Just PMed buss with this info. and though it might help some other people in a similar situation. I have an 07 rr with a two bros titanium slip and an FE kit. After the FE kit was installed there was a lot of excess heat shield exposed on the sides of the rear seat. I was reluctant to remove the entire heat shield because i was worried about the exhaust heat melting my plastics. So i painted the entire shield with a rattlecan of high temp exhaust paint and then cut the excess shield with a Dremel tool. Here are some pics of before during and after.
Before pic of excess shield showing lookin nasty and what not.


Here is a pic of my makeshift painting station. I went with primer gray to dull out the whole shield.

Here are some finished pics. I think it looks really clean and i don't have to worry about the heat ruining my plastics.


Hope this helps someone...

 

I have almost the exact same FE kit and same color bike, how much of the shield did you leave on there? The after looks great, but it doesn't look like there's anything left of the heat shield, which I'd imagine was the point of taking it off, painting and cutting it.

 

Don't need the shield. Take it off. I haven't had any problems with heat, not with my stock exhaust or with my jardine. Don't think anyone else on this forum has, either.

-Adam

 

yea i took my bottom shield off and have had no problems at all

 

I only cut off the pieces showing in the first two pics. Which the excess was worthless because it wasn't protecting anything anyways.

 

Sorry for the mutiple posts but you can see the heat shield down the right foot peg that i painted primer gray. it used to be that shiny silver...

 

Couldn't get my shield off to cut it so I had to do it while it was on. How'd you get the top off? I took out every screw I could see and it was still freakin stuck.

 

theres a screw underneath the rear seat. did you get that one?

 

for the record, i didn't remove my lower shield, only the upper. The lower i painted black with high-temp paint. But i stand by my statement that the upper heat shield is not needed.

-Adam

 

That's fine isolated, no one is telling you that your wrong? I just thought it might be helpful to post what i did to my heat shield...If people want to take the shield out completely that's fine. Personally, i feel that honda put the shield there for a reason, if its not needed then why did honda spend the extra production cost to put a part on a bike that's not needed? That's my 2 cents.