" You buy this kit, pay another 1-2k until it runs, and then nobody cares. Great investment. "
If you are expecting to get paid for your work and achieve acclaim, you are likely in the wrong hobby. It's all for "personal enrichment". If you enjoy the process, that's all there is. Derottone with his highly polished 535, Your fleet of retuned EFI hardware, when our "treasures" go to the used bike shop or ebay after we shuffle off, it's all just parts, a project or a cheap ride to the next guy.
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”