I remember seeing ages ago on a set of fairings someone had stuck aluminium foil to the inside of them to help keep the plastic cool and stop the paint cracking from the engine heat.

A roll of foil is cheap, would you advise doing this to my fairings to help improve there life?

its a bi thicker than domestic foil. more like the self stick stuff used to joint plasterboard.

CRM wrote:its a bi thicker than domestic foil. more like the self stick stuff used to joint plasterboard.

I wish i had thought about it before, i could have nicked all the off cuts from the days i worked at marcus sportcars

That silver stick on insulation foil they sell in B&Q or wickes should do the trick

Drunkn Munky wrote:That silver stick on insulation foil they sell in B&Q or wickes should do the trick

Rightio then, ill have a looksie in there trade catalogue


In screw fix they have Radiator Reflector foil but it has to be glued on

We used to use contact adeshive on the car chassis with the heat proof material and then taped the edges.

If i can find the foil tape then i could do the same on this with the reflector stuff as its only £7 for 5m

Let me know what you decide on as i need to do the fairings on my gsxr before any more paint bubbles up after the so called dream machine didnt refit the heat protection when it was painted

Drunkn Munky wrote:Let me know what you decide on as i need to do the fairings on my gsxr before any more paint bubbles up after the so called dream machine didnt refit the heat protection when it was painted

Just priced it up just under £20 for it, so going to do it and save money having to repaint the paintwork from heat damage.

Screwfix numbers:
35529 - £9.35 - tape
10612 - £6.86 - rad insulation
51081 - £2.99 - adhesive

chownsy wrote:

Drunkn Munky wrote:Let me know what you decide on as i need to do the fairings on my gsxr before any more paint bubbles up after the so called dream machine didnt refit the heat protection when it was painted

Just priced it up just under £20 for it, so going to do it and save money having to repaint the paintwork from heat damage.

Screwfix numbers:
35529 - £9.35 - tape
10612 - £6.86 - rad insulation
51081 - £2.99 - adhesive

hold your horses kiddo i have some self adhesive foil/insul tape used for pipe laggin,

let me know how much you need and ill dig you some out,

ideally i need to do both side fairings as i dont want my paintwork getting damaged from the heat off the engine.

and thanks for the offer

chownsy wrote:ideally i need to do both side fairings as i dont want my paintwork getting damaged from the heat off the engine.

and thanks for the offer

its the £8.99 thingy youve looked at screwfix,
i have posibly about 10m going spare which should see you fit?