Fox Body Mustang 5 Lug Conversions
Your Fox Body comes stock with a 4-lug wheel pattern, and converting to a 5-lug wheel pattern offers excellent benefits. A five-lug conversion helps to give you a greater selection of wheels, better braking options, and more robust wheel mounting, which can be beneficial if you are drag racing or track racing. Late Model Restoration offers complete Mustang 4 to 5-lug conversion swaps, 5-lug drum brake kits, disc brake conversion kits, and hardware. With quality in mind, we only offer our most trusted brands on your Mustang.
We offer 28 and 31 spline axles for your 5-lug conversion. A standard drum brake 5-lug conversion comes with new front rotors, rear axles, brake drums, wheel bearings, wheel studs, grease seals, friction modifier, and gear oil. If you want to convert only your front or rear wheels to 5-lugs, we offer Mustang 4 to 5-lug conversion kits to complete your installation. Are you not wanting to use brake drums? We offer kits that come with disk brakes that help to increase your performance even more with the 5-lug conversion. Adding an SN-95 spindle 5-lug conversion helps to improve your braking significantly. Each kit has everything you need to complete this installation and give your Fox some SN-95 Mustang performance.
Fox Body Spindle 5-Lug Conversions
You can do a Fox Body Mustang 5-lug swap and still retain your factory spindles and rear drums. This is a very common five-lug conversion option requiring less modification and parts. This makes this conversion much easier to install and much more economical.
If you want to keep your OE factory spindles on your Fox Body, our 5.0 Resto 5-lug conversion kits have you covered. They will include front 5-lug brakes rotors that will work with 1987-93 Mustang V8 calipers and spindles. These kits will also include your choice of 28 splines or 31 splines 5-lug axles. To finish the installation, 5.0 Resto includes five lug rear drums, fluids, and all needed hardware.
Be sure to check out our complete installation video and tech guide here if you want more details about this kit and installation: Fox Body Mustang 5-Lug Conversion Installation Guide (79-93)
What Wheels Work With The Fox Spindle 5-Lug Swaps?
This 5-lug swap does limit your wheel selections becuase it retains the larger Fox Body front bearing and grease cap design. These will simply not clear all SN95/New Edge style wheels. We give the complete list of wheels the 5.0 Resto kits fit on the product pages. Be sure to check all fitment and installation notes before purchasing. You can also read our Fox Body 5-Lug Conversion Guide for more details.
Fox Body SN95 Spindle 5-Lug Conversions
This 5-lug conversion is considered by many to be the ultimate 5-lug conversion for your Fox Body Mustang. It not only converts your Mustang to 5-lug but also ditches the rear drum brakes in favor of a rear disc brake conversion. These swaps use the SN95 Mustang spindles as the foundation for the front conversion. This allows you to use the 1994-04 Mustang GT/V6 or the larger 1994-04 Cobra 2-piston calipers. With larger rotors and better calipers found in SN95 Mustangs, you can drastically improve your braking performance and stopping power with Ford OE-style parts.
SVE and 5.0 Resto offer all the needed brake hoses, brake lines, caliper brackets, hardware, and disc brake conversion kits to complete your Fox Body rear disc brake conversion. This Fox Body 5-lug disc brake conversion requires much more modification and parts than the Fox Spindle swap listed above. That makes this conversion more technical and costly; however, the brake performance and the added wheel fitment can drastically outweigh the added cost.
What Wheels Work With The SN95 5-Lug Swaps?
The short answer is a lot more wheels will work with this conversion compared to the Fox Spindle swap. The SN95 spindle and rotors do not have the larger wheel bearing, and grease caps featured on the Fox Body spindles and rotors. This allows most of the 1994-04 Mustang wheels to fit on your Fox Body Mustang. You will need to check clearances for brake calipers and inner fender wheel well area, but you have many more wheel options.
