There's a dood at turboford.org with a 1.9 GT-HO 5 speed bolted up to a 2.3t, I'm not sure how much work he needed to do, but it said it pretty much bolted right on.
There's also a guy with a 2.3t in a Tempo with the original tempo tranny. I guess the Tempo and 1st gen Escort have a bunch in common to.
A Toruas 3.0 V6 in a first gen has been done to.