J&M acoustic pads for the Bat-Wing fairing are here ,,,,, http://www.jmcorp.com/ProductDetail....ctID=FSAP-HDCL ,,,,

 

I hate to make this report, but here it is:
Three days ago, my bike got wet. I even rode it the day after it got wet. But today, when I took the cap off my fairing, the polyfil inside was STILL WET. I'm sorry, but living in South Florida, where it rains all the time, I'm not going to have my speakers wrapped in a wet blanket. If I'm losing some sound benefit, I can live with that. But at this time, my batwing is now free of polyfil.

 

Steevo that's great feedback. That might make one of those plastic speaker baffles more beneficial. I'd drill a 3" or 4" hole in the back and put a light amount a poly-fil in the cup.

Just another idea.... Maybe I'll try this and present results.

 

Interesting report.....I can't imagine either that the polyfil would dry out much inside the fairing once it got wet. Not a pretty picture. Would you describe the difference you noticed in sound quality after you removed the polyfil? Thanks

 

You can tell the difference when the bike is parked, but on the highway it's not really noticable. I'll be fine without it. Peace of mind prevails in this case.

 

I Will Say That The Poly Fill Does 'Clean Up 'Sound, But Reading The Above Issue About The Wet Stuff... I Do Have Concerns. I Have Made My Own Speaker Cup, But It Needs RefineMentS Yet As It Fits Nice But Can't Mount It DUe To Lower Brace...

 

Good to know! I had thought about the rain issue as well but never figured it would get that wet inside the inner fairing. I'll crawl into my McQuiver Lab and start messin around with different ideas once my new Speaks arrive!

 

If you are getting rain water inside your fairing sufficient to soak polyfil, you have a big problem with the fit between your inner and outer fairings.

I'm using HDF's mobile app on my iPhone so I don't see sigs or avatars. So what bike do you have that has such heavy water intrusion. I ask because my '04 has been drenched in thunderstorms and steady rains too many times to count in the eight years I've owned it, I've had the outer fairing off at least 150 times, and seen no evidence of water intrusion.

You should address the water intrusion issue IMO.

CARL

 

GoPro Steevo , sir I completely understand your point and not knocking your decision to remove it but if you've got that much water penetrating your inner fairing to allow the polyfil to absorb water, you've got a lot bigger issues to worry about. By nature because of it's manmade synthetic materials polyfil will not wick water unless it's literally soaked. What sets it apart from other sound dampening materials is the fact that polyfil will quickly dry out and will not mold. It's synthetic. It is also non-flammable at least to the point where an open ignition source is required to set it aflame.

As for the "home-made" comment above. Do your research before you get up here and promote a product which doesn't even come close to doing the same thing polyfil does and you'll find that this has been used in the audio speaker enclosure design process for many a years.. Long before your company ever got into motorcycle amp/speaker setups. Instead of simply saying "hey my product is better and you can buy it here" why don't you enlighten us very specifically as to why you think your product is better. And in fact why you think this product is better than polyfil when even the MASTER engineers of companies such as Klipsch, Steinway, Focal, and Avantgarde all use polyfil and not acoustic foam within their $100k+ speaker enclosures.

Sorry for the rant...

 

Carl,
Just looking at my bike (or any other batwing), the easiest place for water to get inside the fairing is the spot at the very ends of the windshield, right where the inner and outter meet. In the past, I've thought about a dab of silicone in that spot, but now I'm definitely gonna do it.
But these fairings are not waterproof by any means. Take the cap off your fairing. On the outter, you'll notice a gasket where the fairing meets the windshield. But there's no gasket between the inner fairing and the windshield. And besides, there's only 7 screws holding it all together, and look where the screws are located. Not the best design...