what are yall doing a for a 5 Lug Disc brake setup on the REAR of a Fox????
5 Lug Disc
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98 Cobra rear end.
wheels, not exactly what style yet but i was thinking of something like a set of 18" prolly like Y2Ks... could u just bolt up say a 94 rearend and slap some Y2Ks on it and be good to roll???
'94-98 stuff here too.
No, the Y2K's are 9.5" wide. Your gonna need some near stock GT/LX length axles and some fender lip/well work. I've put these on my Fox before (if you search for threads started by JimJr you can find it).illness said:
As a general rule-of-thumb, if you and use the 94+ axles you can run an 8" rim and the stock GT/LX axles if you want to use a +9" rim.
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thank u much
who needs 5-lugs 
Very true. Remember all, Baer makes a 4-lug 13" front brake kit that works great on a 93 Cobra, as LEE93COBRA knows.LEE93COBRA said:who needs 5-lugs
besides being able to use different wheels what are the advantages of a 5 lug conversion??
illness said:
Only advantage is 5 bolts are stronger than 4 bolts. If your launching a 900 horsepower car at 7000rpm on slicks it might come into play. But basically just lets you use diff. wheels thats it.
racerbox77 said:
+1,... kinda
Is there any company out there that makes disc brakes for the rear 4 lug? or how about this.. in order to keep the stock Fox axle housing u use ranger axles for the 5 lug.. but what hardware do u use to bolt on the discs? and wich discs do u use??
You can use these.
www.northracecars.com
They make backing plates you can use to keep the stock GT/LX track width. You can either use the SN95 stuff (GT or Cobra) or use the 93 Cobra/Turbo coupe setup and re drill the rotors to 5 lug. One key note, if you use the SN95 stuff you have to buy spacers to go on the hub so the rotors will center on the hub. The hub size for the SN95 cars is larger than the 79-93's and 5 lug ranger axles.
www.northracecars.com
They make backing plates you can use to keep the stock GT/LX track width. You can either use the SN95 stuff (GT or Cobra) or use the 93 Cobra/Turbo coupe setup and re drill the rotors to 5 lug. One key note, if you use the SN95 stuff you have to buy spacers to go on the hub so the rotors will center on the hub. The hub size for the SN95 cars is larger than the 79-93's and 5 lug ranger axles.
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so if I go with the stock fox track width, what is the widest size wheels I can fit??? I found a set of 17x9s I like..
9's will fit perfectly with the stock width. I've run 10.5's with the wider width, but I think you'd have clearence issues if they were tucked in much more.illness said:
Just get some 5 lug fox axles and the calipers, backing plate, lines etc from a 94+ mustang. You need to cut a chunk out of the stock backing plates and switch them around. So left rear will become right rear etc. On the 94+ the backing plates bolt up on the out side of the axles tube, for the fox rear end you now need to bolt them up on the in side of the axles tube. Thats why you needed to cut a chunk out of it. Everything should bolt back up normal. Oh yeah the 94+ hard brake line has a different size fitting. There are alot of people who did this mod. Do a search on stangnet and you should find them.
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