OEM solo seat cowl fitment and seat pad

[tzar250]

Hi
I recently bought a genuine single seat cowl in great, undamaged condition.  Just needs a repaint, as it's in Marlboro colours.

Two requests:
Firstly, it didn't come with the pad.  I can get an idea of the shape from the shadow of it left on the cowl and also from photos online, but if anyone had one to hand for more photos (particularly on the back where the bolts are) and maybe accurate dimensions, I would be grateful, so I can try and fashion something similar.  Or, of course a decent one available to buy would be even better!

From what I can make out from online photos, the pad material seems to have the outer skin moulded as part of the foam, rather than vinyl cloth over foam.  Bit hard to tell, so if someone was able to confirm, that would be useful.

Secondly, it doesn't actually fit quite as well as I had hoped for a genuine part.  Everything locates well but the rear edge is noticeably above the front edge of the tail panel.  Not massively, but enough to look wrong.  My seat is in good, straight condition with the original cover.  I've seen photos online of examples that fit flush and some that don't, but assumed that the poor fitting ones were replicas.  Just wondering if I've missed something.

Thank you in advance.

[Kev]

Think mine is a genuine pad on an aftermarket cowl.

[Kev]

Foam on wood by the looks

[tzr-v4]

Don't think the pad is OEM.

I've got fiber glass copy from Finland and I'll have to do pads too.

Pictures are OEM cover.

[Pinarellodave]

Hi Tzar250
I made my solo seat pad from a piece of plywood and a sheet of high density foam that I had covered in vinyl to match the seat.  I would have preferred not to have the second stitch at the seam, but the trimmer said it was necessary for some reason - I think to stops it puckering.  I countersunk and glued 2 nuts into the plywood base to allow me to fit bolts through the back of the cowl.  Attached are a few pic of how mine turned out.  Also the template I used to cut the plywood from - for reference, the squares are 5mm x 5mm.  It's easy enough to trace the seat and cowl profile.  My cowl - a fibreglass replica,  didn't have holes for the pad so I needed to drill these and match to the template. 

The bobbins are from Legend Motorcycles -
https://legendmotorcycles.com/product/yamaha-tzr250-seat-hump-bobbins-1kt-2ma-rear-solo-cowl-bolts-a7-06/

Hope that's useful.

Dave

[tzr-v4]

Well done 

[tzar250]

Thank you for all the replies back then.  Apologies for not posting that sooner.

Still haven't sorted out the pad, but I'll get round to it soon, so the photos are useful references.

Have been trying to get the cowl to fit better, even sourced a second seat to check and maybe modify if necessary.

The photos show the best fit I can get.  Still some gaps and misalignment but maybe this is the best it can be?  I found a few photos online that seem to show other bikes with similar fitting gaps but then some show a better fit?