Welcome to the forum. I picked my kit up last month, been too busy donor stripping to get started yet though. Are you getting a second hand type-r engine? been told there 6.5k new from Honda...
Terry told me there are a few type r builders. I tried but failed to buy one on ebay last week as I'm rather tempted to drop my VVC k-series in favour of the Honda screamer. There hard to find though as all the elise owners seem to be snapping them up for conversions...