So here's another way to mount the Emgo viper/cafe/cockpit fairing.
I decided very quickly I didn't want to be drilling holes into the fairing until I tried it out on the road first and as I have low,short, flat non oem bars and a later model reservoir. Making it work meant new bars or major mods to the fairing.
So I sat the fairing on the indicator stalks and calculated the dimensions of extension brackets needed to make it work, bringing the headlight up and forward as little as possible whilst leaving the lower instrument shroud intact.
I fabricated two 55mm x 25mm x 2mm plates out of old aluminium angle, drilled elongated holes for M8 allen screws 3mm in from each end. Then I reshaped (bent) the supplied brackets to fit flat against the inner surface of the fairing,trimmed the lower tail of the bracket to accommodate the large chrome headlight washer, cold gal (supplied brackets and washers) and painted them all matt black in under 20 mins.
The kit included 14 rubber and seven metal washers.I placed the rubbers between the screw/screen and screen/body and the metals between the nut and body.
LOCKTITE every fixing!!!
I did have to elongate the four rear body holes with a fine round file to properly align the screen.
I placed the extension bracket at approx 45' to horizontal between the large chrome and rubber headlight washers with a SS washer and lock/nylock nut behind the headlight mount. As can be seen in the bracket pic I did have to bring the final position forward so the length of the bracket could have been longer by 5mm+.
The supplied brackets although identical didn't sit in the fairing symmetrically and the headlight was a tight fit in the fairing also, so this created a delay in what could have been an easy fit until I achieved the best result. An extra pair of hands would have been handy here.
I used SS M8 allen screws and washers to connect the headlight to the extension brackets. As I opted for a slightly forward tilt I used black electrical tape as a temp to prevent glare on the inside of the fairing at night.
I latter fabricated stiffeners running between the upper screen/fairing tails and the instrument shroud screws to stop pivoting and vibration using the same angle as for the extension brackets.
All up I reckon on 4+ hours of fiddling,fettling and twatting about to get it right.
The only down side to this method is that there is a noticeable gap between the fairing dash and instruments, which exaggerates any alignment issues.
I'm very happy with the fairing both visually and practically.
It works well in deflecting wind blast off my torso, I'm 6ft', so the wind is felt around the shoulders, arms and knees but not in a negative way. It performs really well at higher speeds, braking the "Ton'' comfortably.
Pics on there way.
