4 bolt???

[alexplicit]

today i noticed that my protege lx 2001 has a 4 bolt wheel patern... (never seen that cause i had hubcap)... i always thought that this car was a 5 bolt, the original rims that we see on every protegeare 5 bolt right???

is there a way to convert from 4 to 5

because i have a deal on 17'' mazda 3 rims and these are 5 bolt...i know they fit i have seen it on other protege....

thanks

alex

 

[macklum]

The deal on the 5 bolt rims will end up costing you more ,you will need the parts from a ES protege or a P% to use the rims ,it would be cheaper to find a set of 4X100 rims with a 45mm offset and run 205/40/17 tires .

 

[alexplicit]

how much could a hole swap from 4 to5 bolt cost???

is ithard to do?

what do i ned toachieve this(parts..)

thanks

Aex

 

[zerocover]

The spindles, rotor, calipers, and probubly something Im forgeting from a 5 lug car. Not too bad if you can find a junked es/msp/mp3/pro5 you get a nice brake upgrade out of it too.

 

[alexplicit]

is there a 5lug drum brake or is it all 4lug

do i need something else??

 

[DiS]

is there a 5lug drum brake or is it all 4lug

do i need something else??

why would you want to swap from drum brakes to more drums?
Drum brakes suck really bad, harder to work with, dont hold as good as disk brakes.

The deal on the 5 bolt rims will end up costing you more ,you will need the parts from a ES protege or a P% to use the rims ,it would be cheaper to find a set of 4X100 rims with a 45mm offset and run 205/40/17 tires .

you dont have to nessesarily get 45mm offset. I had 17'' wheels with 40 offset. Everything was fine. 40 is the lowest offset that you can go on our cars i think.

The spindles, rotor, calipers, and probubly something Im forgeting from a 5 lug car. Not too bad if you can find a junked es/msp/mp3/pro5 you get a nice brake upgrade out of it too.

dont forget the master cylinder. You have to change the master cylinder also, because the one that is in a protege with drums, puts out MORE presure because of drum brakes, and if it is used for rear disk brakes it will crack the disk rotors because of excess of presure.

 

[alexplicit]

never said i wanted drum brake... just wanted to know if all 5lug have disk brake but thanks

 

[DiS]

never said i wanted drum brake... just wanted to know if all 5lug have disk brake but thanks

gotcha. No, all 5 lug proteges have disk brakes

 

[vindication]

drum brakes dont suck. they just dont cool down as fast. if your gonna change to a 5 lug, also going to need a master cylinder. you might as well upgrade to a 929 master cylinder. there's a how to somewhere on this site on the MC upgrade.

 

[DiS]

drum brakes dont suck. they just dont cool down as fast. if your gonna change to a 5 lug, also going to need a master cylinder. you might as well upgrade to a 929 master cylinder. there's a how to somewhere on this site on the MC upgrade.

lol thats why drum brakes suck. Because they dont cool down as fast as as disk ones and thats why they dont make the stopping better as its on disk brakes proteges. Also, I already mentioned master cylinder, hehe

 

[vindication]

yeah but you didn't mention to use the 929

 

[DiS]

yeah but you didn't mention to use the 929

true, hehe i wasnt getting into the details.

 

[Georonimo]

5 lug conversion:
http://www.msprotege.com/forum/showthread.php?t=119149

 

[vindication]

I'd so do the conversion but then I'd have 2 sets of wheels that are useless and then have to spend at least another $2500 for some OEM 5lug rims and some nice summer rims

 

[justanotheradikt]

so to sum it up....keep the 4 lug and find some rims....and if you want disc do a rear disc swap....its what im looking at, other wise i have 3 sets of rims and tires that are no good

 

[vindication]

if you want disk, get the 2000 ES rear brakes. they are 4-lug disk. no need for bb kit for the rear really. and for bb kit for the front, corksport has that for the 4-lug. I will never go to 5-lug unless I win the lotto and have money to throw at thr Protege, but I will eventually get bigger brakes for front and get the '00 ES rear disks

 

[justanotheradikt]

i wasnt going to go BB....i thought someone looked into the 2000 es idea and it turned out not what they expected

 

[vindication]

dunno about that. that is news to me. the protege faq page by edwin has what is needed to do the swap I beleive.

 

[justanotheradikt]

link?

 

[vindication]

http://web2.airmail.net/theman/protegefaq/