YFZ450 spindles, brake assy, hubs, etc.

[flanders]

Hey guys, I'm a senior in mechanical engineering at Saint Martin's University and somehow I ended up talking my senior design professor into letting us enter SAE minibaja for our senior design project. For our project we are designing/builiding basically a single seater sandrail. The frame is almost complete now and we have most of our key parts, but we would like to use YFZ450 spindles, hubs, brakes, and possibly front shocks for our build. I havent had any luck finding these so far, so if anyone has any of these parts please pm me and I will get back to you asap. If anyone is looking for a trade, I would be willing to donate some of my parts for our project.

[BenBB]

Sounds cool. I found a set at yfzcentral.com, posting in the "wanted" forum. There was a couple others that offered them (I bought the a-arms with spindles and calipers as a set), you might ask there. Good luck.

[austin]

Im with BenBB on this one, yfzcentral.com all the way, I got a whole 450 stock front end off there for cheap to put on my banshee. That setup would probly work good on your mini-baja, Im on the University of Nebraska's mini baja team, we fabricate our a-arms cause quad arms are too short.

[flanders]

thanks for the suggestion, ill definitely look into it. As far as fabin stuff up, we're building our a-arms, swing arms, axle, and a few other things besides the chassis, but i was hoping to use the brakes and spindles off of a 450. how far along is your project? if you guys would like to take a look at ours, our website is http://homepages.stmartin.edu/orgs/SDME06B/

 

Take it easy guys

[1stwarrior95]

Just a FYI, 660 Raptor spindles are the same a YFZ's. That'd give ya another search option anyway. You'll want the YFZ calipers for sure though.

I'm in the process of buyin a pair of Honda 450r calipers, just to see if they can be used on Yamahas. If they can the Honda calipers are about 1/3 the price of the yamaha calipers.