Home Depot mods rule!

[shenanigans]

I love Home Depot mods...

just finished one, working on my next, 1st was a $2 battery tie down, and I am about 2/3rds done with my $5 in car camera mount [img]smile.gif[/img]

And who can forget about ghetto smooth bellow

[nikon]

ok details on the camera mount....PLEASE!!!

[97rs4life]

yea let's here how the camera mount goes

[tWiStEdBird]

Originally posted by nikon:
ok details on the camera mount....PLEASE!!!

x2

[shenanigans]

Its built works decet I might have a few bugs to work out...

Just to warn you, you will need a t-top car for it to work.

I was ding a first test run on it today, and after getting on it heard a loud noise, then alot of grinding.

pulled over into a tire kingdome checked out the rears, and notice one of my calipers is cockeyed, I pulle the wheel, and notice one of the caliper bolts is missing. WTF? rear calipers have NEVER been off on this car, ever. lost one bolt other was finger loose.

Wasn't Home Depot but LOWES SAVED THE DAY! had the bolt I needed metric, I believe it was 12 X 1.75 or 20 X 1.75, the bolt I had was about a 1/4 in too long but I fixed that with 2 washers.

Kinda scary when you lose a caliper bolt at 5pm the night before an road race that you need to leave around 6am. for.

[3.4 slow to go]

no, scary is having your front tires on a fwd car lock up while going 60 only to find out the pinion gear decided to hug the carrier.

[Mogobs30th]

Originally posted by 3.4 slow to go:
no, scary is having your front tires on a fwd car lock up while going 60 only to find out the pinion gear decided to hug the carrier.

That wouldn't happen if you STOPPED WORKING ON CARS!!!! :eek:

[3.4 slow to go]

I wasn't working on cars at the time, and it ws one of those RARE subaru wagos w/o 4wd.

[shenanigans]

Originally posted by Mogobs30th:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by 3.4 slow to go:
no, scary is having your front tires on a fwd car lock up while going 60 only to find out the pinion gear decided to hug the carrier.

That wouldn't happen if you STOPPED WORKING ON CARS!!!! :eek: </font>[/QUOTE]Its funny because I have like $300 in brake stuff to basically do anything and everything on the brakes, but I decided to wait till after today in case something wierd came up don't wanna change up things to much be for an important day with my car.

Then bam.

[Everglades W68]

Genuine Home Depot parts!

http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/605303/5

The name ""Home Depot" mods sounds better than "Lowes" mods - but in reality Lowes is 1000% better than Home Depot.

Also, don't forget about the washers or plastic spacers mod - for raising the airbox up higher.

[HAZ-Matt]

Lowes is better if you need some sort of cosmetic thing like a faucet, but for basic stuff like nuts and bolts and other materials, I'd rather go to Home Depot.

[3.4 slow to go]

Lowes & e-bay hooed me up w/the $37 intake mod

[shenanigans]

Originally posted by HAZ-Matt:
Lowes is better if you need some sort of cosmetic thing like a faucet, but for basic stuff like nuts and bolts and other materials, I'd rather go to Home Depot.

I like lowes better, for bolts, they have a wider variety of specialty bolts and more importantly they have METRIC.

[shenanigans]

PS my camera mount worked great, I used parts I had at work and parts form home depot.


2 L brackets

I took off the rear t-top reciever plastic trim covers off, took off the front mount bolt, Put the L-bracket through the hole(I had to drill the hole a little bigger) Then had to bend it up a little to get it back and even(really easy) then put the t-top reciver covers back on.

then I used 2 1in banner sticks(common crap from a movie theatre) or you could just get a piece of boxed steel, use it to connect both l-brackets.

Then make some sort of L-shaped bracket, to hang down. Then use a 1/4 in bolt and a few nuts for it.


I made the L-shape bracket out of a strip of metal with holes in it. I used one part to make a battery strap down, used the other one here. Put the bolt through it, then tightened the botl on,t hen put another nut on it. Mount the camera on the bolt, and bend the bracket till its aimed right.

WOrked great... Held up even when I was loosing the tail, over corrected and did a 360 with my head bouncing around. Even bounced off the brace across the back myself.

[Everglades W68]

Hmmm,

I think I'll try making one of those camera mounts.