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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!
The yz design is with a bevel to a raised flat top. That is what you are seeing in the picture. So it looks good to me. You will need to machine your head to accommodate the bevel in the squish band. You will also need to re-chamber the head or your compression will be off the charts. The piston top is raised ~.6mm over the same dimension on the stock husky piston. JFYI
Yes that is just the cnc work on the casting to remove excess metal, lighten the piston, and balance the piston. The YZ design has a 1mm offset pin that gives a slight advantage on the power stroke.
The piston top height is .6mm higher than the stock husky measured from the wrist pin hole. So it is a bit more involved.