Dear Flat Foot Racin,

This is something I have a little bit of experience with.

I have been using some cheap, MPEG 4, Compact Flash, "Aiptek"
video recorders. Click on the following link:

http://www.productshub.com/Aiptek-DV5100F/

They cost about 99.99 dollars at Walgreen Drug Stores. Very
common store in Southern California.

They are about 3" long X 3" tall and 1 inch wide. You can put
a 2 gigabyte compact flash chip in them. That will cost you an
extra 40.00 dollars for the chip. It uses two AA batteries. I use
the Lithium batteries. That will cost you another 10.00 dollars for
two. So you got about 150.00 dollar per camera.

The 2 gig chip is good for about 2 hour of High resolution recording.


What I have been doin' is using 4 of these cameras. Sometimes
I mount two forward and two backwards. Sometimes I have
the camera pointing at the driver's face or maybe I may stick one
on a nerf bar. Sometimes I will mount one above the Left shoulder
of the driver facing forward or backwards.

If you buy a surviellance splitter at "Fry's Electronics", that allows
you to plug 4 cameras into the device and split the TV screen
into 4 segments. This is only used when you down load the video
from each camera. You just sink all four camera to the same
spot when you start your recording from the video cameras
to a VHS tape of DVD at a later time.

Let's say you bring the car up to the starting line. Well,
after recording all 4 videos you stop each camera when the
car gets to the line. Then start all four at the same time
and then record the video to a VHS tape or DVD in a 4 screen/split
configuration.

The surviellance splitter costs around 99.99 dollars also.

For mounting I just use a roll of eletrical tape for each camera.

I just tape the camera to any roll bar or frame part. I make sure the
camera is solidly mounted to the frame rail or nerf bar with the
electrical tape. I tape all the cracks and crevices in each camera
case when I install it to the roll bar. I don't want the battery
compartment coming off or any dirt getting into the tiny crevices of the cameras.

These camera are very easy to use. Push one button to turn it
on. Push another button to start recording and when the car
comes in, push it again to stop the recording.

Later on plug the camera into a VCR or DVR for viewing and editing.

Larry "O" and good luck!:applaud: