The Savage requires a pretty wide tunnel.  It has to clear the coil, the turn signal flasher, a couple of bulky electrical connectors, and the decompression solenoid.  The frame makes a very wide spread where the single backbone spreads into the two frame rails in the last 1/4th of the tank.

You might be able to make that tank work if you are willing to cut and modify the top frame rail on the Savage, and relocate some of the electrical components that are under the tank.

Here is what I had to do to a Suzuki GT550 tank to get it to sit down far enough on the frame to look proper on my bike - some have left the tank sit up a bit higher and it looks fine.  You can see how wide the tunnel is, and yet the decomperssion solenoid was eliminated as there wasn't room for it.



But in order to get it done low enough that the forks would work, I had to do this, and it took about 6 hours of heating, hammering and fitting:


Then once I got the tank to sit low enough, I made the front tanks mounts:


The tank sits lower and the head sits a bit up inside the bottom of the tank.


 
 

Dave is
Tenacious D.
If you don't have a panel cutter with the hammer face attachment,you need one. And be forewarned, unbalanced loads can snap them off. A shaped piece of rod welded on the shank works.

aesthetic felony..
That's good..

DieselBob wrote on 03/15/17 at 15:56:15:



I had my torch and a Rose Bud tip, and I would heat up an area about 2" round,,,,,and start tapping.  When the red went away I heated and tapped again. About every 6th heating I had to stop and cool the backside of the tank with a wet towel as it was burning my lap.  I used a medium size ball peen hammer.....it was massaged into shape - rather than beaten!

ohiomoto wrote on 03/16/17 at 08:29:37:


Several of the people who used the GT380/550 tank were able to fit without the blacksmith treatment - the tank ends up being about 3/4" higher than mine.  I had to lower the tank so that the bottom edge would be in alignment with the bottom of the RYCA seat pan.

Somebody that didn't hammer on the tank to get it lower....post a photo from the side so a comparison on height can be made.

Maybe I'll pick back through this pile and see if I can find something close.





And if not there, start on the barn.

DieselBob:

Is that smorgasboard local to you?

I would like to come a scrounge around with you!