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Mini Cooper Ram-Air Duct System, Christopher Dirkes, Kyle Vanden Berg
Mini Cooper Ram-Air Duct System, Christopher Dirkes, Kyle Vanden Berg
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Due to extensive track use, Mini Cooper GP’s are notorious for having brake overheating problems. In the conceptual design stages of the car, BMW engineers intended to install brake ducts to prevent overheating, but due to time constraints, the cars were shipped without the ducts they were intended to have. The goal of this project was to design and manufacture a brake duct kit for the Mini Cooper GP. After a conceptual design of the system, make-buy decisions were made for each component. The components to be made were designed using computer-aided drafting, engineering, and manufacturing software. The components manufactured …