Aaron, these kids will have to live and learn. I guess they dont know that this stuff has been done by us and many for years, I would say all the way back to 2003 for us both! If I had insight from people who had already did it I would have saved thousands on the numerous bikes I have built throughout the years. There are so many advantages of a good combo besides peak HP that if you were to try a correctly set up bike, you would be very suprised about the all around performance and feel it will have.
WIth the stuff you bought, I would have just bought a big bore package from Trinity and called it a day, atleast you would have a Raptor putting out 65+ HP with a few bolt ons!