r0man Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 Installed Evotech recently. Looks great and protects well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member washufiddyfo Posted April 24, 2018 Premium Member Share Posted April 24, 2018 Got mine on as well. Was springing even more than the others appeared to be but also went on fine. It came with four (silicone?) bushings/spacers that I didn't see in any of the pictures online, which answered my own prior question about if there was enough room to clear some nuts between the guard and the radiator. This let me mount some LED strips to it to replace my old ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mftic Posted June 11, 2018 Share Posted June 11, 2018 Question Ordered a Evotech and this is what came The 2 side holes do not line up and that would be the most logical place to mount it. Not with the included brackets. Someone confirm that this is really for an fZ-09 so i can send Evotech a picture of this wrong one please, LOL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koth442 Posted June 11, 2018 Share Posted June 11, 2018 Image is too small and it won't let me open it without logging in. '15 FJ09 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporting Member texscottyd Posted June 11, 2018 Supporting Member Share Posted June 11, 2018 @mftic - Hard to tell for sure from the picture, but that looks wrong. The correct Evotech bolts directly to the radiator side mounts (without any additional brackets) and should have cutouts in the upper corners to access bodywork fasteners. This is what the FJ specific part should look like: https://motostarz.com/collections/evotech-performance/products/evotech-performance-aluminium-radiator-guard-for-2015-2018-yamaha-fj09-mt09-tracer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporting Member betoney Posted June 12, 2018 Supporting Member Share Posted June 12, 2018 @washufiddyfo Tell me about the LED strips you used. Funny, I was recently looking at doing the EXACT same thing, vertically on the radiator guard. ***2015 Candy Red FJ-09*** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member washufiddyfo Posted June 13, 2018 Premium Member Share Posted June 13, 2018 @mftic Looking at mine, that is definitely not the correct piece. The hole pattern is not correct; that one has holes centered in the peaks on the side, and looks like is some sort of silver insert there, both inconsistent with what you should have received. And as already mentioned, there are no other brackets required for our model, and you should have cutouts towards the top of each side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member washufiddyfo Posted June 13, 2018 Premium Member Share Posted June 13, 2018 @betoney I used some generic cheap waterproof LED strips that I had around from an old project. I don't have a link but if you search "COB LED strip waterproof" or something like that on your favorite shopping site you should find something suitable for this. Looking at the box, these were 6 watts each, and measured about 5.5" long. You could probably get away with longer if you mounted higher up. It didn't have a color temperature indicated, which is a minor annoyance as I would have preferred the color to more closely match the headlamps. Maybe a warm white version would solve this, but it's not a big enough bother for me to change out at this point. As far as the install goes, I figured I'd experiment and see what would happen. I'm sure there's a better way, but here's what I did. I installed some nylon nuts through the mesh near the provided black spacers, and then used the dremel to cut off the excess screw and flatten/rough up the tops of the screws. Idea for the nylon was just to minimize any heat transfer to the strips if that mattered, but also made it a lot easier to dremel. I then figured out where they would contact the adhesive on the LED strip, and scraped away the adhesive there. I then used a bunch of black silicone as an adhesive and put some in the holes I just made, pressed into place. The original idea was that this would just adhere the screws to the LED strip, and allow me to just unscrew them if they need to be replaced, but with everything out I just decided for good measure to spread a bunch of silicone through the mesh on the back all along the length of the light. For the wiring, they are spliced into the side blinker wiring on each side using positaps. I already had those there from the knuckleguard running/turning lights. I tucked the wire behind the guard and ran up into the housing. On the left side, I did put a tiny notch in the plastic to let it run right up. I think it's a great add on, provides a ton of visibility without blinding other drivers, and also illuminates the road right in front of you like a fog light would. Back Front of guard, back of LED strip Lovely silicone work Testing Left side wiring Right side wiring Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporting Member betoney Posted June 13, 2018 Supporting Member Share Posted June 13, 2018 @washufiddyfo. Thanks for the detailed write up with pictures! I will search for some of those lights. ***2015 Candy Red FJ-09*** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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