I installed the camshaft with the lobes pointed down into the "bath tub" and made sure to clock the chain so that the camshaft alignment grooves are lined up with the head cover plug hole the right way. I rewired the bike so that the clutch safety switch is deleted and the decomp system is now deleted as well. Now when I tried starting the bike so as to prime the top end, it just turned over real slow, whirrup whirrp, whirrup whirrp, and overheated the battery cables I had hooked up, with a puff of smoke. Is it something I did wrong with the cam chain/camshaft timing or is it a faulty rewire? I just deleted the decomp controller, and deleted the two wires that go to the clutch lever switch, then took the yellow wire with green tracer that comes from the starter switch and connected it to the yellow wire with black tracer on the starter solenoid. I guess I blew it eh?

You're looking at a few variables and none are easily removed.
The description of How it's spinning over is very helpful.
A Slightly less than Optimally Charged battery can be enough to keep it from firing.
Be sure that battery is at at least 12.5volts.
Watching the voltage as it's spinning is helpful. I don't remember what the ignition requires to fire the plug While it's working against compression.
Leave the plug in the head. Pull the wire, poke a plug un, ground it, see if it's firing.
I'm hoping you didn't allow crap to fall into the cylinder if you pulled the plug. Need to blow dirt out before you pull it.

If you pull the tank again you don't have to put it back on to start it as long as the carb is full.

Be in neutral, don't wanna load the starter motor more than necessary.
Knowing the voltage At the starter motor would be good.
Once you get past the first compression stroke the motor is spinning the same as a stock unit with the decompression hooked up.

Don't run the starter more than five or six seconds, max.
Put it on prime .
Let it sit a few seconds, don't twist the gas.

Did it smell flooded?

Ok so that's interesting...with the new chain the cam lay even until I set the tensioner adjuster onto it. Then it lay slightly high on the right or front. So I undid the adjuster and reset the chain to be slightly high on the rear in hopes that it would "even out" once I set the adjuster to it but doing that it still was higher on the rear mark, as if the one tooth I moved it to was too out of place....hmm. Also I did some measuring around with the starter wire disconnected at the starter  to see what's doing what and from the igniter solid black wire to the solenoid I'm getting 2V on the negative stud....shouldn't that be 0? Thank you for the responses...all info is helpful.

thumps wrote on 06/18/16 at 12:49:08:

The paint blob is not the mark, there should be a scribe line under the blob that precisely indicates where TDC is.  If you can not find that mark, I would go by the piston position.

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Where is this smoke coming from?

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I've had similar readings... different wires... People said bad ground... sure enough, a connector was loose.

OMFG! So I figured out what I did wrong and it's a super boneheaded move. This whole time I've been using the battery cables that came with my trickle charger to "crank" the motor over key word (or words) being "crank", as in Cold Cranking Amps...and the obvious inability of them trickle charger wires to handle the amperage pulse of my Suzuki starting system...a dynamic, not static use...so my fault. I hooked the battery directly in line with its clamps and Wallah! She's back alive and sounding strong! Hardly even needed to be "hand decompressed" too...I'm running a Big Crank battery...I was just worried that hooking the battery directly to my mocked up wire job would be too hard to disconnect if I needed, so I was jumping the battery with my trickle charger cables, and cooking away the conformal coating on them (the smoke). Live and learn moment...couldn't have done any of this patient process of elimination without this forum...it really helped me slow my roll and met out the real problem... , I kept it too stupidly simple...thanks V et. al.