Personally, I think the K-series is a great engine *if* you can find one that's been well maintained. It's poor maintenance that general leads to the dreaded HGF. Also, Rover made modification of the life of the engine to improve the resistance to HGF.
Caterham used to do a bellhousing to mate it to a type-9, not sure whether they still do - occasionally they come up on eBay but at reasonable money (they were about £250 new). There's a company called Frontline who also do a bellhousing which is primarily targetted to people who want to do K-series conversions for MG Midgets - I guess there's no reason why you couldn't use that in Roadster. Again though, quite big cash.
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