mazdaspeed transmission to the 1.6

[Twilcox19]

planning on swapping a mazdaspeed transmission into my 2001 protege DX 1.6L.

preferring the mazdaspeed transmission because it already has the LSD installed but i am aware of needing a customer bell housing?

is there an easier route to go? search is proving useless. if anyone can put some info i would greatly appreciate it. this car is also an automatic. paid 400 dollars for it and its a great peice so far, working on rebuilding the engine and plan to run a decent amount of boost, but i need a tranny to take the abuse. i hear the auto to manual swap is a beast but ill work out the ECU and wiring later (info on that also appreciated), main concern is finding a manual transmission thats either A) direct fit i can add LSD to or B) a conversion for the mazdaspeed transmission.

also ive read the internals on the regular protege's transmission and msp's transmission are exactly the same except the LSD. true?

 

[Prodigy]

The mazdaspeed(G15MR) transmission won't mate up to the 1.6L engine.
Your best best would be to either convert to 1.8L/2.0L to use the mazdaspeed transmission or convert the 1.6L to manual and rebuild the 1.6L manual transmission with a custom clutch-type LSD.
OPM motorsports can make the clutch-type LSD for about $1000

I've done a 1.8L manual --> 1.6L auto swap... every single wire on the chassis will have to be swapped.