Well, unless you can custom fab things yourself, it would cost you more to make this tranny work than to just buy the right tranny and clutch kit... Im pretty sure the mount locations are different, and then youd have to figure out a way to make the clutch pedal engage the clutch... And on top of that, the CX tranny is the bottom of the barrel of the 5th gens, and is the same unit as the VX (has VTEC-E for economy), so its geared more for economy than performance...