5.0kid

Any one ever made a camera mount to go on the cross beam for the main hoop? I see a lot of nice ones online for over $150.00 seems expensive and they don't even keep the shakes out all the time.

elmo3000

I have just bought an amazing camera from GoPro. They are made specifically for the car as they do one which is called, HD Hero Wide Motorsport..... that is the one I have. The whole kit costs around 300 bucks, but you get the mounts, the HD camera, HD Video camera, which can also film at 60 fps so that if you want to do slow mo playback you can with ultra smooth footage. You can also do a time lapse.

I know I sound like a commercial..... but I was so impressed with mine. Oh and you can place it on the outside of the car..... and the sound is fine, none of that horrible wind noise.

Just a FYI!

5.0kid

yeah i have a go pro as well. its nice but not what im looking for. I have a true HD video camera that i want to mount in the car once and a while. Mainly for data logging purposes. The go pro is nice but just not what Im looking for right now.

67mustang302

There are issues with using a camera not designed for use in a race car. It's all vibration related. You can vibrate it till parts break, because they're not designed for it, and you can get horrible quality because the camera is shaking. If it's not designed to stabilize the picture(with or without a vibration isolator) you'll get terrible quality. As long as the camera is designed to handle the vibration there's no reason it shouldn't work. If you can fabricate/weld then you could make a mount and go buy a vibration isolator for it and be good to go.

luckythirteen13

since your having your cage built right now i would just have your builder add one for you. assuming your going to mount it just over your shoulder sitting on the cross bar in the middle of the hoop......
take a short piece of 1" OD pipe (length is up to you, determined by how high you need the camera mounted) and weld a flat piece of steel on top of it. so now you basically have a capped off pedistal sticking up from the cross bar of the hoop. get a bolt that screws into the bottom of your camera. weld the head of that bolt to the pedistal welded to the cage. you can now screw the camera onto the bolt when you want to record, unscrew it to take the camera out. make the bolt a little longer then you need so you can but a nut onto the bolt before the camera, that way when the camera is in place the nut can be threaded up to the bottom of the camera to lock it into place....
make sense?

5.0kid

makes perfect sense. I understand what your saying