well here is a sneak peek at what i did over the winter. still have a few things left to do before getting to ride it.

YES! I love the way the front brake looks like that - right out in the open in your face. Everyone wants to hide it or delete it and I just can't agree with them. Put it right out there front and center. I see that and I think this bike means effin' business

very cool! more simply there are no words!

Love the forks.  Manual compression release and a slight trim on the upper most motor mount bolt (or delete the top bolt) and the tank should drop on tighter. Try it, you may have room to keep the release as is with the bolt out... If so, a small trim plate will hide the release.

For the "squawkers" the upper motor mount will be fine with 2 bolts. Have had mine like that for years since the tank swap, the other 2 have stayed tight and the engine has no excess motion. The top mount is more a "snubber" than anything else. The lower mounts are the mains.

Looks great!!!

When you get a chance I would love to hear more about that whole front end.  

Sweet ride!

Ditto on the springer.  Would love to know where you got it.  What a great look!

ok fellas here it goes background and all.

first off, i have searched high and low over the interwebz to see a springer on a savage. one is all i could find and it was on here and had a sidehack on it. now with that said, here we go.

i was only going to change out fork seals over the winter and be done with it when i ran into some pitting on the tubes that couldnt be salvaged. new tubes were ridiculous, so i decided springer for the price of new tubes.
the springer is a DNA springer now i have heard many different stories of them being junk and i still do, but from what i gathered most of the ones they say were junk were raked out and on heavier bikes. i wanted to stay as close to stock as i could so i wouldnt be messing with the geometry of the bike in relation to being level to the ground. i researched for months before i pulled the trigger.
i found that 2" under stock would keep me around the same length as stock forks. i bought a conversion kit for the bearings which i probably didnt need to do but it was made for the savage specifically. it was just bearings and races and some spacers.
i came across some killer deals in my search for parts. i got the DNA brake caliper and mount for 60 bucks, front wheel and tire for 150, and the rotor for 50 bucks. price that stuff online and you will pay big time.
the installation went rather smoothly as far as neck and bearings/races, but spacing the wheel out was a pain in the a$$. not only did i have to space the wheel to center but i also had to space rotor to caliper. lots of measuring and remeasuring. definitely took my time as i wanted to get everything right and still be safe.
now with the springer, dont expect to be using the stock tank because front end hits the tank. i wound up finding this tank at a swap meet, but am in the middle of modifying it to fit right. things are not going so well on it, but i might have to improvise for the moment cause its getting warmer here and i want to ride so bad.
i wound up getting hurley controls and doing some rewiring. not a big fan of doing wiring at all, but came thru pretty good.

ok so i think i might have covered some things for you guys. feel free to ask any more questions on things i may have left out.

one bit of advise is to research it till your sick of looking and soak in as much info as you can.

again, thanks to everyone for the compliments