Received a 24" x 48" sheet of adhesive-backed heat shield foil from Amazon earlier this afternoon ... and since I cannot go riding due to all the wildfire road closures and dangerous air-quality due to the wildfires, I decided to take a stab at installing this heat shield foil on the Multi 1260s. It was much easier than expected ... the most difficult part: removing the backing from the foil, once it has been cut to shape. I decided to do the pilot seat front area where the heat from the rear cylinder rises upwards, as well as the two under-seat side panels, and the fuel sensor ... as I am not fully convinced that heat from the rear cylinder is not effecting the fuel sensor, and perhaps causing, or playing a role along with ethanol in the fuel, in causing the fuel sensors in our Multis to take a poop and stop working. Not bad for a little over one hour of work, from removing the seat and side panels to re-installing them with the heat-shield foil installed. The real test will be once I can go riding again, as I am certain we will still have ambient outdoor temps in the mid to high 90ºF ... if not low 100ºF ... so a decent "seat of the pants" test.
I ended up removing the seat riser plastic piece and adding more heat-shield so it covers the entire front underseat. The heat-shield foil is very easy to piece together to cover everything.
The heat has to go somewhere so it will be interesting to hear what a test ride feels like, hopefully you will just have hot legs and not a cooked ECU under the seat!
I saw this post on Facebook, and that was my thought. It's gonna bounce all that heat back on the electronics. I will watch with interest too
not sure why folk believe that channeling the heat from the rear cylinder away from the bottom of the pilot's seat is somehow going to affect the ECU ... when the ECU (at least on my 1260s) is located way forward and above the rear cylinder, on the front top of the airbox (the ECU is item #1 in the attached screengrab from parts manual). please explain your logic as to how redirected heat from behind the rear cylinder will somehow manage to come anywhere near the ECU?
I assume the battery is still under the pilot seat though ? There are plenty of other trickal bits there too. Dont get me wrong, I hope it works so I can do it too, but I won't until you can tell us yours has no issues (please)
