The Chevrolet LS V8 might be one of the most famous engines of all time. Variants of the engine powered virtually every GM muscle car and truck for the last couple of decades. Notably, it's the ...

American muscle and Japanese import fans have historically butted heads, but at Palisade, Colorado-based tuner Flyin’ Miata, there’s something for both types of car enthusiasts to enjoy. Flyin’ Miata ...

Isaac Atienza is a Filipino motoring journalist who joined TopSpeed.com in 2021. He also owns a Filpino motoring website called Go Flat Out PH and is also a contributor to a local newspaper called The ...

A few years ago when the ND was relatively new, the peeps at Flyin’ Miata did the unthinkable by shoehorning a small-block V8 in the engine bay of the Japanese roadster. Turn-key cars are no longer ...

To quickly into the spirit of things, we have an LS3-swapped Mazda MX-5 Miata (ND) that can destroy a brand-new Mustang GT over the quarter mile, but it's still no match for a Porsche 911 Targa 4S. In ...

Flyin’ Miata has posted a video to its Facebook page that shows footage of the MX-5 ND Miata LS3 swap in action, and holy crap does it look like fun. This little rocket flies past the camera from a ...

The idea of stuffing a big engine into a small car is one of the most quintessential rules of having fun behind a steering wheel. Putting a V8 engine under the bonnet of a Mazda MX-5 is hardly an ...

A performance shop in the United States is shoehorning engines making 525 horsepower into a tiny roadster platform weighing just a tick over 2,300 lbs. No, we’re not talking about a Shelby Cobra 427 ...

You knew this was coming... The mad minds at Flyin' Miata must've been wringing their hands and drooling ever since the fourth-generation Mazda MX-5 Miata, the ND, came into production. After all, ...

Last night, the folks at Flyin' Miata finished putting together the world's first ND Miata V8 swap. With a 525-horsepower 6.3-liter V8 under the hood, it promises to be an absolute beast—even though ...

Perhaps the lone upside of the new Fiat 124 Spider feeling about as Italian as an Edamame Soybean Kit-Kat is that it will inevitably benefit from the ridiculously extensive Mazda MX-5 aftermarket.

It was only a matter of time before the mad scientists at Flyin' Miata put together a V-8 conversion for the fourth-generation ND-chassis Mazda Miata. That time has come, and the muscle-infused ...