Flyin’ Miata Quietly Stopped Doing ND Miata V8 Swaps Years In the past

Yesterday, Street & Monitor printed some disappointing information: Flyin’ Miata is formally out of the V8-swapped ND Miata sport. Until yow will discover a used one, you’ll should look to different firms comparable to V8 Roadsters to fulfill your eight-cylinder Miata wants. However technically, this isn’t new information.

First, although, it’s true that Flyin’ Miata will now not stuff a GM V8 into your favourite Japanese roadster. The corporate’s assist web page features a assertion saying precisely that:

Whereas Flyin’ Miata has an in depth historical past of constructing LSx-converted Miatas from 2008-2018 and churning out a number of the most enjoyable Miatas to grace streets, autocrosses, tracks, and hill climbs everywhere in the world, we’ve discontinued our V8 conversion service and are now not providing turn-key builds or conversion elements for V8 builds. With emissions rules changing into more and more stringent and authorities entities seemingly desirous to slap large fines on companies that promote “emissions defeat units,” we’ve made the tough resolution to put our V8 program to relaxation.

However whereas the R&T article claimed this was posted earlier this month, once we talked with Keith Tanner, the proprietor of Flyin’ Miata, he instructed us his store really stopped constructing V8 vehicles “three to 4 years in the past. It’s simply that nobody observed till [yesterday],” he mentioned.

Flyin’ Miata additionally didn’t cease the swaps due to a selected engineering drawback or new legislation. It was simply that the swaps “technically bypass emissions controls” and already took up a ton of assets. Contemplating Flyin’ Miata does considerably extra four-cylinder enterprise, it sounds prefer it merely wasn’t definitely worth the effort to determine find out how to proceed making their V8s authorized. And with extra consideration being paid to emissions, it wasn’t definitely worth the danger to maintain promoting them as-is and hope nobody observed.

By the way, yesterday was Flyin’ Miata’s thirty ninth anniversary, and as Tanner put it, “We wish to keep in enterprise for an additional 39 [years].” We hope that occurs, too, as a result of even with no V8, Flyin’ Miata’s modified four-cylinder vehicles are nonetheless fairly candy.