I'm not exactly sure how long the wait was because my wife got em for me last Christmas. But when I had called to check on em the summer before, they told me 6-10 weeks.
Yes your hands are still well behind the fairing. That's why I went with the 8"
I chose to do away with the mirrors, You could leave the fairing mirrors, but the bars would be in the way really bad. Probly bad enought to make them useless. The mirrors I have are yaffe power mirrors I think. While they look good, they're really to small for my prefrance. Ordered em online and they were smaller than I thought. I'll probly try to find a little bit larger low profile mirror. From what I've read on here and other places, even the 10" monkey bars get in the way of the fairing mirrors too.