NorCal (Bay Area) DRIVE Chat Thread

[bestwheelbase]

Originally Posted by Clipdat

My wife keeps saying there's no way I am getting up that early, gotta prove her wrong!

Careful. Then she might throw the curveball. "You never get up this early to clean the house."

[MyRx]

@PMok or any gopro user - have you tried attaching the gopro onto the tow hook? I'm heading out to BestBuy to see if an attachment can be manipulated. Thinking a front and rear tow hook attachement. Let's see those angles.

[BigFatFlip]

Originally Posted by MyRx

@PMok or any gopro user - have you tried attaching the gopro onto the tow hook? I'm heading out to BestBuy to see if an attachment can be manipulated. Thinking a front and rear tow hook attachement. Let's see those angles.

Funny you mentioned that, I've been working on an adapter that allows me to mouth my gopro onto the tow hook (front or back). I've got my aluminum block but haven't been able to sneak into the machine shop in a while.

[overlookedx]

Originally Posted by MyRx

@PMok or any gopro user - have you tried attaching the gopro onto the tow hook? I'm heading out to BestBuy to see if an attachment can be manipulated. Thinking a front and rear tow hook attachement. Let's see those angles.

I haven't tried doing that yet, but have seen a product out there that is a tow hook with a go-pro mount on the end. Don't remember if it was for the BRZ, or where I saw it, but yeah it exists.

I haven't used my GoPro with the BRZ yet. I like the angle to be low to the ground so you get that sense of speed, there was a perfect cutout in my WRX front bumper for it, or I just mounted it to the front of the hood. Not sure where it'll go on the BRZ, though.

[Fizzle]

Originally Posted by BigFatFlip

Webster Starbucks sounds good to me, say 6:30? Should give us some time to grab some coffee and head out (20mins to CV I think)

Waitttt this is tomorrow morning??? How many people are going ? I have tome till 3!! I wanna go!

[BigFatFlip]

Originally Posted by Fizzle

Waitttt this is tomorrow morning??? How many people are going ? I have tome till 3!! I wanna go!

The post you quoted is for us folks coming from Alameda (more than welcome to join us). Here's is the actual plan, which I guess got buried from all the chat posts.

http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showp...0&postcount=24

[PMok]

Originally Posted by overlookedx

I haven't tried doing that yet, but have seen a product out there that is a tow hook with a go-pro mount on the end. Don't remember if it was for the BRZ, or where I saw it, but yeah it exists.

I haven't used my GoPro with the BRZ yet. I like the angle to be low to the ground so you get that sense of speed, there was a perfect cutout in my WRX front bumper for it, or I just mounted it to the front of the hood. Not sure where it'll go on the BRZ, though.

yeah I haven't attached it to the towhook either, but I was looking at the ptuning hook mount. It's pricey with all the accessories you would need, if you want to do license plate/tow hook/camera mount. I might just use some crazy amount of duct tape to attach the gopro to the front for that down low angle haha.

[MyRx]

Originally Posted by BigFatFlip

Funny you mentioned that, I've been working on an adapter that allows me to mouth my gopro onto the tow hook (front or back). I've got my aluminum block but haven't been able to sneak into the machine shop in a while.

Sweet! Let us know how it goes.
Thinking something to sit and bolt in the eyelet with a table/flat top for the mount. But you the man so ingenuity buddy.

[Kamakanani0]

Actually how many of us are going? Like 10 cars?

[BigFatFlip]

Originally Posted by MyRx

Sweet! Let us know how it goes.
Thinking something to sit and bolt in the eyelet with a table/flat top for the mount. But you the man so ingenuity buddy.

Yep, pretty much as you described. Just need to machine the holes to mount the gopro case (pretty tricky).

[Clipdat]

I counted 10 confirmed. Can we get a final count so we aren't waiting around in CV for people who aren't coming?

[SnakeEyes]

Originally Posted by Clipdat

I counted 10 confirmed. Can we get a final count so we aren't waiting around in CV for people who aren't coming?

Is there any dedicated thread going on for this meet which you're referring to?

[Clipdat]

Doesn't look like there is a dedicated thread yet, just discussion here and a mention in the meetup db thread.

@PMok- Make a dedicated thread!

[BigFatFlip]

Originally Posted by Clipdat

I counted 10 confirmed. Can we get a final count so we aren't waiting around in CV for people who aren't coming?

As P mentioned, we'll plan on rolling out at 7:30 unless somebody is running late, and if so, post here.

Originally Posted by SnakeEyes

Is there any dedicated thread going on for this meet which you're referring to?

Originally Posted by Clipdat

Doesn't look like there is a dedicated thread yet, just discussion here and a mention in the meetup db thread.

@PMok- Make a dedicated thread!

We've been planning morning drives on this thread for a while (think we've done 3-4 now) but they've all been small groups (3-4 people), I guess this one blew up and got pretty big for some reason (no fri night parties/clubbing? lol). Up to you Pmok.