Short/longblock, 2g FWD transmission.

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Mods chime in if I am completely off base here:

DSMINMN.....Judging from this thread alone it appears that you are not that far along with collecting parts for your project.

I would suggest looking for a whole running car, and swapping it into the colt, removes a lot of "?"s and compatibility issues that you *ahem* WILL run into.

I've seen beatup-rusty DSM's go for <$1000

but I've only been doing this since 2002, what do i know.