you can remove the butterflies from the stock intake manifold or trick them to stay open all the time. Yes the Euro R IM is the best one honda made for the H22 but you have to a lot of modifications for it work. About the ECUs. Do you know how much a type-s ecu cost? close to 500 bux. He can easily get a p28 chipped ecu. Or get a P72 chipped with a base map. Then get an hour dyno tuning done with crome etc.. it works out a lot cheaper than buying an OBDII euro r ecu or type-s ecu. He gets something that will take to modes a lot easier. Because the type-s and euro-r ecu's are obdII they is a good chance that the won't even start after about three starts. It happen to a friend of mine when he had to do emission. Stick with is stock IM and have the butterflies stay open. Also since he is getting cams whether they'd be type-s or crower he would still need to get a tune. VAFC is out of the question since thats the worse tuning mechanism on the market to date.

Other than that, I agree with everything else you said AllMotoronly.

Bottum line. If you get cams stay away from obdII. Why? Because obdII ecu's are learning ecu's.