http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnr-LaFWRXs

Sorry for the lack of info, but I'll take a picture of the bar and talk about how I made it later, I'm tired and going to bed

Cool! Did you get to run any hot laps too, or just the parade?

Cool, interested to see how you went about it, looks alike mounted to a bar across the rear seat clips, or the headrests maybe?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wgIqEPeYg8

This guy needs to cut back on the caffine.......

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 **** 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......

Good thing no one got hurt.

Zach on the other hand... very cool!

I wouldn't be surprised if he was asked to stay off the track after that little performance.

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.

Yeah I went with rear for 2 reasons:

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.

does anyone know of any ready made camera mounts like this that go on the rear seats?

Not that I'm aware of, wasn't too difficult to make though. Tool wise you just need a drill and a hacksaw.

Cruisecam has a rear seats mount. http://www.cruisecam.com/products.html

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.