VW 1.8T FWD to RWD trans question

Anyone know of a transmission or adapter/trans combo that'll allow me to put a VW GTI 1.8T into a RWD platform (Miata/924/whatever)?

I've got a GTI that's suffering from too many Canadian winters, so it's worth more in parts than as a whole. I'm just wondering if it's worth keeping the engine to build something (anything).

Lakewood/Quicktime have a bellhousing to a T-5 or RwdMotorsports has a bellhousing to a Ford Type-9 from a Merkur.

There's also the super rare AMC cars that had a VW/Audi 4 cylinder in rear wheel drive along with a DJ Postal jeep that was an automatic.

http://www.rwdmotorsport.com/vw-audi-1-8-litre-to-ford-type-9-bellhousing.html

http://www.jegs.com/i/Quick-Time-Bellhousing/698/RM-4082/10002/-1

For the 924, you get to cut the bellhousing off a FWD transaxle and weld on an adapter plate for the torque tube.

Why? The 924 uses the Audi I5 bellhousing pattern as the engine in it was the fore bearer of the Audi I5 (and Audi I6, but I digress) which is not the VW bellhousing pattern used in all of the VW's of the time and to the present.

So an Audi I5 swap is much easier to pull off, except for finding a decent I5 these days.

http://www.944-20v.nl

In reply to RossD:

The AMC used the 924's engine and that bellhousing won't work for the 1.8T

That said, there are adapter plates for Chevy SBC bellhousings to the 924/944 torque tube, so perhaps that could be combined with one of the above adapter bellhousings to kludge up a solution?

There's also the Samurai trans route. People have been bolting VW diesels into Samurais for ages now with the help of Acme or Rocky Road. Looks like about $425 gets you an adapter plate and custom flywheel/pressure plate. I seem to remember Samurai trans being just about cheap to free in most parts of the world.

There is also kit to put vw diesel in jeeps. So any transmission a jeep engine bolts too will works