88 mercury tracer/ 88 ford escort gt

I have an 88 merc tracer 1.6 5 spd trans. I use it for racing on a 1/3 mile paved oval track in upper michigan. the problem is i want to take the 1.6 out and drop in a 1.9 h.o. out of an escort gt. i need to know if the transmission bolt patterns to the block are the same. i need more power to the ground and the 82 hp out of the 1.6 is not enough. any help would be great.

YA DER EH, maybe its not the car but the driver EH

I belive an 88 Mercury Tracer is just a rebadged Mazda 323. So a Ford Escort motor would'nt swap, but you could use a Mazda GTX motor, more power anyways.

If it's using the 1.6 CVH a 1.9 HO might bolt up. Ford did use a 1.6 in it's old Escorts (85 and prior). But I think that a Tracer is when Ford when to the Mazda protege'/323 design. Before that they had Lynx's.