My yella gt's lookin' a bit sad -- has anyone put engine and trans in a later body ?? any assis wud be good

you mean a mk2/mkb, probably can be done, but why bother when you could go all out on what you have and still spend a few £k less.

People have been swapping GT engines into lower models and vice versa for quite a while now, if you want a v reg GT3 shape body (yours will be GT2) that could be done, just swap engines over and sell your 98 onto (me).