaska, so no riding, but I did fire it up in the garage after the install. I can't tell any difference in sound over the stock system, and it seems to rev the same. I'm hoping it will cure the little flat spot at the transition from low to mid RPM.
 
reveille said:
That's weird because my powerbomb had the bosses on it so I could reuse the OEM heat sheild. FMF must have changed designs along the way. My DR650 powerbomb used hose clamp style mounts and they worked great. That route should work or you can weld some up yourself if you have a mig welder. Looks nice BTW:applause:
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Thanks. I have a buddy that does a lot of welding. Perhaps I'll just ask him to tack on a couple M6 stainless nuts.
 
It should add about 2 hp throughout the rpm range. It will not cure your flat spot, that is fuel related.
 
Tinken said:
It should add about 2 hp throughout the rpm range. It will not cure your flat spot, that is fuel related.
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Does the PC V cure the flat spot, and if I use it with an Autotune, will the ZipTy maps adjust to the more restrictive Q4 silencer?
 
I'd set the base map to the Zipty map and then set the Autotune to 20%. It will adjust your map as you ride through the rpm range. Get the pcv with ignition timing.
 
Mike-AK said:
I ended up ordering the FMF heat shield that has the hose clamps and nutsert standoff thingys.
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What did that end up costing you? Just curious because my midpipe heat shield needs mounting and no bosses there. I thought about making something but if the clamps are cheap enough then, well you know, I have other crap to occupy my time...
 
reveille said:
What did that end up costing you? Just curious because my midpipe heat shield needs mounting and no bosses there. I thought about making something but if the clamps are cheap enough then, well you know, I have other crap to occupy my time...
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$35...not cheap.
 
I priced the OEM husky header heat shield...
Wait for it...

1st dealer - $80
2nd dealer - $60

We get ripped in AUS.
 
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