DIY: In-car camera mount.

[MK3Brent]

Parts needed:
Simple old steel strips (2) 4.5" long x 1" width
(2) 8" long bolts with wing-nuts
(1) Rubber vibration insulator for the next bolt \/
(1) Small bolt that matches the thread to your camera's tripod mount point.


I think the pictures will explain more than anything I could write, so check it out.

For the 90° bend you see, all I did was put it in a vice and bend it.
Then weld.

For the two strips I used, I cut them to 4.5" widths to clear the head-rest. (it's a tight snug fit.)

Although the head-rest is soft, I still used a small 1/8" rubber insulator to protect the camera from vibration from metal to metal. (Not really necessary but just something I did."

(All assembled.)


(Here is that insulator I was mentioning.)

(Where you weld of course.)

And here is what it should look like when you're done!

**You can also attach it to the driver's side.**

 

[robbo185]

thats simple and its in the mkIII price range!!! nice work!

 

[JustAnotherVictim]

I thought this was for hit and runs.

 

[IJ.]

Brent: Nice concept I've been struggling with this for ages now and have been using a tripod jammed behind the seats but it's not secure enough for cornering G's!

 

[suprahero]

Hell IJ, your car would break his welds................:biglaugh:

 

[born2drv]

what's this for? what are you filming?

if you want an easier way, just go to ebay and get a window mount kit... it's just a clamp that mount on your window after you roll it down. Or you could clamp it on anything really that is solid and about 1" thick or less. And it has a camera screw base too that fits where any standard camera would.

 

[IJ.]

B2: At 155+ my windows move around a bit

Does it actually clamp to the glass or does it jam in with the window full up?

 

[born2drv]

no it clamps to the glass, very firm.... you could roll your window up or down, but not all the way of course either way.... something like this:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Bushnell-Camera...0QQihZ018QQcategoryZ97006QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem


there's another kind like this one too with some kind of suction cup that attaches to the windshield from the inside if you didn't want it on the door window...
http://cgi.ebay.com/Camera-Window-M...45QQihZ004QQcategoryZ3325QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

i've never tried that one before though.

i used the window mount clamp-type one to clamp onto tables and such for taking macro photos of small things for my work and it works great.

 

[IJ.]

B2: Thanks!

 

[suprahero]

It looks like he's got it aimed at his instrument panel. I don't know if that clears the dash or not.................:dunno:

 

[IJ.]

I bought a spare tripod to chop up if I can figure out a secure easy to remove mount for it......

 

[born2drv]

you could probably use the suction cup one to attach to the rear hatch glass, and point it to the dash .... that's why i asked what he was filming... if he was changing angles a lot manually, etc.

but they make various tripods, monopods, boom-mounted tripods and other specialty tripods for just about everything if you look hard enough.

 

[IJ.]

I was thinking of a saddle mount over the trans tunnel behind the seats so the Tripod Vertical just drops into the tube then tighten up a QR clamp.

 

[MK3Brent]

I'm just using it to film the dash gauges ect... WB.

It can even get the window for door to door racing ect.

It was just a slow day, and I felt like whipping something up.

 

[supra90turbo]

tripod in the backseat with a tie down anchored to a seatbelt worked for me in my subaru this winter, Ian.

 

[tekdeus]

The suction cup model in the 2nd link is the way to go I'd say. At the Suprafest autocross, a guy had this type of thing and successfully taped from the windshield plus he did a run with it stuck to his hood facing his face for another unique angle.

no it clamps to the glass, very firm.... you could roll your window up or down, but not all the way of course either way.... something like this:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Bushnell-Camera...0QQihZ018QQcategoryZ97006QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem


there's another kind like this one too with some kind of suction cup that attaches to the windshield from the inside if you didn't want it on the door window...
http://cgi.ebay.com/Camera-Window-M...45QQihZ004QQcategoryZ3325QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

i've never tried that one before though.

i used the window mount clamp-type one to clamp onto tables and such for taking macro photos of small things for my work and it works great.

 

[MK3Brent]

Old thread but thought I'd bump it to show some videos I've made using it.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpuLgO2qv6M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSUOAbNGOBc&mode=user&search= (Old turbo)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qXMu8LJavY&mode=user&search=

 

[KeithH]

I'll have to dig up the tapes. Back in 1997 I set up two web-cams on my 89T. One was mounted in the front grill (less than a foot off the road) and the other was mounted off the rear spoiler.

I am working on plans for a new camera mount - top secret for now - that should give me some GREAT pics while driving around Las Vegas this fall (shameless SILV07 plug here).

 

[IJ.]

Keith: Yes please! (old vids)

 

[SacoMan]

Thats an interesting setup and quite inexpensive, webcams!!! bad thing about the cheaper ones its the poor resolution they have but hey I want to see it!