It's a mercifully rainy day here too. Makes it easier to be bikeless.
I had looked into shipping the entire bike to RCC. I got a $1200 quote...one way!
The bike was fully dialed in when torn down, so I feel good about that portion of the project. Every part the dealership put in was one I saw, except the bearings. I feel they meant well, and did their best, but something did go very wrong for sure. Knecums skills are the best there are, so I fell fantastic about having his name on the build.
Also, another guy on a different board was/is bashing the heck out of APE for allegedly not getting rod tolerances correct. In tearing down my fresh build we'll be able to see how APE did on the rod bearings (they installed the rods). I truly like the APE guys, so my hope is I can help support their good name by proving mine were/are spot on.
I'm curius to see what Knecum recommends for needed parts for a proper build. I did not use big head studs or oversized intake valves. I wanted a 500 hp build, nothing more. In any event, I'm actually happy my motor has a spot in Knecum's calendar. 
One of the guys here looked into having Richard do his bike, he was going to take his vacation time truck it up there and wait, I think never got coordinated on the parts/waiting deal, he did eventually took it to a guy in NC, Lees Performance I think it was, got to the track went down on his second pass, did not get hurt, bike got tore up, sold everything within a month, don't remember what lee charged him, did not seem out of line at the time??, and I'm sorry if I come off sounding like I'm bashing a shop and I doubt that anything APE did caused this, as you said it made no noise it was still running, all the pistons are going up and down, I wish you were able to see the cly with the scope and see what the top of the piston and cly wall looked like, if the top of the piston was all still there, and the cly wall was not torched, and the piston was going up and down that really only leaves the valve train, and the dealer said when they put in air it would not hold, could defiantly be a screwed valve, as you see from Johns (Sportbikeriders) post and has been into 50 times the Busa motors than I have, also thinks its in the valve/head area, his, Rodneys, and I'm sure other cust bikes they work on at that shop run well into the 6s and live, so he knows what he's talking about, maybe the guys at Everett did do a conscientious job, but there blasé attitude helping you out after taking your 5K sucks, now if they really did the whole job as you say used all the parts you listed and your bill was 5K that's not out of line cost wise, whats out of line is its supposed to stay together for more than 1/2 a pass, as you said if you had some good passes out of it it might be a different story, my friend with the shop and the dyno that retired, years ago I burnt some pistons, was super busy at work, to have time to do much so I had him tear the bike apart and fix it, new Wossners/ valve job/springs, he got the motor together on a Friday afternoon he said if I came over sat we could stuff it back make a couple pulls and I could take it home I said great, anyways we got it together it sounded fine it was late so we didn't monkey around on the dyno, by the time I got home maybe 5 miles it was making a funny noise and smoking out the exhaust, I pulled the plugs 3 looked fine one looked like shit, leakdown ck (air in the cyl) found #4 with about 80% leakage, into the crankcase, I'm getting super pissed by now, did not sleep a lot that night, got up sun got the motor out, tore down, my bud had left a pin lock out of #4 and the pin came out enough to start rubbing on the wall, about rubbed through it, one good hit on that ride home and the motor would have been shrapnel, after I settled down I called told him what happened, took him the screwed parts, in a week he had me a new piston, a good cly, which I got put the bike back together myself, took it down we run 7 or 8 pulls and I have used the shop machines, and dyno many times since, but he never put another wrench on my bike, and since then if I did not have time to do it myself it waited till I did, so I hope you understand my attitude about doing my own stuff, he screwed up, he new it, he made it right, the Everett guys could have done more for you than lip service, he would done the whole job, but that was the very last time anybody worked on any of my stuff, as I have said several times since if I have something I can't fix, I won't have it,
