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Whether it’s a day at the track or fooling around on a back country road, any great motoring experience is worth filming. Mounting a camera on or in a car can be difficult proposition as poor mounting can create a driving hazard, poor video quality, or a broken camera. One solution I stumbled upon several years ago uses the stock seats in our Integra’s to make a cost effective and quality mount. I would like to thank TI member Integra_Papa, for all of the quality photos and giving the mount a try. Also Thank you to SgtMillhouse648 for the video and his help posting the article. The parts list for this build is short and you would be hard pressed to spend more than $15 on the entire project assuming you have the drill, bits, and clamps. -One strip of aluminum about 3-4 feet in length and between 1/8” to 1/4”. The metal needs to be thin enough to bend by hand, but thick enough to support the camera. -An electric drill or a drill press. -Drill bits to make the holes. The holes for the headrest posts are 10mm so you will want to make the hole just slightly bigger to ensure a secure fit. -Clamps to hold the metal as you drill. -Stock Integra seats with the headrests. -A screw which mounts to the bottom of the camera, most use a 1/4-20 (1/4" diameter, 20 threads per inch) screw. Be sure to check before you buy this and also make sure the screw isn’t too long as you can damage your camera. Step 1. Remove the headrest from your passenger seat. This will serve as a template. [/b]  Step 2. You may need to cut the length of the metal, so trim it to about 2.5 feet which should give you plenty of room to bend the metal.  Step 3. Using the headrest posts as a guide mark the locations of where the holes need to go. Be sure to mark the holes near the end of the strip, giving yourself about 2” excess from the right hole to give the mount extra support. For reference each hole is 10mm and the distance from post to post is 62mm measuring from the center of each post. [/b]   Step 4. Once your holes are carefully drawn on the metal take your drill and clamps out. Once the metal is clamped down you can drill your hole using progressively larger bits until you have them at the size you need. Be sure to check the fit as you go, because you don’t want the holes to be any larger than necessary.   Step 5. The pictures don’t illustrate the bends which you will need to make for the mount. To allow the camera to have a good view out of the car, you need to make two 90 degree bends to elevate the camera. For this you will want to install the mount in your car as is. Sitting in the backseat, take note of where you want the camera to sit. Make one bend so the metal points towards the roof of the car and then after about 3”-5” (or whatever height you desire) bend the metal the opposite way as the first. When done you should have a ‘Z’ shaped piece of metal. It is also worth noting that you should not bend the metal while it is attached to the seat and you could damage the seat. Step 6. Finally on the opposite end of the metal strip drill your hole for the camera mount.  This project is super simple and yields very good results as you can see from this clip of SgtMillhouse648's car. Once again thanks to Integra_Papa for all of his work in building the mount and taking photos. This camera mount works well, and can be removed very easily I hope you find it as useful as I have! Submitted by xxx@******.com Revision 0 Article submitted on 4 Jul 2011 Viewed 2713 times |
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