iPad mount to roll cage? (Page 1 of 2)

Why would you do that?  I've never seen it, honestly it would be hard to see with the vibration you'd likely get.

If you're gonna use it for visible laptimes/telemetry remember the red mist it can cause.

It's been done, though I can't tell you exactly how it's mounted on there:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTU5zXgxz1A

Edit: That's "iPad," not an "iPod." I misread the subject. Still, the principle is probably more or less the same, just embiggenated.

However, I caution that Jay and TEO will be very dubious of it. They tend to frown on (or yell at you about) things that could become projectiles in a rollover. So if you mount it, make sure it's not going anywhere and the fasteners by which it's fastened can't in any way unfasten.

Will an iPad (or iPhone, or other iCrack) touchscreen work if you are wearing your racing mittens?

This should work...

Just two bolts right through the cage!

With enough zip ties, you can hold the world.

Well, without it the kids will never shut up.

maybe mount it for GPS so you don't get lost on the track.

Love Harry's Lap Timer and fortunately I have the 64gb phone... still not quite sure data acquisition is necessary for lemons but the video is nice!!  The most worthwhile stuff such as lap time and standing I get all from Race Monitor.

Just FYI suction cup type mounts are not allowed (at least not when we went through tech) without some sort of secondary thing holding it in.  We ended up Zip Tying the mount to our rollcage (this was last year with a go-pro)

If I had to guess, the OP wants to run something with OBD2 monitoring. That's what I would do if I was a) bored, b) blew $500 on an ipad, and c) had a car new enough to have OBD2.

Or, the OP has Tesla envy. That car looks like someone just glued an oversized ipad to the dash.

Ram-Mounts makes a rail mount w/ a locking mechanism. If it's sturdy enough to prevent someone from stealing the ipad w/o breaking it, it's likely sturdy enough to  hold your pad.

On my car, when I used it as the occasional commuter car, I mounted an Iphone cradle to the remnants of my dash but disassembling it, removing the flexible shaft/suction cup, and bolting it straight to the remnants of my dash. The holder also had some elastic straps as a backup.
Worked just fine; one of my codrivers forgot his iphone charger at the last race so he used the tbird's spare cigarette power port to charge up his phone during his race session.

-g

I did Gingerman with my iPhone and a RAM mount. I was very impressed. ROCK SOLID video with nary a judder. Mount is really strong and clamped down tight. I bet the pad mount is the same.

We've been running Two ipads in the car for a while now using Ram mounts.  One faces forward and streams video to the world - also nice to watch the in-car camera from the pits on a laptop or something. 

The second is collecting data; top speeds in the straights, corner entry and exit speeds, and lap times.  Additionally it displays the split times and lap times and +/- from last, best or golden depending on how we have it set up.