The older this car gets, the easier this will get, and the more you will see it. Lot's of old cars running around out there with crazy engine swaps.
If they can drop a Cossie engine in a Focus and make it RWD, I don't see how we would be perpetually limited. Yeah, it takes money, and maybe some cutting, but that's the kind of thing these old gearheads do before breakfast.
Function before fashion.
'96 Contour SE
"Toss the Contour into a corner, and it's as easy to catch as a softball thrown by a preschooler." -Edmunds, 1998