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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

Old TE/TC/TXC 449-511 Dealer release info

Dangermouse449 said:
We're lucky where our favorite trails are. Never more than 100km from fuel, do it all on the standard tanks :)
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DM some of our rides are into towns that no longer have fuel and if they do it comes out of jerry cans and $3.00 litre F......................CK THAT I would rather carry the extra weight in my back pack. We have some pretty awesome rides . I normally ride into a Town called Noojee have a feed at the OUTPOST or Noojee Pub and on week ends heaps of bikes ,road and trail also car clubs its pretty awesome. Have a look it's a pretty amazing place simple but relaxing.
 
Dangermouse449 said:
Some good reading in these data sheets, comparing bikes from other makers to the then new Huskys.

They compared well to bikes of their day, especially in power from the Kymco engines.
Keeping in mind these are US bikes, the TE449 was listed at 46.5 engine HP with the evil Lafranconi cat convertor muffler (And more than the 2011 KTM450).
The TC449 with Akra system & more compression was 50hp!(And more than the Honda CRF450 which I have too, it flies):)

Shame they never really took hold, I think they're a great thing.
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The sales guide sheets you have posted list horsepower and not brake horsepower, so there is no difference between exhaust systems. Only the TXC's listed are from the United States, all others are world wide. I posted the full sales guide as well as others in the ZipTy directory if you wish to read completely.
 
Tinken said:
Horsepower listed was measured at the crankshaft.
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Correct, but it still would have had an exhaust system on it and I would assume to be fair, it would be the one for the bike as listed.
I.e. The La-fat-tony cat type or at least the Akro.... Not sure what you meant by your exhaust statement?

i would also suggest that the competition's figures quoted would be taken at the engine also.
I don't think the KTM/Honda etc of the day would pull those numbers at the wheel either.

Apples against apples in this case
 
No, they clearly didn't dyno with the huge Lafarconni on nor did they use oem mapping. They would of used an open exhaust tube that was mounted in their test facility across all of the engines. The differences in hp are from mechanical only. In order to achieve 51hp at the crankshaft from a TE511, they would have had to of used a wide open map. The TE511 (with oem mapping) produces approximately 33bhp at the rear tire, TE449 is 29bhp. 33*1.2=39.6hp at the crank. 39.6hp does not equal 51.
 
So you're saying they diliberately falsified their advertising stating an amount of engine power with an exhaust as listed.
And the competitions bikes weren't, so not usefull as a comparison.

Fair enough then.
 
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