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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

  • 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Austria - About 2014 & Newer
     TE = 2st Enduro & TC = 2st Cross

TE/TC TE150 vs TE150i

G

geastman

Husqvarna
AA Class
I have a 2018 TE150, dialed in, works great. With < 90 hours after 3 1/2 seasons, I could ride it for a long time.

But I am suffering a bit from "want a new toy" syndrome...

Has anyone owned both the carbed TE150 and injected TE150i (or spent significant time on both) and can comment on advantages/disadvantages of TE150i?

From specs, injection adds weight and costs power. And carves a big chunk out of "2-strokes are simpler than 4-strokes".

But peak power is likely not an issue. These days, I spend very little time WFO wanting more. And I basically jet by the season. Even though the JD Jetting PWK is forgiving, I do not jet for changing conditions like injection would...
 
I had an '18 150. Carb, obviously. Low end torque was super dependent on how you had it jetted. All two strokes will demonstrate this, but with the small motors it's even more important. Jetted lean and clean, I didn't like it: The motor was weak and zingy. I kept it fat and had what I thought was gobs of low end for 144cc motor.

So, my point is that with a carb you can do that. With TPI you get one (stock) map, unless you spend money on reprogramming. Stock may or may not be giving you all the torque that this AWESOME little motor is capable of.

All things considered (and admittedly having never ridden a 150TPI) I'd not let that 18 go. Especially with <90 hours on it.

Shameless Plug: While I'm here I'll say that I've used the TSP head/reprogram kit for other TPI bikes and they are amazing.
 
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