I have recently made the move from a Stock seat to the DP Performance seat, courtesy of Al Pacino. Thank you BTW.
Well, even with the thicker padding on the seat, I noticed that the seat would still get hot, and fast. I had not yet swapped over the DEI Gold heat reflect tape I had on the stock yet.
But...I also noticed how well the Car Sun Screens work for keeping heat out of cars. A lot of the guys at my job use them everyday and I was quite impressed.
So, I had an idea
I not only swapped over my Heat tape, but created yet another barrier to the heat for the seat
I simply started off with a normal sun shade from Walmart for $10
I cut it to size and even made the slots in the back to make sure it couldn't move around
The tape swapped to the new seat and test fit of the heat shield.
Next to make sure everything stayed in place. This was done with Velcro....so that it can also be removed with ease
Velco was placed on the shield too of course.
Feeling the shade... noticed that it didn't not feel like aluminum...and more like plastic. So I was concerned about sticking it under the seat, on top of a super hot engine, and it just melting. Between the heat reflective layers is nothing but bubble wrap. i'm sure that is not made to take this kind of heat. So, I began wrapping it in aluminum tape
This way, if something does melt, it wont come out. All ends of the shield were wrapped.
Here the backside is still in need of wrapping. Although this looks like great heat reflective material, it appears to me to be only plastic
Front and back now wrapped in aluminum tape
Fits well....
NOTE: the seat isn't bolted down. It is only barely visible from the side. This is only because I was putting the camera right next to it...I don't think this will be visible to anyone unless they're attempting to look under the seat. And the seat wasn't even bolted down. Once doing that, it was even tighter to view it under the seat. I may simply but some black tape around the edges to mask it from view
My initial plan was to take temperature measurements with OEM seat, the DP seat with Gold tape, and the DP Seat with Gold Tape and the heat shield.
I took a baseline. Just having the OEM seat, letting the bike run for 15 mins and taking the temp information. But this turned out to take way too long to see a change in temps. The Seat took about 40 mins to change from 78* to 90*s... Which most of this change happened after the bike was off. We all know that it doesn't take that long for the temp to creep up in the seat. But I think I need a laser temp gauge or heat camera to really show a difference.
But I rode into work today with the shield on. Is there a difference? Of course. The seat itself never got hot on me...but what it did do, is make the heat that comes from AROUND the seat that much more noticeable. I had a 30-40 min ride in, the temps never got over 200, but the seat was never hot, or even warm. I could only feel the heat on the back of my thighs...it's hard to differentiate that.
Well, even with the thicker padding on the seat, I noticed that the seat would still get hot, and fast. I had not yet swapped over the DEI Gold heat reflect tape I had on the stock yet.
But...I also noticed how well the Car Sun Screens work for keeping heat out of cars. A lot of the guys at my job use them everyday and I was quite impressed.
So, I had an idea
I not only swapped over my Heat tape, but created yet another barrier to the heat for the seat
I simply started off with a normal sun shade from Walmart for $10
I cut it to size and even made the slots in the back to make sure it couldn't move around
The tape swapped to the new seat and test fit of the heat shield.
Next to make sure everything stayed in place. This was done with Velcro....so that it can also be removed with ease
Velco was placed on the shield too of course.
Feeling the shade... noticed that it didn't not feel like aluminum...and more like plastic. So I was concerned about sticking it under the seat, on top of a super hot engine, and it just melting. Between the heat reflective layers is nothing but bubble wrap. i'm sure that is not made to take this kind of heat. So, I began wrapping it in aluminum tape
This way, if something does melt, it wont come out. All ends of the shield were wrapped.
Here the backside is still in need of wrapping. Although this looks like great heat reflective material, it appears to me to be only plastic
Front and back now wrapped in aluminum tape
Fits well....
NOTE: the seat isn't bolted down. It is only barely visible from the side. This is only because I was putting the camera right next to it...I don't think this will be visible to anyone unless they're attempting to look under the seat. And the seat wasn't even bolted down. Once doing that, it was even tighter to view it under the seat. I may simply but some black tape around the edges to mask it from view
My initial plan was to take temperature measurements with OEM seat, the DP seat with Gold tape, and the DP Seat with Gold Tape and the heat shield.
I took a baseline. Just having the OEM seat, letting the bike run for 15 mins and taking the temp information. But this turned out to take way too long to see a change in temps. The Seat took about 40 mins to change from 78* to 90*s... Which most of this change happened after the bike was off. We all know that it doesn't take that long for the temp to creep up in the seat. But I think I need a laser temp gauge or heat camera to really show a difference.
But I rode into work today with the shield on. Is there a difference? Of course. The seat itself never got hot on me...but what it did do, is make the heat that comes from AROUND the seat that much more noticeable. I had a 30-40 min ride in, the temps never got over 200, but the seat was never hot, or even warm. I could only feel the heat on the back of my thighs...it's hard to differentiate that.
