More exhaust noise from my Rover 5000TC

302Rover

302Rover

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All,
yesterday I mounted my cheapo Chinese $14.78 video camera to the rear jacking point and aimed it towards the twin tail pipes. Some of you may recall that I fitted a Ford 5 litre V8, a 300 hp crate motor from Ford Racing, into my Rover 2000TC. It is coupled to a Tremec 5 speed gearbox and a Jaguar XJS diff.

Anyway assuming you have 5:54 worth of time to waste, you may be interested in boring yourselves by seeing the curbs rush by as I drive through my neighborhood, pissing off all and sundry with the noise. Mostly I couldn't get into much more than 2nd gear and the few times I did up shift you can hear the tires chirp. Enjoy or shake your heads in wonder, whichever suits;-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLheQZZ- ... e=youtu.be
 
I wonder how long your cheapo Chinese $14.78 video camera will last subjected to that :LOL:
Although the sound is peaking and distorting you can just tell how nice that sounds in the flesh!
One of my favourite P6's and I've only seen a few photos! Would love to see some more of the car in general, drive-by videos would be great :wink:
Jim
 
corazon said:
I wonder how long your cheapo Chinese $14.78 video camera will last subjected to that :LOL:
Although the sound is peaking and distorting you can just tell how nice that sounds in the flesh!
One of my favourite P6's and I've only seen a few photos! Would love to see some more of the car in general, drive-by videos would be great :wink:
Jim
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Hi Jim,
yes, you are right, the sound is distorted, probably because the camera was too close to the pipes. I figured the camera might not last too long but for the price, what can you really expect? ;-)

I did a full description, along with photos, about a year ago on the Forum but unfortunately the photos disappeared. Not sure what happened there. I also did a lengthy write up on the conversion to the Jaguar XJS diff and that remains intact on the Forum.

The main reason I bought the camera was to get video of the diff to see how my mount scheme was acting and how much, if any, movement was occuring under hard acceleration. The video is totally boring but did convince me that the mount scheme is working well.

Cheers,
Tom
 
That sounds lovely .
BTW i think the pictures were lost when the forum changed server . :D
 
Oh I know your jag diff mount thread very well, I'll be doing something very similar with my 4ha soon :wink:
What I wrote late last night wasn't very coherent
I didn't mean you can only just tell how nice it sounds, rather you can definitely tell how nice it sounds regardless of the distortion :D
Jim
 
302Rover said:
The main reason I bought the camera was to get video of the diff to see how my mount scheme was acting and how much, if any, movement was occuring under hard acceleration. The video is totally boring but did convince me that the mount scheme is working well.
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Now that I would like to see :shock:

Love the sound that exhaust makes, but would seriously like to see the diff video :D

Richard
 
quattro said:
302Rover said:
The main reason I bought the camera was to get video of the diff to see how my mount scheme was acting and how much, if any, movement was occuring under hard acceleration. The video is totally boring but did convince me that the mount scheme is working well.
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Now that I would like to see :shock:

Love the sound that exhaust makes, but would seriously like to see the diff video :D

Richard
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Hi Richard,
the diff video shows very little and has some flaws. I mounted the camera upside down, hence the image shows the bottom of the diff on top, and right is switched to left. The camera mounting point was on the front diff cross member but the field of view is narrow so you can only see a bit of the prop shaft, the bottom of the diff (on top in the video), and one of the 4 support struts. However for engineering purposes one can see that there is no rotational movement of the diff about the out put shaft centerline and some rotational movement about the north south axis of the car. This is due to the flexibility in the stock Rover rubber mounts that I retained. I'm guessing the amount of movement due to mount flexing is about the same as with the stock Rover diff but can't really say that with any degree of certainity.

Having said that, if you really want to see this video I will upload it to YouTube anyway. Actually, check that last offer. I just reviewed the video and think what I will do instead is mount the camera at a better point or borrow a better camera and re-shoot it. There is a lot more that can be learned from a proper video so let me do some more work on this.

Cheers,
Tom
 
I use one of these:

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They are cheap, have a very basic nightvision feature and I can turn the datestamp stuff off. It records basic 780HD for youtube, and I could get some decent details on playback. The only issue I have is the sound quality when mounted externally and near high volume stuff like the exhaust. I've thought about opening it up and seeing if it's possible to have an external microphone fitted.
 
sowen said:
I use one of these:

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They are cheap, have a very basic nightvision feature and I can turn the datestamp stuff off. It records basic 780HD for youtube, and I could get some decent details on playback. The only issue I have is the sound quality when mounted externally and near high volume stuff like the exhaust. I've thought about opening it up and seeing if it's possible to have an external microphone fitted.
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Hi Simon,
I've been looking at these on ebay and may pull the trigger on one. Thanks for the advice. I assume you can ditch the suction cup in favor of some sort of bolt-on mount? These cheap, very small video cameras are a boon to diagnosing under carriage problems and if one gets ruined, no great loss.

Cheers,
Tom
 
The threaded insert is 1/4unc, same as my other camera. To do the videos I made underneath I used an offcut of aluminium bolted to the body, and the camera bolted to that. I found it didn't rattle around and vibrate as I expected. I've bought a second on of those and it has a different threaded insert, metric M6 possibly so they are clearly not all the same, but close enough!
 
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