AFTER

BEFORE

Just a little about the bike. Paid $500 for it with a bad piston. Bored it .50 over. Was looking for a savage for a while to do this to. Made a swingarm 12 inches longer than the stock one. Double k&n filters. 2.5 inch exhaust. Still not sure about the jetting but getting close. 55 pilot with 170 main. Runs good, super fast. Clutch is slipping a bit but gonna take those out today and get them cleaned up. May still have to rejet a little but I'm close. No backfire at all on decell. So I think the pilot is close. I'm 2 turns out on pilot screw.

Gonna either wrap the exhault or paint it not sure what I'm gonna do there yet. Gonna paint it first and go from there. I did port out the exhaust and intake ports quite a bit so I made a restrictor plate that I put in the exhaust right after where it hooks up to the head. 1 3/4" to match the port job. Seems to be about right for back pressure. It sounds super cool. Plenty of low end power. Runs super strong up till about 85 then the clutch starts to slip. Gonna get the clutch fixed then maybe play with the gearing a bit. Not sure yet. I'm at 17/50 now and I'm thinking I may gear it a little lower. Got a 16 front I might try once I get the clutch from slipping. We'll see.

The shocks I used were off a old 1100. They're 13" and you wouldn't believe how smooth the ride is. I've been on many different bikes in my forty years and this thing is by far the smoothest best handling bike I've ever been on. I'ts a total joy to ride!!!!!!!!

Over all I am super happy with what I did. Looks long, sits low, and its super loud. So far there's been a croud around it where ever I go. Nothing but compliments so far. I'm sure that will change soon. LOL Hoping this will open up some new ideas with some people.

Yea it handles super good. You'd never know it was any longer untill you look back and see that tire way back there.

I admire the work, but why stretching it??? I'm thinking, the way you deisgned the rear fender, it would look cool had you left the swingarm stock length.
Or, since you built a new swingarm (kudos!!) how about a 16'' rear with 180/60 sports tire?

Life is a game, enjoy playing!

Awsome stretch job!

Are you going to build those swingarms for sale or would you post the construction?

verslagen1 wrote on 06/08/10 at 11:31:04:


Never thought about selling them. I do have a jig made.

First I bought a stock swingarm off ebay. Just so I could cut the ends and the mounts off of one and still have the original to put back if I didn't like it. Made the jig off one of the stock swingarms. Slid the rear part of the jig back one foot in a perfect straight line and filled in the middle with 11 guage 1"x2" rectangular tubing. It was acutally pretty simple.

dasch wrote on 06/08/10 at 11:15:27:


I stretched it just because I could. Always wanted to do something a little different. Still not sure if I like everything the way it is. Lot's of different ideas in my head maybe a 250 rear maybe a 1100 inline 4 cylinder motor. Just wanted to start with the bare minimun and see if I liked the basics of the way longer swingarm. The whole rear fender section is what would work with the front fender there. I may change that whole area with a little wider fender. Just wanted to get the basics done and now I'll start fine tuning the looks from there. Any ideas are definately appreciated. Thanks.

I like it!
Going back to my dirtbike days, this thing yells.....SAVAGE HILL CLIMBER!!!!!!!!!!!!

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