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lol yeah I can't say the thought didn't cross my mind that I probably had room to do that with, but I figured these were people that I was going to hang out with when I got off the track, why piss anybody off? I was looking for my car in his video before I saw it was 2008 though lol
Alright well anyhow, here's a picture of the camera bar. Sorry it's so blurry, but it's just 3/4 aluminum square tubing cut to length and drilled, then painted black. I replaced the regular nuts on the u-tubes for wing nuts so that I can remove it without tools, and the tripod I gutted I needed to go to home depot and finder a longer screw that normally held the legs in so that I could make it go all the way through the aluminum.
As an after thought, it would have been really cool to have it pointing backwards, the view of the track would have been good I bet.
I did something very similar, only I had it mounted to my front seat headrests, which worked just fine till you wanted to move one or the other seat! So I modified it to just mount to one headrest.
Mounting it in the rear gives a lot more view of the driver, but you do lose some of the scope of the action in front of you on the track. Mounting it to the front seat gives a better view out the windshild, but not so much of the driver - it's a tough choice. Oh, and of course mounting it to the front seat means you can reach it to turn it on and off......
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lol yeah I can't say the thought didn't cross my mind that I probably had room to do that with, but I figured these were people that I was going to hang out with when I got off the track, why piss anybody off? I was looking for my car in his video before I saw it was 2008 though lol
Alright well anyhow, here's a picture of the camera bar. Sorry it's so blurry, but it's just 3/4 aluminum square tubing cut to length and drilled, then painted black. I replaced the regular nuts on the u-tubes for wing nuts so that I can remove it without tools, and the tripod I gutted I needed to go to home depot and finder a longer screw that normally held the legs in so that I could make it go all the way through the aluminum.
As an after thought, it would have been really cool to have it pointing backwards, the view of the track would have been good I bet.
Excellent affordable mounts! I've got a few I've made every similar to that, and I must say I am intrigued by some of the improvements you've made over the common design (I've seen many how-to's spread among dedicated racing and HPDE forums), and I think I'll be pulling out the can of spray paint this week at the very least.
Mine so far have been of the one headrest up front variety. The dual in the rear certainly has some potential.
1. driver and passenger safety was a must, and ultimately if you have a square piece of aluminum sticking out of either headrest, you have a pointy end somewhere around somebody's head. Sure attaching the front seats together would fix that, but the reason that's not a good idea has already been covered...
2. The rear seats when in their upright position are fixed on either side to the side of the car, therefore, in theory, giving more stability to the camera versus the front seats which have provisions for bending in the middle, and only have a locking position holding the middle in a fixed position... if that makes any sense.
thanks for the reply. I ended getting a cheap $20 panavise mount for the time being just to tinker with at first. It was the same one that came with my Dash Express GPS module and I knew it was sturdy as hell so (massive suction cup with locking thingy) I got one for my DSLR camera.
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