I keep meaning to re-post my write up publicly and it keeps slipping my mind. I have had 3 or 4 people PM me about it. Maybe it could be sticked in the C3 area?
Anyhow here is my write up as posted before. The camera was installed on a 2000 Pontiac Firebird under the bumper in front of the plastic airdam.
Here I will try to go into a little more detail on how I got my C3 installed on the front lip bumper area.
I now have two C3 cameras. This first of the two was used in this install and was ordered from SpyTec and for one reason or another they only carry the 90 Degree shot cable lens so I had to make do.
So I ordered a cable extension from
USBFirewire I used the 6 FT straight extension (PART #RR-5S-5F-72G)
Until
willy510 had mentioned it I could not find extensions anywhere. I looked on Amazon and eBay with no luck.
So I would like to sneak a note in that if a C4 is developed if it is able to use multiple lenses then I guess the Mini is okay to fit more ports, but a slightly bigger case with a regular size HDMI might be something to look into.
Anyway I had to do a little DIY to pull this off. When I bought my C3 I was trying to use the head mount and the lens holder snapped off of the head mount. So to make the best of a bad situation I was able to pull the soft backing off of the holder and attach some dual lock tape.
Testing has shown this to stay in place really well. It only came loose one time and that was because this is a very low sitting car, and pulling into a drive the front end hit the dip.
This caused the camera to freeze recording and it needed to be restarted (This has happened twice so far the other time it froze while just being parked up).
To my knowledge
The lens wire is run up near the coolant bottle and hood latch behind the headlight. So far it seems to clear the pop up headlight.
in front of the battery
and tucked into a fender hood gap rail.
This is also where the extension takes over. as you can see it is taped together and taped into the rail so it is protected.
The extension is then run along inside the door
Then inside the cabin where it just reaches enough to be clipped to where a visor would be.