the ZC will bolt up to your stock tranny, so you could run it that way. Honestly if i were you i would do a manual conversion, it is not all that hard, my buddy just did one on his 96ex, and keeps telling me that it was not as hard as he thought it was going to be. Plus you would have a cable set up for a clutch so you would not even have to deal with hydro lines. So go find a manual SI tranny, get a clutch, cables, get 4th gen shift linkage, shifter, console, and pedal assemsbly. An auto ZC would not be that dope, it would probably be pretty slow and to really take advantage of the ZC power.