Ok Guys and Gals I'm new to street bikes so be gental. I just bought my Savage and I'm ready to start the customizing. Point me in the right direction and be specific. I know alot about cages and I'm pretty dang handy with a wrench but my Savage may as well be a U.F.O.!  Here's what I wanna do...

1st. The foot controls on both sides need to be moved. The shifter needs to be farther forward and the brake farther foward and lower (at less of an angle). That being said I like the pegs where they are.

2nd. The backfire has to go. It's not that pronounced and it dosen't do it all the time. It's just a quirke of mine. Being that the bike is a 96 with less than 3k miles, how would I know if the spacer I have been hearing about has been replaced with a thinner one? Obviously if it has been removed I will notice, but where would I get a new one of the proper size should it be gone all together?

3rd. Who decided to put the 55 gal. drum on the end of the exhaust? I don't care so much about volume either way (loud/quiet) but I would like to get a muffler as close as possible to the same diameter as the pipe. And in doing that, what will I have to do as far as rejetting the carb?

Like I said I'm new so till I learn all the jargon I'm gonna act/sound real stupid with these posts. Please bare with me. Long live the Single

Thnx.

Well.. Lets start with numero uno.

1.   There are forward control kits you can buy that move the controls forward, but they also move the pegs forward. If you want everything to move and not the pegs i beleive you would have to make a custom set up. but check this thread anyway for ideas.

Make Your Own Forward Controls


2.     The backfiring is an incredibly common problem and can be solved with patience and a bit of tinkering.  Three things are usually done to help this.  First people usually locate the brass plug on the carburetor that is covering the idle/mixture screw.( Once the plug is drilled and removed (be careful and read a few threads on this before doing it(Here is one)  you can adjust the mixture to help fixe a lean/rich condition.  Another mod is the white spacer mod which is done by replacing or filing down the white spacer inside the slide of the carb.  here is a pic of the white spacer in this thread :

Carb Specs

To tell if it is smaller check to see if it has been filed any, mine was about the thickness of two dimes when i started. not sure of any measurements...

The third thing people do are change main jets and pilot jets, but usually only when more air has been added, via fee flowing exhaust of less restricitve intake, such as a K&N drop in or a Pod of some sort (i have a pod K&N rc-1255 i beleive)


3.      The Trash can on the side of the bike can be removed quite easily and replaced with a Harley Sportster muffler, a screaming eagle muffler, jardine, supertrapp, the list goes on.  Many people opt for the sportser since its around 20-40 on Ebay and adds power as well as a better tone.  Looks nice also, here is a thread with some pics showing the installation, might give you some ideas on what you might want.  

Sporster Muff Install


Hope this helps, ask away and we will do what we can, just don't forget to use the search when looking for info on the carb mod's its EVERYWHERE on this site

Good Luck
-Jesse

Welcome to the site, and to the Savage World, steelwolf. As Rob Savage writes, all of your concerns have been thought about, written about and dealt with at length here. The people here have a tremendous amount of patience for newbies. There really isn't a whole lot concerning the Savage that hasn't. Just takes effort working through the Search function. You have to try some different comobinations of words. But good luck. All of the information, strategies and user support you're gonna need is here. There isn't a more supportive website on the Internet.

steelwolf wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:03:


For general benefit and because I see the term post used for darn near anything...

FORUM: A major area/section of the site where like threads are grouped.
THREAD/TOPIC: A particular line of conversation withing a forum consisting of individual posts.
POST The individual entries within a thread/topic.

When you search, you'll get posts returned and they may sound as if they start in the middle because they may well be in the middle of the thread.  If you click on the link to that post, you will be taken to it and you can then read the entire thread.

WD wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:03:



 I know that sound. I had a 14ft. skiff with a 10hp evinrude on it that i dit some lobstering off of a few summers back... what a sound..