I followed diamond jim's lead here
I removed the seat cover and foam exposing the seat pan. The seat pan has a lot of low and high spots, to add rigidity and insure that your butt hurts after 30 minutes. Following Jim's lead I used a can of self expanding foam (the kind you get for leaky doors and windows) to build it up level. This takes a while to set so you might want to get some beer. I then added two layers of ½ inch foam to the seat pan from a blue walmart camping pad. I used 3M  spray adhesive on both surfaces of the foam and on the seat pan. A little work with a grinder and a curved sureform file gave me the shape that I wanted. Then a layer or two of polyester quilt batting (no mold with polyester) to smooth any sharp areas around the edges. I glued the batting to the foam. Finally replacing the cover. The cover was not as hard as I was lead to believe. I lined it up and added a couple of staples at the sides to keep it centered. Then I folded the front of the cover back to the middle of the seat and sprayed the top of the batting and the bottom of the cover with spray adhesive. You need to work quick here because you only have about 15 seconds to get the cover pressed down and smoothed out. Give the glue a minute or two to bite then remove the staples, fold the back half of the seat cover forward and repeat the process.
I raised the nose of the seat up about one inch as well. I cut the pillion down about half way and added an inch of my blue foam back but it might have been too much.
Tell me what you  think.
I haven't had a chance to try it yet. As you can see I am working on a DJ longshot exhaust and I an waiting on a Sportster baffle from a friend. If I was to go for a ride the way it is I wouldn't make the end of the block before being pulled over. Man is this thing loud!

I used a hand operated PowerShot 5700M that I got at Lowes. It takes Arrow T-50 staples. I used 3/16th staples but 1/4th might have been a better choice. Post pictures when you are through.
The amount of foam that I used is probably 1/4 what was on the seat from the factory. I dished the back, to allow my ample butt to sit a little flatter. I also feathered the front so that the center is about an inch higher than either side. Mt thought here was to releave some of the hot spots on the inside of my fat thighs.

Thanks John....

I am going to take some foam out of the back also,where you sit,and build up the front....and try to widen the sitting area, just a little.

I hope its as easy as I'm thinking it will be! If it goes as planned it will be more like a saddle,than the seat it is.

All I need is the stapler. I was beginning to think I might need an electric staple gun,but maybe not.Being I've never used either.

Will take pics though if/when I get it done!
Let us know how yours does!

I must say, that looks good! And I predict that you will much prefer it over the stock seat, as my own cut-down stock saddle has become my favorite of several seats I've tried. The Sportster seat runs a distant second.

I just recently re-installed the cut-down seat on the Savage I intend to ride the most this summer:



Also pictured are a few spare seats; some of which may become available in the near future.  

Seat looks great!!!  In regard to the long shot pipe, how do you have it secured?  Did you make a bracket to hold it in place just past the heat shield, or at present is it just supported by the exhaust mounts?
DocNeedles

Here's the new baffle thread, JB.  Didn't wanna threadjack!

http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1245646758/0#0.

diamond jim wrote on 06/21/09 at 07:36:37:


It does sound like a great idea! But....

Right now,I work alot and just want some Ride time with a "better" seat than the original....so my present idea(I think) will be okay for the summer....but next winter I'm sure if my seat isnt just like I want it,I'll be looking into that and work on it again

A little wider would definitely be nice!

Thanks for the great idea!! I'm going to keep that in mind!
 (I would have never thought of that!)

I removed a number of seat covers during the years that I owned a furniture store. Rusty staples hold much better than new ones.