I have been "lurking" on this website now for at least 3 months just waiting for the day that I can find MY Savage.  Well, that day finally came and I just had my new (to me) 2002 Savage delivered to the house.  3767 miles on the odometer and no problems as far as I can tell (using knowledge gained on this forum of course).  My main intention when buying this bike is to use the parts from Blue Collar Bobbers and make this thing AWESOME (not that they aren't already).  I will post pictures and notes along the way from beginning to end and document the process.  I am approaching this project as a complete novice having never done more than change the oil on my dads old Chrysler when I was a "kid".  Should be fun.........

Welcome aboard ... look forward to seeing your build ... good luck!

Greetings and Salutations Bam.

Thank you all for the words of welcome.  I will post pics once I get started.  Just an update, bike was delivered last night, earlier today went and got the registration, tag and title done, just got done ordering the full kit from Blue Collar Bobbers and it should be here in a few days.  Great folks there.  

Also, I read the post in the market about not buying from "noobs" like myself but I will have a number of stock, like new parts available in the very near future.  Should I wait to post those in the marketplace until I am a gristled veteran of the forums or no?  (the "gristled veteran" part was tongue in cheek).  

thanks again for your welcomes and I look forward to sharing as I go.

Okay so here's an update.  Ordered the BCB kit on a Tuesday, it was shipped on Saturday, and arrived at my house on Monday afternoon!  So I watched the 2 hour DVD that was included in the kit to get a feel for what I was in for.  Not too bad, some electrical stuff needed to be rewound and watched a few times.  Tonight, Tuesday, I decided to get started with the tear down of the bike, here are some pics of that process (not that most of you haven't done this before and know what your bike looks like naked).  

Here she is stock




The DVD included in the kit was extremely detailed.  I have not had to refer to the Clymer manual once so far!  For those of you that don't have one, I highly recommend one of these magnetic parts holders.  It's got rubber covered magnets on it so it won't mar whatever it's attached to and it was a life saver tonight.



Here she is with the tank and exhaust removed


My neatly organized work area (note all the tricks I've learned from this site, the ziploc bags, laid out cleanly, the PBR).


This is the seat I ordered from BCB, the quality on this is awesome!


Here are the tins, all ready to go to the painter first thing tomorrow morning.  Note the BCB rear fender in there.  Regardless of what their website says, this is a very solid steel fender NOT fiberglass.



Thats all for tonight.  I've gotta get some rest.  Any suggestions on paint would be highly appreciated, I'm thinking either a traditional flat black, white or dark hunter green.  What do you all think?


Until next time.........

looking great... cant wait to tear into mine

Bubba wrote on 03/30/11 at 06:48:32:



I did get the whole kit, the total with shipping was $1,300.00.  The nice thing is though, it includes literally everything you need to do the conversion.  It even includes loctite, etc.  

I went with the small seat at the reccomendation of Lance at BCB.  I'm not sure how much further back it will put me but he said it does put you back some and is a lot more comfortable than the stock seat.

My brother had his ACE painted with what he thought was going to be very similar to your choice of colors, but his looks much more red than yours. But I think I like the copper color you chose more.