Westfield Hayabusa Turbo VIDEO

[dublinrob]

Here's a quick video of my busa turbo at Mondello. The sound quality on the in-car footage was so bad i couldnt really use much so i decided to have a go at making the vid a bit arty.

I was using a handheld Sony HD camera attached to the roll bar. For next time i know i can mount it more securely and stop the vibration to get a much clearer picture but i was wondering what microphones people use and where they mount them to get rid of the awfull wind noise?

The camera has standard mic/headphone jacks

[Kevin Jones]

You tease, wanted to see that at full chat    

[Tigger]

I usually tape my mic to the scuttle just behind the aero, hardly get any wind noise.

May be difficult if you use a handheld though unless you can get an extension wire?

See vid attached,

[Matt Seabrook]

Another vid of under the dash mic.

[dublinrob]

that's pretty decent sound quality for an open topped car. Is the mic you use just foam covered or is it one of those fancy hairy ones? I was thinking of mounting the mic in the passenger footwell but the air filter is down there and it would probably just pick up all the wooshing and sucking from the turbo, i think under the dash would be a better idea.

[Tigger]

Just a standard mic, no furry or foam bits on mine

[Matt Seabrook]

Just a bit of foam on mine.

[Man On The Clapham Omnibus]

Slight hijack: I haven't driven a car with a sequential gearbox, as one or two of these appear to be, so please bear with my basic questions: The shifts appear to be 'hot', or clutchless, is that so? And if the shifts are clutchless both up and down the box, how do you rev-match on downchanges approaching bends when there is no neutral to pass through to allow throttle 'blipping'. I fear, on trackdays, failing to match the revs correctly and causing the rear wheels to effectively 'over-brake' thereby throwing the car into an unnecessary spin.

 

[Terry Everall]

Most sequential changes for Busa or indeed geartronics paddle shift systems on car engined cars employ a cut to the ecu on upshifts and a throtle blipper for downshifts. They are lightning fast and clutchless

[Man On The Clapham Omnibus]

Ah thanks Terry! That explains everything! Suitable only for cars with fairly sophisticated engine management then.

[Terry Everall]

The busa system is not that complete or expensive and uses a trickshifter system and is easy to fit once you sort out the paddles

The CEC systems are a bit more expensive and you obviously need a quaife or elite sequential box

[Man On The Clapham Omnibus]

Should the bike engined car bug bite seriously I'll now know a bit more. A couple of those clips were a bit dangerously tempting...

[dublinrob]

i've no such electronic trickery on my car and i do use the clutch on up and down shifts but i haven't had any issues as yet with rears locking on down shifts. perhaps the reciprocating mass is far less on a bike engine and its not such prominents issue?

[8pots]

Another vid of under the dash mic.

What dash board is on this?  Does it have a module to get data onto the video?

Thanks

Mike

[Matt Seabrook]

Hi Mike the dash is a Dash 2 from Race-Technology. Its very configable and can display all sorts. The video can have all sorts of overlays, just about anything that can be logged on the data logger. You can even over lay data after the even so you can add and remove dials if you want.