Flyin' Miata Habu available immediately

For full details, please see the listing on the Flyin' Miata website.
Flyin' Miata Habu for sale

Have you seen the Habu test in the latest issue of Classic Motorsports? Here's your chance to pick up one of these spectacular cars without the wait.

This car, based on one of the 394 Lava Orange Mazdaspeed Miatas, was built this summer. It was commissioned by a fellow named Terry who was battling cancer. He was only able to enjoy the car for a few months before he was no longer able to drive it, and has now passed away.We know he enjoyed the build process and his brief period with the car. As a favor to his family, we're helping the car find a new home.

Build diary

It has covered less than 1500 miles since the conversion, including our shakedown miles. Since every moving part of the car is addressed in the conversion, it's a brand new car. There's even a factory warranty on the 430 hp LS3 engine.

For full details, please see the listing on the Flyin' Miata website.
Flyin' Miata Habu for sale

2005 Mazdaspeed Miata GT with 83,500 miles on the chassis

Powerplant
LS3 E-Rod crate engine with remaining 20-month warranty
Blueprinted Tremec T56 six-speed transmission
V8Roadsters tubular front subframe
Cadillac CTS-V differential with 3.73 gears and Positraction
High-strength Stage 2 halfshafts
Flyin' Miata fuel upgrades
Flyin' Miata crossflow V8 radiator
Flyin' Miata stage 2 airflow kit
LS7 cold air intake
Flyin' Miata stainless steel dual exhaust system
Twin metallic core catalytic converters

Chassis
Seam-welded chassis
Frame rail reinforcements and additional crossmember
FM AFCO suspension with 550 lb front and 375 lb rear spring rates
Upgraded rear hubs with ARP studs
Blueprinted front hubs with ARP studs
Flyin' Miata sway bars
Stock control arms with new high performance rubber bushings
Flyin' Miata Stage 1 four wheel big brake kit
Frog Arm chassis braces
Enkei 15x8 wheels with 225/45-15 Toyo R1R tires (approximately 1000 miles on the tires)
Anti-lock brakes

Body and interior
Hard Dog Sport "Fat Boy" roll bar
Factory black leather seats
Factory cloth soft top with heated rear window
Lava Orange paint, all original other than the engine bay - it was repainted to a higher quality than stock as part of the conversion
Lava Orange Mazdaspeed rear view mirror
Aerocatch hood pins
Flyin' Miata hood louver panels
Air conditioning
Suzuki Cappuccino washer bottle

Asking price: $46,995. That's less than the price of the conversion, and it is available now without a wait. You would essentially get the car for free - a Lava Orange Mazdaspeed of this quality would be around $12,000 alone.

We have the car at the Flyin' Miata shop and would be happy to arrange any extra work you may wish to have done before delivery. There are more pictures on the Flyin' Miata website.
Flyin' Miata Habu for sale

Gorgeous car

Dangit...I keep misplacing those darn winning lotto tickets...

what an incredibly fun car that would be...someone will be very lucky! Alas, that costs more than the acreage I bought a few years ago.

I'll get this out of the way-

Man, If I was only closer...Boy if it was only closer...If I only had the money..If I hadn't just bought a Dorkmeister S7 yesterday I'd be all over this...Why didn't he just buy a Corvette?...You might have better luck selling it on the GRM site...If it were pink it would be mine right now...If it just had an automatic...SWMBO said no, or I...Will you trade for a Dorkmeister S7 with rusty seats and a torn rear end?....

Thanks for getting that over with, bravenrace

The car will be listed in the next issue of GRM, so consider this a sneak preview for the forum denizens!

Uh, nice car, BTW...

CGLockRacer wrote: Dangit...I keep misplacing those darn winning lotto tickets...

Same here...

I've been wondering... how do folks who live in OBD II inspection areas get around that with these cars?

It returns OBD-II codes, so quite easily. Totally legal.

All the V8 conversions we build do so, but the standard ones don't return a full set of codes. This one has an E-Rod, which means it monitors the cats as well as runs the charcoal canister and thus returns a more complete set. It's quite easy to get through an emissions test, whether it's a plug-in OBD-II check or a tailpipe sniffer.

$47k seems pretty reasonable for The Perfect Miata.

GLWS!

In reply to Keith Tanner:

I understand that, but I'm just wondering how it works when the inspection guy plugs the car into the computer and enters "2005 Mazda Miata"... will the LS3 ECU spit out the same info as a Miata?

As far as I know, OBD-II codes aren't tied to the vehicle. They're an industry standard.

My rough understanding is that the car will pop out a series of codes that basically say "check XXX complete, no problems". If the car doesn't have certain capabilities - such as only one bank of cylinders instead of two - the return is "N/A". The E-Rod ECU will return a fairly complete list of codes, including twice as many O2 sensors as would reasonably be found in a Miata

It will fairly obviously not be the original engine. But the important thing is that the required codes will come back as checked and passed.

If you want to know exactly how your state DMV handles engine swaps, you'll have to contact them directly. To the best of my knowledge and experience, this car is legal in all states except for California.