Front Camera Mounting Locations
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Front Camera Mounting Locations
For those of you with touch screen head units in stalled in your C5 Vette, have you installed a front camera> If so, where did you mount the camera? I am installing a touchscreen head unit which comes with a rear camera. The head unit has a connection for a front camera. I am considering the front camera just because I can, and to address the parking lot curb thing.
Racer
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From: Lafayette LA
I just finished with this after messing with it off and on for a few weeks.
Routed a rear camera, and a front just to do it. There's really not many places to put the front one. If you put it in the center you're likely going to scrape it. I stuck mine on the side but I'm going to swap it out with another type of camera. This one is flat mounted and non-adjustable. So it basically points straight at the ground and I can't really see what I'm looking at in context to the horizon. For the rear, this camera is great, for the front not so much.
Routed a rear camera, and a front just to do it. There's really not many places to put the front one. If you put it in the center you're likely going to scrape it. I stuck mine on the side but I'm going to swap it out with another type of camera. This one is flat mounted and non-adjustable. So it basically points straight at the ground and I can't really see what I'm looking at in context to the horizon. For the rear, this camera is great, for the front not so much.
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Drifting
Joined: Jun 2014
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From: Chicago Illinois
I just finished with this after messing with it off and on for a few weeks.
Routed a rear camera, and a front just to do it. There's really not many places to put the front one. If you put it in the center you're likely going to scrape it. I stuck mine on the side but I'm going to swap it out with another type of camera. This one is flat mounted and non-adjustable. So it basically points straight at the ground and I can't really see what I'm looking at in context to the horizon. For the rear, this camera is great, for the front not so much.
Routed a rear camera, and a front just to do it. There's really not many places to put the front one. If you put it in the center you're likely going to scrape it. I stuck mine on the side but I'm going to swap it out with another type of camera. This one is flat mounted and non-adjustable. So it basically points straight at the ground and I can't really see what I'm looking at in context to the horizon. For the rear, this camera is great, for the front not so much.
Racer
Joined: May 2016
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From: Lafayette LA
I'm not really sure yet, but any camera that I can adjust and aim higher. I wanted one for the front just to be able to see how close the front comes to scraping on certain things. I don't need it, or plan to really use it much. Just something cool to add for the hell of it. I'll likely just get any camera that's adjustable that I can put in the same spot and fit under that crash bar. I just want to make sure it's protected and that I can point it more forward to be able to see the car/horizon as a reference.
Here's a video of mine and how it points. It's forward and aggressively down. Sure, you can see things, but nothing in context to how close it is to the car itself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv6jW6GIuh0
Here's a video of mine and how it points. It's forward and aggressively down. Sure, you can see things, but nothing in context to how close it is to the car itself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv6jW6GIuh0
