Small update;
Found a RAVE valve on ebay for like $35 shipped, so thats on the way. Got an OEM intake from RIDE-RED-250R (Thanks again man) that I'm sizing up. I've been pretty tied up the past 2 weeks and have'nt gotten to do much more on this. I was going to initially hold off on buying the crank/rod/piston stuff but I'm reconsidering that and thinking about going ahead and getting that stuff to see how things are going to need to be setup before I do a whole lot more work on it as far as coolant lines, intake, exhaust, etc. It all looks do-able, just going to take some thought and planning on it. The exhaust flange is going to need to have a little angle on it from the looks of things to make it under the wish-bone area.
I'm a little bit concerned that my machining may not have left me with a surface exactly parallel to the crankshaft (Although I feel like I did a pretty good job of it) I'd hate to do everything else and find out that I had goobered up there on the most important part. I had an idea to basically assemble the thing without a cylinder head, and hook it up to a small electric motor and see how it wore (if any) for a little bit before I went much further on it, which might be a good idea considering all the welding/potential warping and such that has been done to this thing.
So I guess right now, that is the direction I'm leaning, I will go ahead and get an 82mm FL350 piston ordered, possibly use a stock crank to try things out before I get the +4mm and stuff.
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ed connecting rods out from truck axles, casted his own pistons, filed his own camshafts, and he broke several records at the Bonneville salt flats. There isn't much else cooler to me than stuff like that. If your interested in stuff like that, you should read up on him sometime. There is a movie they did a few years ago with Anthony Hopkins playing him that has the documentary with the real Burt Munro on it also. The documentary is awesome, the movie is pretty good too.