Gen. 2 wheels in a Gen.1?

[ProdigalSon]

I think you need to consider the disc diameter on the front wheel if you are using the Gen1 forks,  as the Gen1 Discs have 6 bolt fixing and 298mm Diameter vs 5 bolt on Gen2 and 310/320mm Diameter discs as standard. So the caliper won't be allow the larger discs of the Gen2.

Yes I was hoping to keep the original forks as personally I don't find anything wrong with them, sounds like this could get expensive!