After thinking a lot about it I finally got around to building my in car camera set up. I had planned on building a system to mount it to my passenger seat but I ended up using my camera tripod. The only other materials I needed was a tie down attachment point and an adjustable bungie.

If anyone else tries the same thing, I would recommend a small tie down since the bungie can give a little. Fortunately I can mount my tripod in a way that locks it down in the back, but if yours will be free standing I recommend the tie down replacement for the bungie.

In case any of you are wondering what the plate I put the hook in was for, its the cover for the shifer linkage that goes between the shifter up front and the engine in back.

I have given the system a hardcore test and it works great. I also have a great view of my tach, speedo and boost guage from the camera.

Since its one of the sony night cams even in normal mode its able to record well at night.

 

nice job.

 

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looks good dude, take it out for some rough driving and see if it stays

 

I already have.

I've got some great video of some Tampa Palms slaloms and accelleration and deceleration tests. Even though it has the steady cam feature I left it off and it was still really stable.

Unless I hit something solid its not going anywhere.

If I get some good footage of the auto-x I have digital Hi8 if anyone would like to convert it to a web format for me. I can even host the file once it is converted.

 

yeah... i say we do the tampa palms GP one day...bruce b downs to amberly,amberly back to bruce b downs...the long way...it would be great not legal...but great.

 

dude. . . im fairly certain that wont pass tech. . . .

 

It does not move, so it should. Tech only specifies that you can't have loose shit in your car, not that that everythng in your car can survive a 50 MPH collision.

Just to make it even more solid I might add a small tie down in addition to the bungee. The bungee keeps it stable but if you pull on the camera mount really hard you can get it to move an inch or two when the bungee stretches.

I have seen someone used a tied down tripod before which is where I got the idea from. Then again I could always get some tech that wants to be an ass cause its not BOLTED in.