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Um, whoops. Forgot the basics. It's an '89 Colt 100 DL from Canada. The square type body, not the civic-like body. (C10 not C50?)
Sorry, you're pretty limited.. Its a C10 style. The hatchback is actually a C12.
If you have access to a whole car from firewall to front, you can swap it from that with no problem.
Sticking to naturally aspirated engines might be the cheapest way to go. You can use a 4g15 out of a later model CSM, the only difference is having the ECU, an actual harness to it and EFI if I'm not mistaken. Its generically identical otherwise, minus the distributor location. I'm sure you can splice it and make it work.
There's also many Mitsubishi Precis/Hyundai Excel and Elantra that you can borrow the engines/trannys from.
I could suggest a 1.8 Liter 4g37 out of a base model DSM or a Galant. The transmission for the 1.8 is cable still, and a 5-speed. I forget the PN on it but its similar to the Colt's 5-speed. Supposedly from what I've read on here it lines right up. Pretty sure they're in other models such as Cordias and Tredias [if you can even find those anymore].
Actually here's a link on wikipedia to a list of the cars with the G15b and other Orion engines:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_Orion_engine
and for the Saturn/4g series:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi ... ngine#4G37
EDIT: annnnd the Sirius engine family of 4g's:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_4G6_engine#4G63