Harley Fairing Project Done....Finally

[strobe]

Well is took months, waited for gauges for at least 6 weeks of that time but the fairing is on the bike and painted. When I joined this site I had the fairing mocked up, but had a lot of work to do. The wiring took me almost 10 hours alone to get all the gauges, stereo, rear speakers, and other things hooked up and neatly tied up. Here are a few pictures of the final product. I got lazy and did a single color on the fairing, will likely do two tone this winter but needed to get done so took the easy way out for now.

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Did my 1400 mile trip though Lolo Pass on it a couple weeks ago and it all held up so I guess it passed the road test. Adds a lot of weight to the front end / steering though which takes a bit of getting used to. :)

[duneseven]

I think the single color works great with the bike , I would leave it . Great job looks great

[lomax]

...Well done Cory! It looks great. :)

[pirate]

Well done, Cory! You should be proud of all your hard work! Those gauges look really cool!

[rickyboy]

Great looking job Cory !! Hey, I'm coming to Alberta soon.... do you want to start on one for my 06??? ;)

[lonewolf]

great looking fairing! ya its a ton of work, but the final product is worth it! good job!!!

[strobe]

Great looking job Cory !! Hey, I'm coming to Alberta soon.... do you want to start on one for my 06??? ;)

Sure....do you want to know how much that thing ended up costing me first though....Kind of lost track of the costs at some point, and wish I had not added it up later, but I like the finished product, so I guess it is worth it.

If you were closer I would gladly help make up the brackets, just takes some time and patience. I have templates if you want.

[schoeney]

Sweet!

[patmahoney]

I think the single color works great with the bike , I would leave it . Great job looks great

I agree I think the single color looks great with the bike. Congrats on the completion!

[dhomoney]

That is very nice. considering a fairing myself. Not sure yet. Waffling. :)

[ringadingh]

It looks really nice with the gauges installed. good job.

[dogdoc]

Good job Cory. Want another '05 to work on?? Any idea of total cost of fairing project? i would like one myself. :-)

[Netnorske]

Cory....nice work! The one color looks fine. Maybe a little pinstriping might bling it up a bit....but it looks good!

[cactusjack]

Great job. You should be patting yourself on the back!

[lonewolf]

if i had known what paint was gonna cost me, i probably wouldnt have dun it. fairing was 50.00 for outer and inner. stereo , speakers and guages were a couple hundred. misc steel, and chrome bolts and misc electrical another 50.00. paint cost me 400.00 thru colorite. then 150 to squirt it. so a lil over 800 to do it all !!!

[cnc]

Very nice.

[strobe]

Thanks for the compliments! I am quite a perfectionist so when I do something I always see what I did "wrong", things that most everybody else would not notice so it is great to hear positive feedback! Everyone that sees it seems to like it so that is a good sign.


if i had known what paint was gonna cost me, i probably wouldnt have dun it. fairing was 50.00 for outer and inner. stereo , speakers and guages were a couple hundred. misc steel, and chrome bolts and misc electrical another 50.00. paint cost me 400.00 thru colorite. then 150 to squirt it. so a lil over 800 to do it all !!!


I wish I could have got a fairing that cheap. When I bought they were going nuts on eBay, was trying to by a Tour Pak as well and all the stuff was going for new retail, crazy!

I never seem to be able to get away cheap on these things. Mine was a fair bit more than that price, was hoping for that, but by the time I got fairing ($400) the steel ($80), bought a few tools I needed (not really direct fairing costs I know, but more or less specific to the task) the costs started to go up. I also bought a fairly high end marine stereo, speakers (front and I also got rear speaker pods/speakers), a converter kit for the stereo hole to mount the single DIN stereo rather than try and make one myself, it goes on from there. I shot my own color so that was cheap, and the colorrite paint is pricey (about $400 too). Windshield(s), complete Harley headlight, etc, etc, etc. I also bought new OEM windshield mount brackets so I could modify the stock ones and still have a set for the stock windshield if I needed it. I also bought a replacement chrome piece (the one behind the stock headlight) and cut it down to cover the 'black' space between the signal lights and fairing that was larger than I liked because of the risers. Kept pretty close track and was at about $2000 (Canadian dollars) with everything , all bolts, nuts, washers, misc pieces, except the stereo, but that was all new product, except for the inner / outer fairing that were used, but both in new condition. At times the Canadian dollar was trading at 30% less than the US dollar so that likely puts it at around $1500 in US dollars. I also spent almost $100 on chrome bolts alone, could have went stainless, but wanted chrome and they were not cheap for chrome pan head hex key bolts.

Could have got a Premeux color matched for less, but I prefer the gauge holes and overall layout of the Harley one personally.

[psychocycle]

Nice job Cory, the bike looks great and I'm sure you enjoy all the new functionality. How much does that new weight affect handling? With all the work, did you install heated grips? What is next, looks like your done?

[strobe]

Nice job Cory, the bike looks great and I'm sure you enjoy all the new functionality. How much does that new weight affect handling? With all the work, did you install heated grips? What is next, looks like your done?

I did not install heated grips, did think about it though, just never got around to it I guess. The weight is only noticeable at low speeds, turns in parking lots, The steering is just heavy compared to stock. Nothing unmanageable, just different. Handles great on the highway though.

[VulcanE]

Cory, looks really awesome.................. And WELCOME to the Bat Wing Fairing Brigade! http://s2.images.proboards.com/cool.gif

[bucko72]

If you want a little more sound, alpine has an amp that plugs in line with their stereos as long as it has the black plug. KTP-445 no extra wires to run just plugs right in puts out 45x4 watts and is very small.

[pagemastr]

Kudos... it looks great, even the one color, sort of balances it with the trunk from the picture you have!